ORCID provides a free registry of unique identifiers for researchers, enhancing the visibility and manageability of their work across various systems. With over 875,000 identifiers issued since 2012, it facilitates interoperability in research systems, enabling better data governance and streamlined scholarly communications. ORCID is supported by member organizations and integrates with multiple stakeholders including publishers, universities, and funding agencies.

1. Contact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
orcid.org
ORCID: Connecting Research &
Researchers
Webinar, LIASA-HELIG, 17 September 2014
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
ISNI 0000000138352317
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

2. Name Ambiguity Is a Problem
J. Å. S. Sørensen
J. Aa. S. Sørensen
J. Åge S. Sørensen
J. Aage S. Sørensen
J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
J. Aage Smaerup Sørensen
http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf

3. One researcher may have many
profiles and identifiers
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4. ORCID is a registry and hub
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Repositories
Funders
Higher
Education
and
Employers
Professional
Associations
Publishers
Other
person
identifiers
ORCID provides a free, non-proprietary
registry of
persistent unique public
identifiers for researchers
ISNI
Researcher ID
Scopus Author ID
Internal identifiers
FundRef
GrantID
ISNI
Ringgold ID
Member ID
Abstract ID
DOI
ISBN
Thesis ID
DOI
ORCID APIs enable
exchange between
research data
systems to connect
researchers, works,
organizations, and
other identifiers

5. What are persistent identifiers?
• Numeric or alpha-numeric persistent designations
associated with (resolvable to) a single entity
• Entities can be an organization, person, or piece of
content (artifact)

6. What do IDs do, exactly?
① Enable machine readability
② Disambiguate and enforce uniqueness
③ Enable linking and data integration
In other words,
persistent identifiers provide a
simple basis for digital data governance

7. Digital scholarly communications requires
information be machine readable
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8. • Take 30 seconds to register at
http://orcid.org/register
• Free to researchers
• Individual owns the record and
controls privacy settings
• Works on tablets and phones
• Available in multiple languages
Register for your

9. Distinguish Yourself
Use free tools to
connect your ORCID
identifier to your
name variations,
affiliations, and your
existing works and
funding, both in
ORCID and external
databases including
Scopus and Web of
Science

10. Adoption and Integration
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
Creator
Website
Trusted
Party
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Associations
12%
Over 150 members, from every
sector of the international
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ORCID has issued over 875,000 iDs
since our launch in October 2012.
Integration and use is international.
research community
EMEA
35%
AsiaPac
15%
Americas
50%
Publishing
25%
Universities
& Research
Orgs
45%
Funders
7%
Repositories
& Profile Sys
11%
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Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
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Aug
2012
2013
2014

11. Registry use is international
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ORCID Registry traffic from
African countries represents
about 3% of total usage, with
over 160,000 unique sessions.
Top 15 cities in Africa, by usage:
Cairo
Tunis
Lagos
Algiers
Giza
Cape Town
Pretoria
Alexandria
Abuja
Addis Ababa
Johannesburg
Casablanca
Accra
Nairobi
Rabat

12. v ORCID provides a free, non-proprietary registry of persistent
unique identifiers for researchers, scholars, and analysts
v ORCID iDs are embedded in research systems and ORCID
provides APIs that enable the interoperable exchange of
information between systems
v ORCID code is open source and we support community efforts to
develop tools and services
v ORCID iDs link to other research information identifiers
v ORCID is an independent non-profit organization supported by
member fees
ORCID
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v ORCID record data marked
public by researchers is
published annually

13. ORCID Governance
v Data Governance: ORCID is committed to maintaining persistence of
the ORCID identifier Registry and data in its charge.
v Organization Governance: ORCID is governed by an elected
Board of Directors, majority non-profit, drawn from and representative of
ORCID member organizations. Governance documents are posted
online.
v Community Driven: ORCID Steering and Working Groups and an
Ambassador program are open to the research community.
v Staff: ORCID operations are managed by a full time staff.
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14. How to join
Standard: One organization joins. Option for basic or
premium benefit levels. Discounts for non-profits and multi-year
agreements.
Local consortium: One lead organization coordinates
membership and technical implementation with group
participants. Fee based on number of organizations in the
group and benefit level. Discount for groups of 5 or more.
National consortium: One lead organization coordinates
membership and technical implementation for group
participants. Sliding fee based on national GDP and group
size.
http://orcid.org/about/membership

15. Who is
Integrating
and How?
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• Publishers
• Research Funders
• Professional Associations
• Universities and Research Orgs
• Repositories, CRIS, Metrics Sites
For a list of organizations and integrations see
http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators

16. Adoption “To-Do” List
① Integrate data fields for
persistent identifiers for
people, places, and things into
your systems
② Collect persistent identifiers
during transactions (using
authenticated login, not
typing!) AND use APIs to help
autofill forms
③ Incorporate identifiers into
published metadata
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Integrators Researchers
① Register for an
ORCID iD
② Use it when
submitting papers,
applying for grants,
depositing datasets,
etc.

