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ISNI and ORCID at La Trobe University
Simon Huggard
Deputy Director, Research & Collections, LTU Library
http://isni.org/isni/0000000427541720
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0365-112X
http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/Identities/AU-VLU0000078774

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Context
• Institutional motivations
• Library decision making
• Researcher behaviour

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Institutional motivations
• Most institutions are trying to manage publications better
• Changing role for the Library
• The need for name identifiers
• Problems with names that we think ISNIs will help to resolve
• Webinar/Discussion with OCLC Sept 2013 – agreed La Trobe
would be a pilot
• ORCID is gaining momentum rapidly in the academic
environment

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Why ISNI?
• Based on “trusted“ library infrastructure (and many years of library data)
• Fills a gap between identifiers in scientific databases (Web of Science, Scopus, etc.)
and humanities/mono publishing
• The ISNI system is data-driven
• Matching against millions of records.
• Data comes from many sources into ISNI
• Doesn’t rely on the academic to claim anything
• Institutional membership – 800 Euros (basic institutional membership)

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Who else is using ISNI?

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Why ORCID?
• Becoming a known identifier in the academic world
• Recently endorsed by: ANDS, ARMS, CAUL, Universities Australia, NHMRC and ARC
• Used by publishers: Thomson Reuters; Elsevier
• Research data registries, research management systems taking this up: DataCite,
Symplectic Elements, PURE
• Institutional membership – $4000 USD (basic institutional membership)

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ISNI work at La Trobe
• ISNI Numbers - initial upload (June 2014)
• Assigned: 1021
• Provisional: 2530
• Non VIAF links: 1563
• VIAF links: 1864
• Total links: 3427
• After unique name assignment (July 2014)
• Assigned: 1704
• After manual work done (October 2014-Jan 2015)
• Assigned : 2255
• 1149 current, active researchers with ISNIs, from 1274 current, active University
researchers in total (90%)

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What does this mean for La Trobe?

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ISNI

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ORCID

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ORCID ISNI interoperability
Statement issued April 2013:
https://orcid.org/blog/2013/04/22/orcid-and-isni-issue-joint-statement-interoperation-
april-2013
MoU signed January 2014:
http://www.isni.org/content/isni-and-orcid-sign-memo-understanding-2014-01
While ISNI and ORCID have different missions and employ different processes for
assigning identifiers …ORCID and ISNI are agreed on the need to aim
for interoperation through linking and of sharing public data between the two
systems

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ORCID ISNI interoperability

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ISNI to ORCID link

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MyPublications – ORCID integration

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What next?
• Communicate to all researchers that the Library is contributing data to support ISNI
identifier assignment and creating ORCIDs on their behalf
• Research Team will be working with academics and graduate researchers to explain
ORCID and ISNI as part of their work to meet with new researchers and support new
profiles of academics.
• Explain what researchers need to do with their ORCID and ISNI.
• Configure our systems to include ORCIDs and ISNIs automatically

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What next?
Currently looking at Symplectic software and working to include ORCID (& ISNI?).
The SHE College will be approached to participate in a pilot with library staff member
and trial assigning ORCID ids or linking Scopus ids.
There will be meetings with Symplectic to discuss this. Need to integrate SAP with
Symplectic to access staff numbers etc., and need to continuously collect data to
avoid missing data with the staff/student turnover each year.
Any new academics/researchers are already contacted to integrate into system. It has
been discussed with HR that the ORCID id is provided when new staff commence
noting public or private setting.

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Key learnings
• Our scholar’s presence and efforts can easily be split across several systems
• Researchers need to know which researcher id systems are University
recommended/preferred to focus their efforts
• We need to work on Scopus author-ids and Thomson Reuters researcher-IDs as well
• Integration in Symplectic Elements and Vivo
• Continue to work with the ISNI-IA and ORCID to encourage further integration
between ISNI and ORCID
• Continue to manage identifiers and integrate them within existing systems at La
Trobe such as : ReDBox/Mint, ResearchOnline, ResearchMaster

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Thank you