This presentation was provided by Alice Meadows of ORCID as part of the NISO Training Thursday webinar held on April 28, 2016.

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ORCID: What,Why, How?
NISO, April 28,2016
Alice Meadows,Directorof Community
Engagement & Support
orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781 @alicejmeadows
Contact Info: p. +1-301-500-2139 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA

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Names are messy!

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Connecting info by names is complicated
Of the more than 6 million authors in a major journal citations and
abstracts database,+2/3 share last name and single initial with
another author.An ambiguous name in the same database refers on
average to 8 people.
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6. Uniquely identifying contributors
“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,WellcomeTrust
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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 across
disciplines,borders, and time.

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The ORCID organization
● Non-profit, non-proprietary, open
● Global, interdisciplinary
● Independent, community-driven
● Supported by organizational memberships
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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish researchers
from each other
Member-built integrations for automated links between
researchers and their activities/affiliations
A hub for machine-readable connections between
identifiers for organizations,funding, outputs, and people
ORCID provides
✔ Plumbing for research information
✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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ORCID collaborates with other organizations to
ensure adoption and use of research
information standards, including persistent
identifiers
Collaborating to support standards

11. Top 10 benefits for researchers
1. Reliably connects them with their contributions and affiliations
2. Alleviates mistaken identity
3. Saves time – “enter once,re-use often”
4. Improves recognition for researchers and their research outputs
5. Increases discoverability of their research outputs
6. Researchers own and control their record,managing what information is
connected and how it is shared
7. More and more systems they already use are connected with ORCID
8. Free to register and use
9. Easy to connect with affiliations,works,and awards
10. Enables researchers to play their part in making the Internet better!
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Registrants: facts and figures
● ~2.2m live ORCID iDs
● Associated with ~5.8m DOIs
● 435k+ linked to works
● 510k+ linked to education
● 470k+ linked to employment
Latest stats at: https://orcid.org/statistics (updated weekly)

13. Top 10 benefits for research orgs
1. Improve speed and accuracy of research reporting
2. Maintain connections with researchers despite name/affiliation changes
3. Reduce/eliminate need for researcher disambiguation processes
4. Enable machine-to-machine updates for researcher reporting
5. Strengthen connections/stickiness of researchers to your system
6. Validate your researchers’ affiliation,awards,or works – building trust in the
overall research infrastructure
7. Learn from other organizations’ experiences and share your own
8. Benefit from opportunities for public recognition of good ORCID integrations
9. Get involved and help shape ORCID’s future priorities and goals
10. Play your part in making the Internet work better!
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~500 organizational members
230+ member integrations
Funder
5% Repository
10%
Association
7%
Publishing
13%
Research
Org.
65%
Europe
53%
Middle East
& Africa
2%
Asia
8%
Pacific Rim
6%
North
America
30%
South
America
1%
Integration in research systems

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Collect & Connect goals
• Clarify goals and expectations across sectors
• Standardize and improve the user experience
• Improve trust in connections between ORCID and other
identifiers
• Increase efficiency and quality of integrations
• Help achieve ORCID’s vision through a community approach

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Collect & Connect
Collect
Display Connect
Synchronize
Authenticate!

20. Collect & Connect responsibilities
Collect validated ORCID iDs
Display iDs on your website and include in metadata
Connect information to ORCID records
Synchronize with your own systems
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22. Thank You
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● TWITTER:@ORCID_Org
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