An update of the current Australian ORCID Consortium development.

1. Paul Wong
ORCID in Australia
Senior Data Management Specialist
INORMS Melbourne, September 2016

2. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) makes
Australia’s research data assets more valuable for
researchers, research institutions and the nation.

3. What is ORCID?
Unique identification of researchers is difficult for research
institutions, publishers, funding bodies and researchers themselves,
making it problematic to accurately link research publications, data
and other research activities to the right researcher.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) is a non-profit
organization that addresses this problem by maintaining a global
open registry of persistent and unique identifiers for researchers.
Since the launch of service in October 2012, the number of IDs has
exceeded 2.5 million and ORCID

4. Who is Behind Australian ORCID Consortium?

5. ORCID in Australia: the Last 2 Years
First National
ORCID
Roundtable
Development
of Joint
Statement of
Principles
Second ORCID
Roundtable.
Release of
Joint
Statement.
Development
of a
Consortium
Model
Draft Model
release and call
for EOI
39 Australian
institutions
confirmed EOI
40 Australian
institutional
members
CAUL
ANDS
CAUL
ANDS
ARMS
UA
CAUL
ANDS
ARMS
UA
AAF
CAUDIT
July 2014 April 2015Dec 2014 Aug 2015 Feb 2016Sept 2015

6. Cheese…
40 Australian institutional members:
Consortium Lead AAF, Universities, Funders, Publicly Funded Research
Agency (CSIRO), Medical Research Institute (Heart Research Institute)
Photo credit: Dr. Wee-Ming Boon, NHMRC
15 Feb 2016 Australian ORCID Consortium Launch

7. Why the Strong Uptake?
• Took a national, sector wide approach to data integration – high quality,
integrated data (linking persons to grants, publications, research data, software
and other research achievements) is needed to improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of the Australian R&D ecosystem across the board
• Collaborated and consulted extensively with key peak bodies in the process:
funding agencies, research offices, libraries, and IT
• Got endorsement and commitment from the senior executives of institutions
• Commercial publishers also expressed interest (but legally cannot be a
Consortium member) – some journals ask for ORCID during the manuscript
submission process
• Other commercial partners (Digital Science, Thomson, Elsevier etc.) are also
gearing up for the opportunities

8. The Current State of Play in Australia
37 members have initiated ORCID activities
 Planning - 10 (vendor or custom integration)
 Gone live – 15 (8 vendor, 7 custom integration)
 Sand Box Credential – the rest (testing, evaluating etc.)
First Step: Collect and Connect
 connect researchers to ORCID and collect their OCRID
 https://orcid.org/content/collect-connect
One Australian university is writing back to ORCID records

9. Community Development
Webinars: AAF, ANDS
AAF ORCID Resource Site
https://aaf.edu.au/orcid/reso
urces.html
AAF Greenhouse

10. Investment and Benefit Realisations: The
Long Game
Institutional ORCID Implementation
and Cost-Benefit Analysis Report, p32 JISC
(Joint Information System Committee UK),
2015, CC BY 4.0 licence.
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6025/2/Jisc-ARMA-ORCID_final_report.pdf
High value benefit realisations are on a
3 year horizon from the completion of
implementation

11. Senior Data Management Specialist
Paul.Wong@ands.org.au
Paul Wong
With the exception of third party images or where otherwise indicated, this work
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ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.
Monash University leads the partnership with the Australian
National University and CSIRO.