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Pablo de Castro

ORCID TSG member

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-1033/ v1pdeca@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

(Thanks to Laure Haak, ORCID CEO)

4th COAR Annual Meeting – Tutorial on Author Persistent Identifiers

Özyeğin University Library, Istanbul

May 8th, 2013

The research community has

lacked the ability to link

researchers and scholars with their

professional activities.

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What is the problem?

• Discoverability within and across databases

• Author record management

• Member and meeting management

• Reviewer selection

• Disclosure and COI

The solution

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097

• 16-digit number

• Expressed as URI

• Compatible with

ISNI ISO 277729

standard

ORCID iD: unique and persistent identifier

for researchers and scholars

ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary,

open, not-for-profit, community-driven

organization. We collaborate with researchers

and organizations across the research community.

Our core mission is to provide an open registry

of persistent unique identifiers for

researchers and scholars AND to automate

linkages to research works by embedding

identifiers in research workflows.

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ORCID Mission

Open identifier and APIs

Public API

• No token or registration needed

• Can only access data marked as public

• Can only READ

Member API

• Registration and token needed

• With permission, can access data marked as limited

• Can READ, EDIT, APPEND. Employers can CREATE

Users control privacy

Individuals manage the privacy settings of

information in their ORCID Record

Accessible by anyone

Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies), Trusted Organization(s)

Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies)

Benefits to the community

Unique and persistent iD can be used throughout

career across professional activities and affiliations

ORCID iD is embedded in works metadata,

independent of platform

Improved system interoperability – across discipline,

organization, and country

• Reduced reporting workload for researchers

• Automates repository deposition

• Supports institutional reporting

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For benefits to be realized…

• Researchers need to see the benefit of

creating ORCID iDs AND must create or claim

an ORCID Account

• Research information processes and systems

need to adopt ORCID as a standard person

identifier AND embed ORCID iDs AND link

back with the ORCID Registry

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Use is international

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As of May 3, ORCID had

131,143 registered users.

Steady growth since launch

Country / Territory Visits % of Visits

United States 74130 17.4%

UK 29546 6.9%

China 28054 6.6%

Spain 23766 5.6%

Italy 20698 4.9%

Brazil 19638 4.6%

Germany 17825 4.2%

India 17802 4.2%

Australia 15345 3.6%

Japan 14564 3.4%

France 12627 3.0%

Canada 9744 2.3%

Russia 7596 1.8%

Portugal 7359 1.7%

Egypt 6726 1.6%

Netherlands 6571 1.5%

Malaysia 6087 1.4%

Turkey 5342 1.3%

South Korea 5184 1.2%

Taiwan 5140 1.2%

Iran 5094 1.2%

Sweden 4840 1.1%

Poland 4582 1.1%

Switzerland 4551 1.1%

Embedding is widespread

University IR/CRIS systems (Boston Univ, Oviedo, Avedas...)

Manuscript submission (Nature, Hindawi, APS, Copernicus…)

Grant applications (NIH, Wellcome Trust…)

Linkage with repositories (CrossRef, EBI-EMBL…)

Linkage with other IDs (RID, Scopus…)

Exploring integration in association membership and conference

systems, and ORCID has been proposed as a component of both

FIM and COI systems.

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1. Embedding in manuscript submission and

production

2. Linking to CRIS and importing

information

3. Linking to external identifier

4. Consuming data to generate usage

statistics

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Example workflows

…last year’s launch of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) facility is

to be welcomed. The core function of ORCID — a community collaboration — is to

assign every researcher a number and a web page, thereby providing a unique

identifier and so disambiguation. The web page enables the researcher to record

their contributions: papers they have published and — a facility to come — their

research grants and patents. Nature journals authors can link their ORCID to their

account in our manuscript submission and tracking system, and we will soon be

publishing authors’ ORCIDs in papers. 12

1. Manuscript submission

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Import publications

from ORCID Record

Link between

profle and

ORCID iD

2. CRIS system integration

3. Linking to other IDs

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Create an ORCID

iD or associate

existing ORCID iD

with ResearcherID

Exchange profile

and/or publication

data between

ORCID and

ResearcherID

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4. Generating usage statistics

Q1 Launch Ambassador Program

Publish Open Source Code

Call for Developers: May Codefest

Workflow for Localization

New Features: Multi Email

Standard Integration: Publishers

Premium Benefits: Reports, Webhooks

Q2 Train Ambassadors

Build out methods for Open Source Cmty

Host May Outreach Mtg and Codefest

Launch Localized UI #1 (ORC)

New Features: Affiliations, Grants, Proxies

Std Integration: External IDs, Repositories

Std Framework: Search and Import

Q3 Start work on claim store reqts

Call for Developers: October Codefest

Launch UI in Spanish, French, Chinese

New Features: Patents, Cross-link works

Standard Integration: Universities

Q4 Complete work on claim store reqts

Host October Outreach Mtg and Codefest

New Features: Pictures, Author linking, Invite

Std Integration: Funders

2013 roadmap

http://orcid.org/orcid-outreach-meeting-symposium-and-codefest-may-2013