Presentation at the 2016 ORCID South Africa Workshop (19 July 2016)

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Enabling information interoperability with
identifiers
ORCID Workshop, South Africa 19 July 2016
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

2. Engaging Researchers
“Researchers want to be read,
acknowledged, and quoted.”
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“Researchers want to spend
their time on research,
not reporting”

3. Names are Messy
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Can names be cleaned up?
Of course they can!
We need to use digital names:
persistent identifiers that uniquely
specify the person, organization, or
object to which a name refers

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ORCID provides persistent digital
identifiers that distinguish researchers
from each other

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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

7. Researcher Responsibility
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To benefit,
researchers need
only do 2 things:
① Register for an iD
② Use it!

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Over 2 million researchers have registered
for an ORCID identifier.
ORCID iDs are associated with:
• >6 million unique DOIs (papers & data)
• >50 thousand unique organization IDs

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DEMO VIDEO
DEMO VIDEO

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

12. Any Discipline,Any Country
ORCID can connect to over 30 work types, in any language
The Registry is available in 11 languages
We have staff in 9 countries who speak 7 languages
We have members in over 20 countries, across disciplines
We have users in every country
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13. Example: Digital Humanities
After Professor Andrew Brown studied classical and
jazz piano at The University of Melbourne he worked as
a keyboard player in touring bands through the 1980s.
During this time an interest in electronic keyboards
grew into a passion for music technology more broadly.
This passion has fuelled an academic career in teaching
and research at The University of Melbourne,
Queensland University of Technology, the Australasian
CRC for Interaction Design and now Griffith
University. His current performance practice is laptop
live coding and he is involved in a range of digital arts
practices.
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14. E N T E R O N C E
R E U S E O F T E N
INTEROPERABILITY
P U B L I S H E R
A S S E RT A U T H O R S H I P
E M P LOY E R
A S S E RT A F F I L I AT I O N
F U N D E R
A S S E RT AWA R D
C O N N E C TC O N
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C O L L E C TC O L L E C T
C O L L E C T
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NIHVideo
Wiley instructions
Publisher
requirement page Oxford LibGuide
Stellenbosch LibGuide

15. “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, (fmr) Assoc. Director, Bodleian
Libraries, University of Oxford
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-6104
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Universities

16. Funders
National funding agencies are using ORCID in their grants
management systems including the National Research
Foundation (ZA) National Institutes of Health (US),
Research Councils UK and the Australian Research Council.
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http://orcid.org/blog/2015/12/04/research-funders-and-orcid-new-members-mandates-and-platforms

17. Publishers
requiring
ORCID iDs:
Science
EMBO
PLOS
Royal Society
ACS
eLIFE
Hindawi
IEEE
AGU
Rockefeller
Univ. Press

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

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Auto-update in action

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DEMONSTRATION

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The ability to uniquely identify
contributors is a deceptively simple
concept which, if realised, could enable
forms of real-time understanding of
scientific research that up to now have
been extremely costly (if not impossible).
--Jonathan Kram,Wellcome Trust