ORCID provides a summary of its status and plans. It has issued over 700,000 identifiers since launching in 2012. Integration is international, with over 130 member organizations from publishing, universities, funders, and associations. Standards help enable interoperability between identifiers for people, content, and organizations. Universities are integrating ORCID identifiers by including them in directories, CRIS systems, and publications. Publishers are embedding identifiers in publications. Funders like Wellcome Trust are integrating identifiers into grant applications. ORCID aims to connect researchers with their works and organizations through its identifiers and APIs.

1. orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
ORCID Status and Plans
ORCID Outreach Meeting, 21 May 2014
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

2. Addressing Name
Ambiguity
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
“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, Univ Oxford
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-6104
“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, Dir Publications,
American Geophysical Union
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6230-7145

3. Wellcome Trust OA Study
“No naming authority was imposed on the file, so entities have a variety
of names. For instance, the American Chemical Society is referred to in a
number of ways — ACS, ACS Publications, American Chemical Society,
and The American Chemical Society, among others. PLOS ONE is listed
in a similar variety of ways, as are most of the publishers and journals
with multiple entries…..By allowing authors to freestyle the name of the
payee, we are creating a very loose data source for analysis.”
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/03/21/wellcome-money-in-this-example-of-open-
access-funding-the-matthew-effect-dominates/
..for more than people

4. Interoperability requires
agreement and use of shared
standards and ability to resolve
data entities for persons, places,
and content
Disconnected Data
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Other
Identifiers
Funders
Higher
Education
and
Employers
Professional
Associations
Repositories
Publishers
ORCID is a hub
ORCID connects
researchers with their
works (papers, grants,
datasets, and more),
organizations, and
other identifiers
ORCID APIs enable
exchange between
research data systems
ISNI
Researcher ID
Scopus Author ID
Internal identifiers
FundRef
GrantID
ISNI
Ringgold ID
Member ID
Abstract ID
DOI
ISBN
Thesis ID
DOI
(accept many more)

6. • CASRAI provides harmonized
terminology & object definitions for
research management entities such as
persons, projects, etc.
• CERIF provides data format for storage &
exchange
• Organizations including ORCID, ISNI,
Ringgold, CrossRef, DataCite provide
persistent identifiers for people, places,
and content
Shared Standards
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7. What are standard
identifiers?
• Numeric or alpha-numeric persistent designations
associated with a single entity
• Entities can be an institution, person, or piece of
content

8. …and what do they do,
exactly?
Disambiguate and enforce
uniqueness
Enable linking and data integration
In other words, identifiers provide a
simple basis for data governance

9. Adoption and Integration
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ORCID has issued over 700,000 iDs
since our launch in October 2012.
Integration and use is international.
EMEA
35%
America
s
50%
AsiaPac
15%
Over 130 members, from
every sector of the
international research
community
Publishing
25%
Univ &
Research Org
41%
Funders
7%
Associations
15%
Repos and
Profile Sys
12%
-
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
Creator
Website
Trusted Party

10. Broad international usage
• 50 countries >10,000
unique visitors
• 91 countries >1,000
unique visitors
• Registry supports
multiple character sets
• Content in Spanish,
French, English,
Chinese, and Korean
(adding Portuguese,
Japanese, and
Russian in 2014)
25 May 2014 10orcid.org
Country Sessions %
USA 552956 16%
China 339994 10%
India 195203 6%
Portugal 188492 5%
UK 187704 5%
Spain 158594 5%
Italy 124642 4%
Brazil 119004 3%
Germany 117618 3%
Japan 103341 3%
France 88213 3%
Australia 88090 3%
Canada 73997 2%
Iran 67749 2%
Russia 66830 2%
South Korea 66321 2%
Turkey 56693 2%
Vietnam 48241 1%
Taiwan 47127 1%
Sweden 46469 1%
Malaysia 46431 1%
Netherlands 44577 1%
Egypt 38354 1%
Poland 32941 1%
Mexico 31522 1%
Switzerland 31100 1%
Saudi Arabia 23468 1%
Belgium 22980 1%
Greece 21861 1%
Ukraine 20609 1%

