Presentation at ORCID Outreach Meeting, 4 November 2014, Tokyo, by Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef

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Knowledge Discovery Problem

2. 2
Given a work, tell me
who is responsible for
it and describe the
nature of that
responsibility.

3. 3

4. 4

5. 5
Given a name, tell be
what works they have
contributed to and
describe the nature of
the contributions.

6. 6

7. 7
Given a name, tell me
what other names are
“related” to the first
name and tell me the
nature of that
relationship.

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9. What is the problem?
The research community has lacked
the ability to link researchers and
scholars with their professional
activities.
• Discoverability within and across databases
• Author, grantee, and faculty record management
• Member and meeting management
• Reviewer selection
• Interoperability between research info systems
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10. Keys to success w/researchers
• Make things easy for researchers – save them
time!
• Systems need to integrate with ORCID to
exchange metadata so researchers don’t have
to type in information on different systems
• Example: sign into manuscript submission
systems with ORCID – grant application
systems need to do the same
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11. ORCID & CrossRef
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5993-8592
Live ORCID iDs - 964,638
Works with unique DOIs - 2,222,880
ORCID iDs in CrossRef – 135,473

13. Exciting next step….
• Publishers collect ORCID iDs on manuscript
submission
• Publishers deposit ORCID iDs with CrossRef
metadata on publication
• CrossRef will automatically update the
researcher’s profile (with their permission)
with the new publication.
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