The document discusses ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a nonprofit organization working to create a global registry of researcher identifiers and profiles. It notes that ORCID has over 275 participating organizations and aims to uniquely identify individual researchers and link them to their contributions, such as publications, datasets, and patents. The document outlines ORCID's 10 principles, key constituents, timeline and development progress, and compares ORCID to other researcher identification initiatives.

1. ORCID Update &
Other Researcher Identifiers
CrossRef Annual Members Meeting
15 November 2011
Howard Ratner (@hratner)
Chairman, ORCID, Inc.
CTO, Executive VP, Nature Publishing Group

3. 10 Principles
1. ORCID will work to support the creation of a
permanent, clear and unambiguous record of
scholarly communication by enabling reliable
attribution of authors and contributors.
2. ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic,
national and institutional, boundaries.
3. Participation in ORCID is open to any organization
that has an interest in scholarly communications.
4. Access to ORCID services will be based on
transparent and non-discriminatory terms posted
on the ORCID website.
5. Researchers will be able to create, edit, and
maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge.

4. 10 Principles
6. Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID
profile data.
7. All profile data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will
be available in standard formats for free download (subject to the
researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a year and released
under the CC0 waiver.
8. All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open
Source Software license approved by the Open Source Initiative. For the
software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.
9. ORCID identifiers and profile data (subject to privacy settings) will be made
available via a combination of “no charge” and “for a fee” APIs and services.
Any fees will be set to ensure the sustainability of ORCID as a not-for-profit,
charitable organization focused on the long-term persistence of the ORCID
system.
10. ORCID will be governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of
stakeholders, the majority of whom are not-for-profit, and will strive for
maximal transparency by publicly posting summaries of all board meetings
and annual financial reports.

5. Key Constituents
Why?
Joins faculty
Joins student body Helps track output of
Researcher
faculty and students
Helps perform research
assessment of grantees
Applies for grant
Streamline data input
Creates author links
- to publications
- to collaborators
Submits - to other forms of
Manuscript communication

6. 275+ Participants

7. Newest
Participants
(Sep-Oct 2011)

8. ORCID is open to any organization with an
interest in scholarly communication

9. ORCID transcends discipline, geographic,
national and institutional boundaries
276 participating organizations as of 3 November 2011

11. Timeline 2010
Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Build Sandbox
Alpha Prototyping
ORCID Members
Demonstration and
Alpha Testing
Organization
Creation
Wellcome /MIT
Survey
Principles/Scope Defined
Alpha Testing
Profile Exchange Research & Development

12. Timeline 2011-12
Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012
Build Phase 1 - Semantico
API information
released 11/11
Start Registering ORCIDs
Build Phase 2
Obtain Loans & Sponsorship Staff
Sponsorship Drive 1 Start Collecting Fees
Drive 2 Hired
VIVO Technology Research $2 million
Mellon achieved
Business/Marketing
Research
Profile Exchange Research & Development

13. Researcher Profile
Updated
ORCID<->DOI pairings Researcher
submitted to ORCID Registers
Author - ORCID - Publisher -
CrossRef - Interaction
Metadata, along with ORCID passed to
ORCID manuscript submission
deposited to CrossRef system
Content Published Manuscript processed

14. Development Progress: Approach
Alpha Phase 1 Phase 1.x and 2
• Completed Spring 2010 • Development underway • Development 2012+
• Self-claim oriented • Development by Semantico • Will address assertions by wide
• Limited light integration with a under contract with ORCID group of third parties
few participant services • Development led by Geoff • Will extend capabilities for
• Demonstration capabilities Bilder alternate roles and other types
transitioning to ORCID source • Will provide core for future of contributions
code by end of year production service • Will provide mechanisms for
• Will focus on currently active automatic de-duplication of
researchers third party donated records

15. Development: Phase 1 Features
Core ResearcherID.com functionality plus:
• Institutional seeding of profiles
(i.e. batch upload, alerting)
• Delegated management of profiles
• Profile exchange into grant/manuscript submission
systems
• Fine-grained control of privacy settings at the claim level
– public = “share with anybody”
– protected = “share with parties authorized via OAuth”
– private = “do not share”
• ORCID identifier resolution (both via GUI and REST API)
• Metadata search (both GUI and REST API)
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16. Self-asserted +socially-validated +organizationally-asserted identity
=more credible assertion
Self-Asserted Socially-Validated Organizationally-Validated
Identity Identity Identity
Disambiguated
Identity

