Technical update at May 2014 ORCID Outreach Meeting by Laura Paglione

1. orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Technical
Update
ORCID Outreach Meeting
Chicago, IL
21 May 2014

2. At the last outreach
meeting…
• We talked about what we were planning!
• Education & employment affiliations
• Funding and grants
• ISNI linking
• Mobile-friendly site
Since then…
• We launched these and other features and
improvements
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Highlight: Affiliations
Type ahead list
of
organizations


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FundRef
Compatible
Several
funding
types
• Grants
• Awards
• Contracts
Highlight: Funding

5. New search & link wizards!
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Highlight: Search & Link
• DataCite
• Search the DataCite Metadata
Store to find your research
datasets, images, and other works.
• ISNI 2 ORCID
• Search the ISNI registry to link ISNI and any
books attached to the ISNI.
• UberWizard
• Link awarded grants from funders around the
world.

6. Mobile Friendly
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Highlight: Mobile Site
MobileComputer 

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Highlight: Easy Edit Data
 Easy-edit
Personal
Information
Edit data in-line
Easier to separate
names and
keywords
Easier to see what
you can add

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Email already exists
Highlight: Auto-fill Sign-in
Email does not exist
https://qa.orcid.org/oauth/authorize?[…]&
family_names=<user family name>&
given_names=<user given name>&
email=Email_<user email>
 New Parameters

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Highlight: Authenticated iD
 Get an
authenticate
d ORCID iD
• Free, public API
• Easy setup & use
for developers
• Help built into the
interface
Sign up for the Beta:
http://orcid.org/content/b
eta-tester-request

10. • Key working group drivers & goals
• “Duplicates” on the record
• Support for verified information on the Record from
organizations
• Improve quality of data – manage duplicate & conflicting info
• Save users effort in creating & maintaining high-quality ORCID
Records
• Recommendation
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/230856-twg-multiple-
assertions
• Early Implementation Highlights
• Duplicate activity management (Works, Funding, etc)
• Validated claims
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Highlight: Sneak Peak
Multiple Assertions

11. Account Delegation
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Highlight: Sneak Peak
Scholars assign trusted individuals
to manage their record 
Trusted individuals can manage the
record on the scholar’s behalf 

12. Other coming functionality
Q3 2014
• Message interface, user control over email
frequency
• Researcher-requested: “Duplicate” activity
management (works, funding, etc)
• Tweet my iD – Social connection e.g. Twitter,
Facebook
Q4 2014
• Researcher-requested: Google Scholar Connection
• Researcher-requested: Edit activities added my me
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Highlight: Sneak Peak

13. • Other upcoming functionality for
research institutions
• Ability to update items already entered
• Validated affiliations
• Affiliation search & link wizards
• Customized claim emails when creating
new ORCID iDs
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Highlight: Sneak Peak

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Thank you to the Tech
Team!
Catalina Laura Rob
Angel Fran Will