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

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“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
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h202
0/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-
guide_en.pdf
http://biomedicalresearchworkforce.nih.gov/tracking-system.htm#d
Funding policy
“Greater precision and transparency of the
research outputs linked to a particular funder
or grant is vital to help us better understand
the impact of our funding.”
Liz Allen, Head of Evaluation, Wellcome Trust
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-3168

13. Adoption in Portugal
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12/2/13,
1866
12/2/13,
12010
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Oct-12 Jan-13 Apr-13 Aug-13 Nov-13 Feb-14
iDs created with .pt email domain
Weekly total Running total
FCT requires grantees to register
http://grandirblog.blogspot.se/2014/02/building-pioneering-functionality.htm
Autism Speaks, US Department of Energy, US Food and Drug Administration, Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Qatar National
Research Foundation, US National Institutes of Health, UK National Institute of Health
Research, Wellcome Trust

14. Grant applications: Wellcome
Trust
Add your ORCID
identifier during the
grant application
process
Wellcome Trust
has integrated
ORCID iDs into its
eGrants
application
system.

15. “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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Professional associations

16. Embedding iD in publication
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17. “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

18. How are
Universities
Integrating?
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For more on university integrators see
http://orcid.org/organizations/researchorgan
izations
• Get an ORCID iD and insert it in LDAP
system, 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
Boston Univ, Brunel, CalTech, Cambridge Univ,
Chalmers Univ Tech, Charles Darwin Univ,
Chinese Academy of Sciences Library, CERN,
Cornell Univ, EMBL (EBI), FHCRC, Glasgow
Univ, Harvard Univ, IFPRI, Karolinska Inst,
KACST, KISTI, Consorcio Madroño,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, MIT, MSKCC,
National Institute of Informatics, National Taiwan
Univ College of Medicine, National Taiwan
Normal Univ, NYU Langone Medical Center,
Oxford University, Penn State, Purdue Univ,
Riga Technical Univ, SUNY-Stonybrook,
Stockholm Univ, Texas A&M Univ, Univ Bern,
Univ. Cadiz, Univ Carlos III de Madrid, Univ
Oviedo, Univ Zaragoza, Univ College London,
Univ Colorado, Univ Hong Kong, Univ Kansas,
Univ Manchester, Univ Michigan, Univ Missouri,
Univ New South Wales, Univ Politécnica Madrid,

19. • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award supports ORCID
implementation by US universities and professional
associations http://orcid.org/content/adoption-and-
integration-program
• Jisc and ARMA launching ORCID pilot program for UK
Higher Education Institutions; awardees to be announced in
May.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/201
4/03/orcid.aspx
University Workflows
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20. Repository Integration
• DataCite
• DSpace (UMissouri)
• ePrints (UBern)
• EThOS (British Library)
• HUBzero (U Notre Dame)
• Hydra/Fedora (Purdue)
• InSPIRE (CERN)
• Vireo (TAMU)
• Reactome
More at
http://orcid.org/blog/2014/03/10/orcid-
repositories-and-researchers
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21. Support by CRIS vendors
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22. To date, over 18,000 records have been created by
univerities on behalf of their researchers. The claim rate
is ~36%.
ORCID is a researcher-driven tool. Researchers must
use the identifier as they publish/apply/upload/onboard
for prospective disambiguation to be realized.
When creating records, we need to think carefully about
how to engage researchers and ensure they take
ownership of and use their ORCID iD.
It may be that facilitating record creation and then
providing linking tools will be more effective than a bulk
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Bulk record creation

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24. New
Features in
2014
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✔Funding
✔New languages
✔New search and link wizards
Continuing to harmonize metadata
Third-party assertions
Account delegates
Grouping works
Public SSO API
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