Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are an increasingly important tool and technology that enable new services for research. They are attached to outputs, grant funding, people and more. They provide a way to connect data, improve accuracy, and help the flow of information. Researchers can benefit from time savings, and more accurate attribution (think better citation data…) and institutions can gain efficiency savings and a better understanding of their research portfolio. This webinar will provide an overview of the current PID landscape and will offer guidance on how PIDs for people (ORCID iDs) can be integrated in your systems, helping your researchers to take advantage of new and emerging services.

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ORCID Identifiers:
What are they for and what should you be doing
with them?
UKSGWebinar, 27 September 2016
Josh Brown
J.Brown@orcid-eu.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-4935

2. Why
ORCID?
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3. One researcher may have many
profiles or identifiers
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Our vision
ORCID’s vision is a world where
all who participate in research, scholarship, and
innovation are uniquely identified
and connected to their contributions and
affiliations across time, disciplines, and borders.

5. ORCID provides
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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish
researchers from each other
Member-built integrations that connect
researchers and their activities/affiliations
A hub for synchronizing machine-readable
connections between identifiers for people,
organizations, and research activities
✔ Plumbing for research information
✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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Organizations use
ORCID APIs to
authenticate, collect,
display, and connect
persistent identifiers
for people, places,
and things in
research workflows
ORCID enables assertions

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ORCID is Open
• Non-proprietary and platform-neutral
• International service that integrates
with other researcher identifiers
• Registry use is free for individuals
• Independent non-profit membership
organization
• Open data, software,APIs, and
documentation

8. Who is using
ORCID and
How?
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9. Integrations by sector
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7% 5%
16%
10%62%
Associations
Funders
Publishers
Repositories/Profile organizations
Research institutions

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Publisher Requirements
Other
publishers
requiring
ORCID iDs in
2016: PLOS,
eLIFE,
Science,
Hindawi,
IEEE, AGU…

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People andThings
submit
manuscript
submit
metadata
update
author
ORCID
record
ORCID Record
notifications to
member
systems
University
Library
Faculty Profiles
Fundershttp://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/09/orcid-auto-update.html

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Auto-update for data

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Auto-update in action

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Auto-update in action

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Auto-update in action

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Auto-update in action

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Adoption
across the
globe

18. Integrations by region
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15%
52%1%
2%
30%
Asia Pacific
Europe
Latin America
Mid East & Africa
US/Canada

19. Registry visits around the globe
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ORCID and privacy
• Researchers own and control their own
ORCID records
• US-based servers and data processing
• Trust-e certified – audited annually to
ensure that our privacy and security are
strong
https://orcid.org/footer/privacy-policy
Privacy enables us to deliver
an international service

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ORCID and privacy
We are monitoring
developments in Europe (ECJ
ruling on Safe harbour, Privacy
Shield, GDPR etc.)
We will work with SUNET, Knowledge
Exchange and other European partners to
stay ahead of developments.
https://orcid.org/footer/privacy-policy

22. Case study
one:
the UK.
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23. Adoption in the UK
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Following several years of consensus
building, Jisc and ARMA funded 8
projects to test ORCID
implementation.
Their report sets out the benefits of
large-scale adoption:
http://orcidpilot.jiscinvolve.org

24. Adoption in the UK
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Jisc have established a
national ORCID
consortium in the UK.
77 Universities and 7 Research
Councils have joined already, and others
have expressed an interest in joining soon.

25. Funder adoption in the UK
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NIHR and Wellcome Trust mandate
ORCID iDs for grant submissions.
The Research Councils have
implemented ORCID in their grant
application and their outputs system.
HEFCE are exploring how encourage the
use of ORCID iDs.

26. Case study
two:
Italy.
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27. Adoption in Italy
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Cineca have created a
national ORCID
consortium in Italy.
70 Universities and 4 research
centres joined as a result, with more to
follow.

28. Adoption in Italy
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ANVUR and CRUI have launched the Italian
Researcher Identifier for Evaluation (IRIDE)
project:
By the end of 2016 at least 80% of Italian
researchers (including PhD students and
post-docs) will possess an ORCID iD
linked to their publications back to 2006

29. Adoption in Italy
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new ORCID Cumulative ORCID
5-10 Universities / week

30. 94%
6%
National
Database
YES
NO
Adoption in Italy
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98%
2%
ORCID HUB
YES
NO

31. Case study
three:
Germany.
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Germany
• National pilot funded by the Ministry for
Research (DFG) – ORCID DE
• Integrating in national information
systems (Authority Files, Repositories
etc.)
• 12 participating Universities
• Consortium agreement starting in
October

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Other news…
National consortia launched or about to launch in:
• Belgium
• Finland
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Sweden
• Taiwan
In addition to the existing consortia in Australia,
Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom, United States (3)

34. New
developments
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35. 27 September 2016 orcid.org 35

36. Collect & Connect goals
• Clarify how plumbing works
• Standardize experience
• Standard connection installation
guidelines
• Increase predictability and trust in the
“utility”
• Community approach to reliable
connections
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37. Where are we?
• Journals starting to collect ORCID iDs from
reviewers; funders planning workflows
• ORCID has launched UI and APIs
• F1000,AGU, Publons and others have
implemented iD connectors
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Peer Review

38. Peer Review Workflow
 Verify review via editorial
management system
 Post review citation to
ORCIDPublisher ORCID Record
notifications to
external
repositories
submit
review

39. Forthcoming developments
• A major update to the ORCID API,
introducing per-item updates
• Organisation Identifiers
• Crossref, DataCite and ORCID collaborating
• We’ve analysed the landscape and found no
solution to our needs
• We’re starting a working group to develop a
community-led solution
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40. Affiliation ‘round trip’
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• A user signs in to ORCID using
their organization credentials
• If their home institution is an
ORCID member, sign-in can
trigger an alert for the member
to request permissions to
read/write to that user’s
ORCID record
• Granted permission, the
member can then assert
affiliation into the user’s ORCID
account.
• Target release: Fall 2016

41. How can we
use and
manage iDs?
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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.

43. Dealing with duplicates
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Step one: avoid the
creation of duplicates

44. Dealing with duplicates
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http://orcid.org/blog/2014/01/09/managing-duplicate-iDs
Step two: link any
duplicate records
One iD becomes primary, the other(s)
point to that iD. This preserves any
connections that have been made to
the original

45. Create and connect
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http://members.orcid.org/create-records
We provide code examples, templates and
how-to guides to facilitate the creation of iDs
and to connect them to your systems

46. Emails and affiliations
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You can add multiple email addresses to
an account, and flag ones that are no longer
in use.

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ORCID membership
ORCID members help to
shape the organisation.
In 2016 we are holding elections to the
ORCID Board of Directors - Members
have nominated directors for election
to the board, where they will help to
direct our priorities and the future of
ORCID.

48. Thank you.
Any questions?
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Feel free to get in touch:
J.Brown@orcid-eu.org