The document outlines the mission and goals of the national integrated information ecosystem (ptcris) aimed at supporting research management in Portugal, focusing on establishing a regulatory framework and integrating various systems. It highlights the importance of ORCID for researchers, noting that it is currently mandatory for funding applications, and discusses the challenges of managing scattered research outcomes and inconsistent information. A proposed solution involves a streamlined synchronization protocol to ensure global consistency and ease of implementation across ptcris systems.

1. ORCiD @ PTCRIS
João Mendes Moreira http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-2728
Alcino Cunha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2714-8027

2. PTCRIS
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3. Mission
• Ensure the creation and sustained development
of a national integrated information ecosystem
(PTCRIS) to support research management
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4. Goals
• Define the regulatory framework to be adopted by the
various systems
• Coordinate system integration within FCT in
accordance with the regulatory framework
• Coordinate the integration of external systems
(national and international) with FCT in accordance
with the regulatory framework
• Support and promote the usage of the various
systems in the national research community
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5. The ecosystem
CV
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJS
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FCT|SIG

6. Regulatory framework
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7. ORCiD @ PTCRIS
1. Provider of unique research identifiers
2. Synchronization hub for research outputs
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8. Unique IDs
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9. Current situation
• ORCID is mandatory for researchers wanting to
apply for FCT funding
• Around 22.000 researchers have their ORCID
registered at FCT|SIG (+63% since last national
REF)
• Several other systems can also register the
ORCID (for example, around 6000 users have
their ORCID registered at the CV management
system)
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10. FCT|SIG
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11. Synchronization hub
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12. Our problem
• Research outcomes scattered through various
(national and international) services and data
formats
• Heavy burden on researchers and managers
• Inconsistent information and impact assessment
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13. Our goal
• Input once, reuse often!
• Automatic synchronization between services
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14. A non solution
ORCID
CV
Researcher
ID
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJSScopus
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15. A non solution
• Many synchronization procedures per service
• Implementation and maintainability nightmare
• No clear flow to achieve global consistency
• No consistent ORCID synchronization behavior
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16. Our solution
ORCID
CV
Researcher
ID
OA
aggregator
DSpace
OJSScopus
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17. Our solution
• One synchronization procedure per service
• Easier to implement and maintain
• Clear flow to achieve global consistency
• Consistent behavior across all PTCRIS systems
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18. Why ORCID?
• High coverage of predefined requirements
• High interoperability with external sources
• High coverage of the national research community
• Sustainable and open source
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19. More information
• An ORCID based synchronization framework for a
national CRIS ecosystem: paper describing the
design methodology, presented at the 2015 ORCID
CASRAI joint conference
http://f1000research.com/articles/4-181/v1
• PTCRISync v0.4: current specification of the
synchronization protocol for ORCID API 2.0
http://ptcris.pt/en/hub-ptcris-en/
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20. Current situation
• Certified implementation of the synchronization protocol
at the CV management system and OA aggregator
expected to go live soon (already demoed in Feb 2015)
• Implementations at several local CRIS will follow
• Working with CINECA on a new version of the protocol
to be implemented in DSpace CRIS
• Funding database provided by FCT to ÜberResearch
(around 2000 national researchers already imported
grants to ORCID)
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