ORCiD @ PTCRISJoão Mendes Moreira http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-2728

Alcino Cunha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2714-8027

PTCRIS

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Mission

• Ensure the creation and sustained development of a national integrated information ecosystem (PTCRIS) to support research management

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Goals• Define the regulatory framework to be adopted by the

various systems

• Coordinate system integration within FCT in accordance with the regulatory framework

• Coordinate the integration of external systems (national and international) with FCT in accordance with the regulatory framework

• Support and promote the usage of the various systems in the national research community

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The ecosystem

CV

OA aggregatorDSpace

OJS

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FCT|SIG

Regulatory framework

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ORCiD @ PTCRIS

1. Provider of unique research identifiers

2. Synchronization hub for research outputs

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Unique IDs

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Current situation• ORCID is mandatory for researchers wanting to

apply for FCT funding

• Around 22.000 researchers have their ORCID registered at FCT|SIG (+63% since last national REF)

• Several other systems can also register the ORCID (for example, around 6000 users have their ORCID registered at the CV management system)

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FCT|SIG

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Synchronization hub

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Our problem

• Research outcomes scattered through various (national and international) services and data formats

• Heavy burden on researchers and managers

• Inconsistent information and impact assessment

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Our goal

• Input once, reuse often!

• Automatic synchronization between services

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A non solution

ORCID

CVResearcher

ID

OA aggregator

DSpace

OJSScopus

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A non solution

• Many synchronization procedures per service

• Implementation and maintainability nightmare

• No clear flow to achieve global consistency

• No consistent ORCID synchronization behavior

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Our solution

ORCID

CVResearcher

ID

OA aggregator

DSpace

OJSScopus

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Our solution

• One synchronization procedure per service

• Easier to implement and maintain

• Clear flow to achieve global consistency

• Consistent behavior across all PTCRIS systems

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Why ORCID?

• High coverage of predefined requirements

• High interoperability with external sources

• High coverage of the national research community

• Sustainable and open source

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More information• An ORCID based synchronization framework for a

national CRIS ecosystem: paper describing the design methodology, presented at the 2015 ORCID CASRAI joint conference

http://f1000research.com/articles/4-181/v1

• PTCRISync v0.4: current specification of the synchronization protocol for ORCID API 2.0

http://ptcris.pt/en/hub-ptcris-en/

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Current situation• Certified implementation of the synchronization protocol

at the CV management system and OA aggregator expected to go live soon (already demoed in Feb 2015)

• Implementations at several local CRIS will follow

• Working with CINECA on a new version of the protocol to be implemented in DSpace CRIS

• Funding database provided by FCT to ÜberResearch (around 2000 national researchers already imported grants to ORCID)

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