The document outlines the establishment and support of the UK ORCID Consortium, which aims to enhance the scholarly communications ecosystem through the adoption of ORCID identifiers. It details the roles of various stakeholders, including Research Councils UK and Jisc, in providing technical and community support for institutions integrating ORCID. The document also highlights initiatives such as user community events, hack days, and the creation of documentation and resources for member institutions.

1. Cultivating ORCIDs in the UK
Balviar Notay and Owen Stephens

2. UK ORCID consortium membership
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3. Sharing the UK experience
»http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/researcher-
identifiers
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4. RCUK join UK ORCID consortium
» Research Councils UK (RCUK) announces it has joined the national consortium for ORCID – the researcher
identifier solution that enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem
– and will be ready to start capturing ORCID identifiers in early 2016.
» The framework agreement will enable RCUK to access the benefits of ORCID at reduced costs and with
enhanced technical support https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/national-consortium-for-orcid-set-to-improve-uk-
research-visibility-and-collaboration-23-jun
» Jisc news item: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/uk-research-information-management-and-discovery-gets-
boost-03-dec-2015
» RCUK news item: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/151203/
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5. Channels for communication
»Signatories and technical leads for each consortium
member
»UK ORCID email list: ORCID-UK@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
»Jisc ORCID service page: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/orcid
»Jisc collections helpdesk:
help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk
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6. Technical & Community Support Coordination
»O.6 staff (Monica Duke) Jisc collections help desk and
ORCID providing community and technical support for
members that sign up to the Jisc ORCID consortium
licence.
»Working with external consultants for additional support:
› Sero and Clax Ltd
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7. What this support coordination includes
› Respond to technical and non technical support
requests
› Gather technical interoperability requirements across
UK universities and share with members.
› Design, organise and facilitate UK ORCID user
community events - forum for networking, sharing of
experiences and collaboration
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8. What this support coordination includes
› Design, organise and facilitate ORCID hack
days to enable development
› Set up a blog to inform and commenting
facilities (early June)
› Create documentation and other tools
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Institutions
Account
managers
Technical and
community
support posts
Collections
help desk
Triaging ORCID Queries
Subject
specialist
ORCID
Jisc website
Jisc (BN, LE
etc)
Queries in Routing
Queries
Queries out
ORCID
Kate Lister
Fay Gooding
help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk
Monica Duke
+ consultants
support@orcid.org
Balviar Notay,
Liam Earney
Jisc collections
(membership) Caroline Mackay
Licensing, pricing or
order question
Set up, systems related
Policy related
Respond to enquiry and copy in Helpdesk by
replying to initial email to track enquiry.
TIER 2
(Query is logged)

10. Creating support resources
»Creating new documentation and tools (also pointing to
existing resources)
› Decision tree to help institutions all the way along the
path of ORCID adoption and integration.
› Creating a public spreadsheet of the member
institutions and their system integrations
› Creating FAQs
› Creating case studies
»Creating a blog to inform and help capture feedback.
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11. Webinars, workshops, events
»Vimeo recordings of 2 on-boarding seminars
› https://vimeo.com/134316770
› https://vimeo.com/146407594
»Planning further workshops
»Planning on developer hack days for developments (Sept
2016)
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12. OpenAccess:The Jisc OA support service
Open Access 12

13. ORCID and Jisc Services
»IRUS/ORCID exploration
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk
»Monitor Local consumes ORCID
data
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/
monitoring-open-access-activity
»Will be looking at feasibility of
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14. Other standards and identifiers
»RIOXX 54 repositories using RIOXX fields. (includes ORCID field)
»Visualisation of RCUK and REF requirements.
»RIOXX and OpenAIRE mapping (CORE testing passing records to
OpenAIRE)
»OpenAIRE/Horizon 2020 guidelines (Jisc feeding into the guidelines)
› July 2016: possible release of literature guidelines.
»COARVocabularies: ResourceTypes and mapping to a number of
languages. Version 1.1 will be released soon.
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15. Other standards and identifiers
»CASRAI UK chapter
»Research data metadata profile
»OrgID work – building on previous reports that were
produced as part of the Jisc CASRAI pilot.
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16. jisc.ac.uk
Contact: Balviar Notay
Scholarly Communications Services
Manager
balviar.notay@jisc.ac.uk
04/04/2016 OA Technical Workshop