The document summarizes an ORCID outreach meeting discussing best practices for integrating ORCID identifiers into research workflows. It lists the ORCID board of directors and discusses use cases like author disambiguation. The meeting covered integration of ORCIDs by publishers, funders, and societies. It notes Harvard systems integrating or planning to use ORCIDs, including their human resources system and institutional repository. ORCID identifiers could benefit individuals and institutions in curating scholarly records and provide institutions more information on contributions.

1. ORCID OUTREACH MEETING
Best practices for the integration of ORCID
identifiers into research workflows
Amy Brand, Harvard University
October 30, 2013

2. ORCID Board of Directors
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Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust
Micah Altman, Massachusetts institute of Technology
Amy Brand, Harvard University
Craig Van Dyck, Wiley-Blackwell
Thomas Hickey, Online Computer Library Center
Dave Kochalko, Thomson Reuters (Treasurer)
Salvatore Mele, CERN
Ed Pentz, CrossRef (Chair)
Howard Ratner, ORCID Co-Founder
Bernie Rous, Association for Computing Machinery
Chris Shillum, Elsevier
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics
Todd Vision, University of North Carolina
Simeon Warner, Cornell University

5. Among the use cases identified…
• Cluster all the works of a particular person for
search purposes
• Disambiguation and attribution
• Stats about authors — “how many times has this
author tried and been rejected from journal X?”
• Self presentation — how can I effectively present
myself and my work to the world?
• Link authors and institutions
• Enhance the peer review process
• Associate connected authors with one another

6. Today’s meeting
• Integration of ORCID identifiers by
publishers, research funders, and
professional societies

8. Harvard systems integrating or
planning to use ORCIDs
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Human resource system (PeopleSoft)
Institutional repository (DASH)
Identity Management System
Student Information System
Faculty profiles (OpenScholar, Catalyst
Profiles)

9. ORCID entry field in Harvard’s human resource system

10. System will provide ORCID-HUID pairs for use in Harvard applications, such
as DASH open access repository

11. Opportunities
• Individuals and institutions need better tools
for curating and networking their own record
of scholarship
• Institutions need more information about
scholarly contribution