ORCID presentation by Laure Haak at the DataCite Summer Meeting, 2013

1. orcid.org
Contact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Connecting Research and Researchers
DataCite Summer Meeting,Washington DC 20 Sept 2013
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

2. Why use ORCID?
• J. Å. S. Sørensen
• J.Aa. S. Sørensen
• J. Å. S. Sorensen
• J.Aa. S. Sorensen
• J. Å. S. Soerensen
• J.Aa. S. Soerensen
• Jens Å. S. Sørensen
• Jens Aa. S. Sørensen
• Jens Å. S. Sorensen
• Jens Aa. S. Sorensen
• Jens Å. S. Soerensen
• Jens Aa. S. Soerensen
• J. Åge S. Sørensen
• J.Aage S. Sørensen
• J. Åge S. Sorensen
• J.Aage S. Sorensen
• J. Åge S. Soerensen
• J.Aage S. Soerensen
• Jens Åge S. Sørensen
• Jens Aage S. Sørensen
• Jens Åge S. Sorensen
• Jens Aage S. Sorensen
• Jens Åge S. Soerensen
• Jens Aage S. Soerensen
An illustrative example: Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen
• J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
• J.Aage Smaerup Sørensen
• J. Åge Smarup Sorensen
• J.Aage Smarup Sorensen
• J. Åge Smaerup Soerensen
• J.Aage Smaerup Soerensen
• Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen
• Jens Aage Smaerup Sørensen
• Jens Åge Smarup Sorensen
• Jens Aage Smarup Sorensen
• Jens Åge Smærup Soerensen
• Jens Aage Smaerup Soerensen
And on and on it goes …

3. What is your ORCID iD?
• Unique and persistent
identifier
• 16-digit number
• Expressed as HTTP URI
• Compatible with ISO
standard
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4. Benefits to the community
v Unique and persistent ORCID iD can be used
throughout career, across professional activities and
affiliations
v ORCID iD is embedded ex ante (and for existing
works, ex post) in works metadata
v Embedding improves system interoperability – across
discipline, organization, and country
• Reduced reporting workload for researchers
• Automates updates for researchers and organizations
• Supports institutional reporting and evaluation
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5. v We provide an open registry of persistent unique
identifiers for researchers, and APIs for the
community to embed identifiers in research systems
and workflows
v ORCID is an independent non-profit organization
supported by member fees
v Data marked public by researchers is published
annually by ORCID under a CC0 waiver
v ORCID code is available on the GitHub open
source repository and we support community
efforts to develop tools and services
How do we do it?
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6. User Privacy
• Information in an ORCID Record has a privacy setting,
which can be set by the account owner or proxy.
• Account information (settings, permissions) is
accessible by the account owner
Accessible by anyone
Accessible by Account Owner,
Trusted Organization(s)
Accessible by Account Owner
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7. 0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Website
OAuth
Growth since launch
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ORCID has issued over
280,000 identifiers since our
launch in October 2012

8. Nature journals authors can link their ORCID to their account
in the manuscript submission and tracking system, and they are
publishing authors’ ORCIDs in papers.
Manuscript submission
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9. Grant applications: NIH
Import information
from ORCID record
Link grant application to
ORCID identifier
NIH launching ScienCV
grant application system
with ORCID iDs this month
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10. Profile system integration
Add ORCID iD to
university personnel
system
Boston University is creating ORCID records for their faculty (opt-
out) and students (opt-in). They envision ORCID iDs as part of
the university personnel system, access management, DSpace
repository, thesis submission, and for tracking trainees on grants.
http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/boston-univ-oxford-orcid-outreach
Transfer data from
Profiles to ORCID
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11. Registry use is international
• 25 countries >10,000
unique visitors
• 63 countries >1,000
unique visitors
• Registry supports
multiple character sets
• Content in Spanish,
French, English, and
Chinese
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Country
Visits
%
USA
182085
17.0%
China
96606
9.0%
UK
64884
6.1%
India
56644
5.3%
Spain
50691
4.7%
Italy
45210
4.2%
Brazil
44529
4.2%
Germany
42244
3.9%
Japan
37204
3.5%
Australia
34441
3.2%
France
28591
2.7%
Canada
24568
2.3%
Iran
18683
1.7%
South
Korea
18348
1.7%
Russia
17965
1.7%
Sweden
16841
1.6%
Turkey
15546
1.5%
Portugal
15136
1.4%
Malaysia
15076
1.4%
Egypt
15065
1.4%
Netherlands
14785
1.4%
Taiwan
14372
1.3%
Poland
10692
1.0%
Mexico
10388
1.0%
Switzerland
10310
1.0%
Greece
7787
0.7%
Saudi
Arabia
7507
0.7%
Romania
7420
0.7%
Belgium
7094
0.7%

12. “Encourage
adop5on
of
unique
persistent
researcher
IDs:
...
The
ORCID
system
also
will
allow
individuals
to
idenYfy
their
research
output
and
create
a
registry
of
IDs.
SciENcv
will
include
a
uYlity
that
make
it
easy
for
users
to
obtain
an
ORCID
and
to
link
it
to
their
publicaYons
and
grants.”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/
di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/orcid.aspx
http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2013/01/30/
slutrapport-fran-projekt-
forfattarindentifikatorer/
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13. ORCID and Open Science
ORCID is one component of a community-
wide effort to develop and implement open
standards that support data sharing and
participation in open science.
v EuroCRIS and CASRAI: standards for
exchange of administrative research data
v ODIN Project (DataCite, British Library, CERN,
ANDS, Cornell, Dryad): standards and
persistent identifiers for citation of
research data
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14. ODIN aims to build on the success of DataCite and
ORCID by designing an ‘awareness layer’ for
persistent author and object identifiers, ultimately to
stabilise:
• References to a data object;
• Tracking of use and reuse;
• Links between a data object, subsets, articles,
access, and every person involved in its lifecycle
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http://odin-project.eu/mission/

15. ODIN is hosting its first year
conference and CodeSprint,
October 15-17. Register at:
http://odin-project.eu/2013/08/01/
update-on-codesprint-and-1st-
year-conference/
Learn More!
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Come join us at CERN in
Geneva, October 15-17 to learn
more about ODIN and our
projects to demonstrate the
potential of the identifier
“awareness layer”.

16. Connecting ORCID and DataCite
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http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org

17. Workflow: linking with data
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18. Workflow: linking with data
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19. •Our website: http://orcid.org
•Membership: http://orcid.org/about/membership
•Integrating iD: http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators
•Subscribe to our blog http://orcid.org/newsletter/subscriptions and
follow us @ORCID_Org on Twitter
•Join us at the ODIN codesprint and the ORCID meetings
•http://odin-project.eu/2013/08/01/update-on-codesprint-and-1st-year-
conference/
•https://orcid.org/content/orcid-outreach-meeting-october-2013
•Contact ORCID at l.haak@orcid.org
More information

20. Interoperability with ISNI
• Joint statement on interoperation
• 3-part technical implementation plan
• link ISNIs with ORCID records (October 2013)
• create tools to harvest document metadata from
relevant databases
• implement authenticated search and linkage of
ORCID iDs with ISNI records, and test the
feasibility of allowing review and validation of ISNI
records.
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