17. Phase 1 Disambiguation Concept

18. Assertion Collection Concept
Top Level Partners

19. More Assertions = More Credibility

20. Development Progress: Query API
Query API will support the following query types
Name Key Returned Description
Bio ORCID Profile metadata Given a party, give me name and
affiliation data
Works ORCID List of work Given a party, tell me what works
metadata they have contributed to
Full ORCID Profile metadata, Given an party, tell me what works
work metadata and they have contributed to, name and
ORCIDs affiliation data
Work Work identifiers ORCIDs & Given a work, tell me what parties are
(e.g. DOIs) associated responsible for it
metadata
Search ORCID, Work ORCIDs & Given whatever metadata I have, give
identifiers, or associated me a ranked list of potential parties
profile metadata metadata identified by that metadata

21. Development Approach: OAuth
• API document also addresses OAuth integration with external sites
• OAuth development will leverage work done by Gudmundur Thorisson on VIVO-ORCID
mini-grant
• ORCID will provide a stand-alone server code set with sample responses for integration
development of community partner sites.

22. ORCID Phase 1 in Development for
Q2 2012
Running on
“localhost”

26. Brown University
Psychoceramics
Professor

27. Brown
University

28. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
• Contributor ID (CrossRef)
(http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2009/02/an_interview_about_author_ids.html)
– prototype concept project of CrossRef whose learnings have been rolled into ORCID (general
science)
– CrossRef is an ORCID participant and board member
• Scopus Author Identifier
(http://help.scopus.com/robo/projects/schelp/h_autsrch_intro.htm)
– standalone commercial service (general science)
– Elsevier is an ORCID participant, board member, and Business and Technical Working Group
member
• ResearcherID (Thomson Reuters) (http://www.researcherid.com/)
– standalone service that provided much of the basis for ORCID (general science)
– T-R is an ORCID participant, board member, and Business and Technical Working Group member
• RePeC (Research Papers in Economics) (http://www.repec.org)
– standalone not-for-profit service (Economics)
– RePeC is an ORCID participant and active Technical Working Group member
• Names Project (http://names.mimas.ac.uk)
– standalone not-for-profit project backed by JISC (UK government)
– JISC is an ORCID participant and Technical Working Group member

29. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
• VIVO (http://www.vivo.org)
– NIH funded national network of scientists run by institutions. (Biomedicine)
– VIVO software installed locally and provides semantic web-compliant date into network
– ORCID participant and funder
• ArXiv author identifiers (http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers)
– standalone service (Physics)
– Cornell is an ORCID participant and board member
• International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) (http://www.isni.org)
– separate initiative started by RROs for RROs. Identifies everything including fictional names and names of
things (think boats)
– Supported by Proquest/Bowker
– ORCID is trying to find a way to engage with ISNI in a mutually beneficial way
• Lattes (http://lattes.cnpq.br/english)
– Used by Brazilian MCT [Science and Technology Ministry], FINEP [Projects and Studies Financing],
CAPES/MEC [Personal Improvement Coordination/Ministry of Education], and all institutional actors, such as
the Brazilian scientific community, as a curricular information system. (Brazilian Government)
– evaluation of competences of candidates to scholarships and/or research support
– selection of consultants, members of committees and advising groups
– VIVO participant and in discussions with ORCID
• Digital Author Identifier (DAI)
– http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/themas/openonderzoek/infrastructuur/Pages/digitalauthoridentifierdai.as
px
– a new one! Not affiliated with ORCID

30. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
• Society Initiatives
– ACM Digital Library
– AIP UniPhy
– American Chemical Society
– IEEE
– …
• NLM PubMed Author Profile
• Google Academic Profiles
• Microsoft Academic Search
More information found at Martin Fenner’s Blog:
http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/author-identifier-overview/

32. What Makes ORCID Different?
• Only not-for-profit contributor identifier initiative dedicated to an
open and global service focused on scholarly communication
• ORCID is backed by a non-profit organization with over
275 participants behind it
• ORCID is backed by many different stakeholders
• Publishers are an important ORCID stakeholder but are just one part
• ORCID is serious about building an open system
• ORCID is the only researcher identifier that is not limited to
discipline, institution or geographic area
• ORCID is the one to bridge them all by registering the identifiers of
all other relevant standalone services (silos big and small)

33. Come Join Us
Howard Ratner
h.ratner@orcid.org
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