This document discusses using ORCID identifiers to track research data management and sharing. It covers linking ORCID profiles to institutional and third-party data repositories like Zenodo, Dataverse, and Figshare using services like DataCite. Populating ORCID records through DataCite's auto-update feature allows researchers to identify datasets stored in external repositories via their ORCID profile.

1. ORCID and RDM
Nick Sheppard
Open Research Advisor, Leeds
University Library
@OpenResLeeds
research@library.leeds.ac.uk

2. ORCID and RDM
• Institutional data repositories
• 3rd party repositories (OAauth)
– Zenodo (and Github)
– Harvard Dataverse
– OSF (Open Science Framework)
• Funders and Open Research
– Wellcome Open Research
• Publishers and RDM
– Mendeley Data
– Springer Nature
– Figshare / Datadryad
Policy on data, software and materials
management and sharing
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/guidance/p
olicy-data-software-materials-
management-and-sharing

3. ORCID and Datacite
• Linking is fiddly?
–https://support.datacite.org/docs/how-to-
activate-orcid-auto-update
First, go to the DataCite Profile Service and enable the
ORCID auto-update. Please see a detailed description on
our DataCite Profile pages.
After you have enabled the ORCID auto-update in the Profile
Service, you will be prompted in your ORCID profile to allow
DataCite to automatically add works to your ORCID record.
Your approval here will finalize the your registration for auto-
update. You can revoke your permission for this auto-update
at any time in the settings of your ORCID profile.

4. Where’s All the Data?
Research Data Leeds
NERC data centres
Figshare
Zenodo
OSF
Datadryad

5. University of Leeds – A Case Study
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Data registry?
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NERC data centres?
Protein Data Bank

6. Populating ORCID records with repository content via DataCite’s
’auto-update’ feature (University of Cambridge)

7. Using ORCID to identify datasets in 3rd party repositories?
• ORCID API?
• Requires ORCID to be linked with
Datacite / populated with dataset
records
• Datacite API - https://api.datacite.org/
e.g. https://api.datacite.org/events?orcid=0000-0003-1904-
2473&include=subj,obj
• Requires ORCID to be used
systematically in repository workflows