17. ORCID APIs
• Public API
• Can only access data marked as public
• Can only READ
• Member API
• Registration and token needed
• With permission from user, access data marked as limited
• Can READ, EDIT, APPEND.
• Employer institutions may CREATE
• Can use both APIs in free Sandbox environment
• See Introductory Documentation

18. Case Study 1:
Member site asks
for permissions
from a Scholar
A user establishes a trust relationship
while at a member site
EDIT
APPEND
READ
Scholar reviews the
request and establishes
trust relationships
ADD TO READ
ORCID
Record
Member site becomes
trusted; may add
activities and receive
record updates
ORCID Widget
OAuth 2.0
ORCID Widget
OAuth 2.0
EDIT
APPEND
? READ
API POST / GET
1 2 3

19. Case Study 2:
1 2 3
CREATE
ADD TO
ORCID
Record
Institution creates
An iD for employee
An iD is created by an institution, and then
claimed and managed by the user
EDIT
APPEND
READ
ORCID
Record
Scholar claims the iD,
sets privacy levels,
establishes trust relationships
ADD TO READ
ORCID
Record
Trusted organizations
add activities and
receive updated
Scholar information
API POST ORCID Web Interface API POST / GET

20. Publishing
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Publishers are:
• Requesting iDs at time of
manuscript submission
• Embedding iDs in article
data (print and online)
• Submitting iDs to
CrossRef (over 100K!)
• Large indexes (WOS,
Scopus) support ORCID
• All disciplines represented
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21. Acknowledge Reviewers
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22. “Where possible, it is also
recommended that contributors be
uniquely identifiable, and data uniquely
attributable, through identifiers which
are persistent, non-proprietary, open
and interoperable (e.g. through
leveraging existing sustainable initiatives
such as ORCID for contributor
identifiers and DataCite for data
identifiers).”
European Commission H2020 Grantee Guidelines
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http://biomedicalresearchworkforce.nih.gov/tracking-system.htm#d
Funding Policy

23. Case Study: FCT
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
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iDs created with .pt email domain
12/2/13,
12010
12/2/13,
1866
0
FCT requires grantees to register
for ORCID iD and link to
organization and works
Oct-12 Jan-13 Apr-13 Aug-13 Nov-13 Feb-14
Weekly total Running total
Fundação para a Ciência
e a Tecnologia (FCT) is
using ORCID as a
component of a nation-wide
CRIS eco-system,
enabling interoperability
among multiple research
systems including the
RCAAP national Open
Access repository, the
DeGóis CV system, and
the Authenticus indexed
publications repository

24. Professional Associations
“AGU is implementing ORCIDs in
our member records, editorial
databases, and papers. Having
the ability to uniquely identify
scientists helps the society,
editors, authors, and members in
many ways, from improving
efficiency to providing services
and support.”
Brooks Hanson, Director of Publications,
American Geophysical Union
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6230-7145
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http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/20131029-mcentee

25. Repositories
• DataCite
• DSpace (UMissouri)
• ePrints (UBern)
• EThOS (British Library)
• HUBzero (U Notre Dame)
• Hydra/Fedora (Purdue)
• InSPIRE (CERN)
• Vireo (Texas A&M)
• Reactome
More at
http://orcid.org/blog/2014/03/10/orcid-repositories-
and-researchers
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26. Case Study: DSpace
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ORCID support is scheduled to
become part of the DSpace 5 core,
the new version expected to be
released before the end of 2014. At
that time, DSpace will also release
patches for DSpace 3 and DSpace 4.
Supported ORCID functionality:
• ORCID lookup during manual
submission of new publications
• ORCID lookup for edit
operations on already accepted/
published items in DSpace
• Batch adding of ORCID metadata
using the DSpace metadata CSV
upload facilities.

