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ORCID: What, Why, How?NISO, April 28, 2016

Alice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement & Supportorcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781 @alicejmeadows

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Names are messy!

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Connecting info by names is complicated

Of the more than 6 million authors in a major journal citations and abstracts database,+2/3 share last name and single initial with another author. An ambiguous name in the same database refers on average to 8 people.

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Uniquely identifying contributors

“The ability to uniquely identify contributors is a deceptively simple concept which, if realised, could

enable forms of real-time understanding of scientific research that up to now have been

extremely costly (if not impossible).”

--Jonathan Kram, WellcomeTrust

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Our vision

ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and

connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.

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The ORCID organization

● Non-profit, non-proprietary, open● Global, interdisciplinary● Independent, community-driven● Supported by organizational memberships

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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish researchers from each other

Member-built integrations for automated links between researchers and their activities/affiliations

A hub for machine-readable connections between identifiers for organizations, funding, outputs, and people

ORCID provides✔ Plumbing for research information

✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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ORCID collaborates with other organizations to ensure adoption and use of research information standards, including persistent

identifiers

Collaborating to support standards

Top 10 benefits for researchers1. Reliably connects them with their contributions and affiliations2. Alleviates mistaken identity3. Saves time – “enter once, re-use often”4. Improves recognition for researchers and their research outputs5. Increases discoverability of their research outputs6. Researchers own and control their record, managing what information is

connected and how it is shared7. More and more systems they already use are connected with ORCID8. Free to register and use9. Easy to connect with affiliations, works, and awards10. Enables researchers to play their part in making the Internet better!

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Registrants: facts and figures ● ~2.2m live ORCID iDs● Associated with ~5.8m DOIs● 435k+ linked to works● 510k+ linked to education● 470k+ linked to employment

Latest stats at: https://orcid.org/statistics (updated weekly)

Top 10 benefits for research orgs1. Improve speed and accuracy of research reporting 2. Maintain connections with researchers despite name/affiliation changes3. Reduce/eliminate need for researcher disambiguation processes4. Enable machine-to-machine updates for researcher reporting5. Strengthen connections/stickiness of researchers to your system6. Validate your researchers’ affiliation, awards, or works – building trust in the

overall research infrastructure7. Learn from other organizations’ experiences and share your own8. Benefit from opportunities for public recognition of good ORCID integrations9. Get involved and help shape ORCID’s future priorities and goals10. Play your part in making the Internet work better!27 April 2016 orcid.org 13

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~500 organizational members230+ member integrations

Funder5% Repository

10%

Association7%

Publishing13%

Research Org.65%

Europe53%

Middle East & Africa

2%

Asia8%

Pacific Rim6%

North America

30%

South America

1%

Integration in research systems

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Collect & Connect goals

• Clarify goals and expectations across sectors• Standardize and improve the user experience • Improve trust in connections between ORCID and other

identifiers • Increase efficiency and quality of integrations • Help achieve ORCID’s vision through a community approach

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Collect & Connect

Collect

Display Connect

Synchronize

Authenticate!

Collect & Connect responsibilities

Collect validated ORCID iDs

Display iDs on your website and include in metadata

Connect information to ORCID records

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Thank You

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