1. Connecting Research and Researchers
UKSG Meeting, Bournemouth, UK
8 April 2013
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
l.haak@orcid.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700
http://orcid.org
@ORCID_Org

2. Why do I have to manually enter data about my
professional activities every time I … submit a manuscript,
apply for a grant, renew membership in my society?
What happens to this data when I move?
Are these two names referring to the same person?
How can we know what our researchers have produced?
How do we keep our repository up to date?
How can we accurately benchmark research strengths and
impact?
How can we track people who participated in our
programs? Are members of our organization?

3. ORCID Mission: Connecting
Research with Researchers
Without a way to discretely identify those participating in
research across disciplines, organizations, and countries,
the research community lacks the ability to
accurately and easily identify and link researchers
and scholars with their professional activities.
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4. ORCID
ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary,
open, not-for-profit, community-driven
organization. We collaborate with researchers and
organizations across the research community.
Our core mission is to provide an open registry of
persistent unique identifiers for researchers and
scholars and to automate linkages to research
works and objects such as publications, datasets,
other IDs, grants, and patents.
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5. The ORCID
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
• 16-digit number
• Expressed as URI
• Compatible with ISO
277729 standard

6. Benefits to the community
v Unique and persistent iD can be used throughout career
v Improved system interoperability – across discipline,
organization, and country
v Reduced reporting workload for researchers
v Automates repository deposition
v Supports institutional reporting
v Open identifier and APIs can be used in any setting
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7. For benefits to be realized…
Researchers must see the benefit of creating ORCID IDs
Researchers must create or claim an ORCID Account
Research information processes and systems must adopt
ORCID as a standard person identifier, embed ORCID
iDs, and link back with the ORCID Registry
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8. ORCID is international
11 countries >10,000 visitors
As of April 5, ORCID had 106,906 46 countries >1000
registered users. 87 countries >100
Country
/
Register for free directly at http://orcid.org/register Territory
Visits
%
of
Visits
United
States
59589
17.4%
United
Kingdom
24095
7.1%
China
20511
6.0%
Spain
19946
5.8%
Italy
17077
5.0%
Brazil
15836
4.6%
Germany
14927
4.4%
India
13712
4.0%
Australia
12750
3.7%
Japan
11828
3.5%
France
10600
3.1%
Canada
7926
2.3%
Portugal
6152
1.8%
Russia
5561
1.6%
Steady growth since launch
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9. ORCID iDs are being
embedded in workflows
v University CRIS systems (Boston Univ, Avedas….)
v Manuscript submission (Nature, Hindawi, APS, Copernicus…)
v Grant applications (NIH, Wellcome Trust…)
v Linkage with repositories (CrossRef, EBI-EMBL…)
v Linkage with other IDs (RID, Scopus…)
We are exploring integration in membership systems with
professional societies, and ORCID has been proposed as a
component of both FIM and COI management systems.
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10. Integrators are supporting
adoption and use
Social Other
Media 5%
While most users come directly to the 1%
ORCID Registry (http://orcid.org),
about a third of traffic to the ORCID External ID
14%
site comes from member integrations,
including manuscript submission Manuscript
systems, other ID providers or Submission
17%
repositories, and from non-members Direct
63%
through social media and use of the
public API.
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11. The ORCID Registry
Other IDs
• ResearcherID
• Scopus
• RePec
• SSRN
ORCID Account • ArXiv
• Account Settings
• Manage
Permissions Research Information Systems (CRIS)
• Research Institutions
• Funders
ORCID Record
• Governments
• Biography
• Research
Activities
Workflows
• Manuscript submission
• Grant applications
• Dataset deposition
• Patent applications

12. ORCID Privacy
Information in an ORCID Record has a privacy setting,
which can be set by the account owner or proxy.
Accessible by anyone
Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies), Trusted Organization(s)
Accessible by Account Owner, Proxy(ies)
Account information (settings, permissions) is
accessible by the

