The PTCRIS program from the FCT|FCCN aims to ensure the creation and sustained development of a national integrated information ecosystem, to support research management according to the best international standards and practices. Central to this framework is the synchronization framework PTCRISync that relies on ORCID as a central hub for information exchange between the various national systems and international systems. PTCRISync will enable researchers to register a given research output at one of the interconnected national systems, and automatically propagate that output to the remaining ones, thus ensuring global consistency of the stored information.

1. ORCiD @ PTCRIS
João Mendes Moreira http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-2728
Alcino Cunha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2714-8027

2. PTCRIS
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3. Mission
• Ensure the creation and sustained development
of a national integrated information ecosystem
(PTCRIS) to support research management
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4. 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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5. The ecosystem
CV
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJS
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FCT|SIG

6. Regulatory framework
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7. ORCiD @ PTCRIS
1. Provider of unique research identifiers
2. Synchronization hub for research outputs
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8. Unique IDs
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9. 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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10. FCT|SIG
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11. Synchronization hub
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12. 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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13. Our goal
• Input once, reuse often!
• Automatic synchronization between services
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14. A non solution
ORCID
CV
Researcher
ID
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJSScopus
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15. 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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16. Our solution
ORCID
CV
Researcher
ID
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJSScopus
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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