27. How are
Universities
Integrating?
• Get an ORCID iD and insert it in LDAP system,
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CRIS, dissertation thesis, or directory
• Get Data from an ORCID Record and
export into a CRIS or update a repository
• Enable import of CRIS data into an ORCID
Record
• Link to identifiers in your system
• Create an iD for your faculty, staff, and students
and pre-populate with affiliation and works
information
For more on university integrators see
http://orcid.org/organizations/researchorganizations

28. “We want to use ORCIDs to simplify
the life of Oxford’s researchers for
working with institutional systems and
publishers’ systems by re-using already
available information for publication
data management and reporting.
The motto is: Input once – re-use
often.”
Wolfram Horstmann, Assoc. Director, Bodleian Libraries,
University of Oxford
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-6104
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Universities
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29. Integration Process
Technically, integrating ORCID involves adding
<person ID> and <source> fields to data models,
mapping to ORCID API, and implementing OAuth
and RESTful calls.
Socially, it is critical that researchers are engaged in
the process.
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• Planning Guide:
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/321374-
timeline-for-creating-orcid-ids-via-the-api
• API Overview:
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/180285-
introduction-to-the-orcid-api

30. Case Study: Create/Connect
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31. Case Study: Create/Connect
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http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/orcid-intgration-risuandersson

32. Case Study: Record Creation
Current status: 3212 records created on 15 July, 2014
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http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/johnson-cu-boulderorcidoutreachmeetingslides

33. Case Study: UC Boulder cont’d
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http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/johnson-cu-boulderorcidoutreachmeetingslides

34. Case Study: Access Management
• Supporting $1.3 billion research enterprise
• 2 campuses: separate IT departments,
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• IAM options under discussion:
• ORCID field is added to LDAP; hyperlinked to
orcid.org
• Sponsored program grants system requirement
• Michigan Experts Researcher Profiles
• UM Research Data Repository
• Medical school CV system
http://www.slideshare.net/ORCIDSlides/
westbrooksorcid-140520185706phpapp01
administrations, and cultures
• Library managing project, with Campus IT (ITS) –
core partner for integrating ORCIDS in institutional
access managemet (IAM)

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Case Study: Theses
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In February 2014, Texas A&M University
(TAMU) minted ORCIDs for ~10K
graduate students. They are on the front
line of developments to use
persistent identifiers to link students,
theses, and educational organizations. The
TAMU effort is being led by the library, in
coordination with other campus offices
and divisions, including the Provost’s office
and Graduate School. One component of
their effort has been development of
Library Guides to provide context for the
TAMU rollout of ORCID.

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Case Study: Theses
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http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/151981/ORCIDopoly%20TAMU%20Poster.pdf?sequence=1

37. Case Study: Research Reporting
ORCID at Oxford
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http://www.slideshare.net/
ORCIDSlides/orcid-outreach-
27-52014-s-rumsey4-3
• Challenge of managing research outputs
• > 5000 research active staff
• > 5000 research students
• Estimated 12,000 peer reviewed articles per annum
• Highly devolved institution
• Oxford Person Identifiers Group
• Representatives from Bodleian Libraries; IT Services;
Research Services; Legal Services; Student Administration;
OUP. Project endorsed by the Research Information
Management Sub-Committee of the Research Committee
• Part of Jisc-ARMA ORCID Pilot
• Oxford approach is a lightweight model that
supports control and ownership of personal
information by researchers

38. Case Study: Research Reporting
• First/Last Name
• email
• University of
Oxford ID
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Process of ORCID assignment/linking for Oxford authors
User logs in via SSO
request new ORCID/link
existing ORCID button
ORCID associated with
person in CUD
a) New ORCID: Create ORCID
b) Existing ORCID: Sign in to
ORCID [validation]
Person associated with ORCID
ORCID iD

39. ORCIDwVIVO Integration
Cornell University has integrated VIVO with
ORCID in a way that works for and
can be used in other VIVO instances to link
VIVO iD with ORCID identifier. Available in
VIVO 1.7 in July 2014 and on github ORCID
Java Library.
Support by CRIS systems
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In
Pure,
Authors
can
now
include
their
ORCID
iD
when
creating
reference
data.
If
they
choose
to
import
publication
records
from
Scopus
into
PURE,
the
ORCID
UI
can
be
used
to
make
an
accurate
association
between
the
imported
record
and
speciCic
institutional
authors.
..,also support for ORCID in
DSpace, Profiles, and PeopleSoft

40. Thank you!
• Find out more at http://orcid.org
• More on membership at
http://orcid.org/about/membership
• Access tools to embed ORCID iDs at
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/
• Subscribe to our blog at
http://orcid.org/about/news and follow
@ORCID_Org on Twitter
• Contact the ORCID Executive Director
at l.haak@orcid.org
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