13. ORCID APIs
Public/Tier 1 API
• No token or registration needed
• Can only access data marked as public
• Can only READ
Member/Tier 2 API
• Registration and token needed
• With permission, can access data marked as limited
• Can READ, EDIT, APPEND. For institutions, it is also
possible to CREATE

14. ORCID Personas
The Scholar/Researcher
Individual for whom the iD and Record are created and maintained
Proxy(ies)
Individual(s) assigned by the Scholar to edit the ORCID Record on the
Scholar’s behalf (though the website)
Trusted Organization(s)
Organizations assigned by the Scholar to view, edit or add to the ORCID
Record on the Scholar’s behalf (through the API)
The ORCID Account Owner
The Scholar. If an institution creates an iD, could serve as account
owner.

15. Accessing ORCID Records
Scholar/Researcher Trusted Organizations
From the Website From the API
CREATE EDIT ADD TO READ CREATE permission:
CREATE
granted by ORCID only if employer
EDIT permission:
EDIT one time ONLY for short term;
granted at time of edit
APPEND permission:
Proxy(ies) ADD TO one time ONLY for short term;
From the Website granted at time of addition
EDIT ADD TO READ READ
READ permission:
granted until revoked by user
Permissions at launch– to be extended over time

16. Case Study 1: An iD is created by an institution, and
then claimed and managed by the user
1 2 3
CREATE ADD TO EDIT ADD TO READ
APPEND
READ
ORCID ORCID
ORCID
Record Record
Record
Trusted organizations
Scholar claims the ID, add activities and
Institution creates sets privacy levels, receive updated
an ID for employee establishes trust relationships Scholar information
API POST ORCID Web Interface API POST / GET

17. Case Study 2: A user establishes a trust
relationship while at a member site
1 2 3
EDIT ADD TO READ
APPEND
EDIT READ ORCID
? APPEND
READ
Record
Member site becomes
Member site asks Scholar reviews the trusted; may add
for permissions request and establishes activities and receive
from a Scholar trust relationships record updates
ORCID Widget ORCID Widget
API POST / GET
OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0

18. Example Workflows
v Linking to CRIS and importing information
v Embedding in manuscript submission and production
v Linking to external identifier
v Consuming data to generate usage statistics
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19. Link between
CRIS System Integration
profle and
ORCID iD
Import publications
from ORCID Record
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20. Manuscript
Submission
…last year’s launch of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) facility
is to be welcomed. The core function of ORCID — a community collaboration —
is to assign every researcher a number and a web page, thereby providing a
unique identifier and so disambiguation. The web page enables the researcher to
record their contributions: papers they have published and — a facility to come
— their research grants and patents. Nature journals authors can link their
ORCID to their account in our manuscript submission and tracking system, and
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21. Linking to other IDs
Create an ORCID
iD or associate
existing ORCID iD
with ResearcherID
Exchange profile and/
or publication data
between ORCID and
ResearcherID
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22. Generating Usage
Statistics
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23. 2013 Roadmap
Q1 Q2
Launch Ambassador Program Train Ambassadors
Publish Open Source Plan Build out methods for Open Source Cmty
Call for Developers: May Codefest Host May Outreach Mtg and Codefest
Workflow for Localization Launch Localized UI #1
New Features: Multi Email New Features: Affiliations, Grants, Proxies
Standard Integration: Publishers Std Integration: External IDs, Repositories
Premium Benefits: Reports, Webhooks Std Framework: Search and Import
Q3 Q4
Start work on claim store reqts Complete work on claim store reqts
Call for Developers: October Codefest Host October Outreach Mtg and Codefest
Launch Localized UI #2 Launch Localized UI #3
New Features: Patents, Cross-link works New Features: Pictures, Author linking, Invite
Standard Integration: Universities Std Integration: Funders

24. Need more information?
• Find out more at http://orcid.org
• Learn about APIs and tools to embed ORCID iDs at
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/
• ORCID code is posted on GitHub, see
https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/wiki
• Subscribe to our blog and follow @ORCID_Org on Twitter
• Contact the ORCID Executive Director at l.haak@orcid.org
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