Your Work is Distinctive: What About Your Name? (M. Buys)
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Your Work is Distinctive.
What about your Name?
2016 UAE Workshop
Sunday 6 March
Matthew Buys
Regional Director, ORCID
m.buys@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684
2. The research community has lacked
the ability to link researchers and
scholars with their professional
activities.
• Name variations:
§ Matthew J Buys, MJ Buys, M Buys, Matthew John
Buys, 修 入, Мэтью Байс
• Institutional variations:
§ ORCID, ORCID Incorporated, ORCID Inc, ORCID
EMEA
Why is there a problem?
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3. Algorithms cannot solve this
• Different versions (full
name vs. initials)
• Shared names
• Transliteration
• ALT characters
• Name changes
• Multiple family names
J. Å. S. Sørensen
J.Aa. S. Sørensen
J. Åge S. Sørensen
J.Aage S. Sørensen
J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
J.Aage Smaerup Sørensen
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4. • Discoverability of research outputs in
databases and institutional record
management
• It is a challenge to find the unique researchers
or institution without a unique persistent iD
(ORCID)
• ORCID allows for simple searching of a specific
iD and creates an authority record i.e.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684
First challenge
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5. • Output tracking, research reporting and
impact assessment
• It is extremely difficult for an institution to conduct
research evaluation without a unique persistent iD
(ORCID) or an institutional iD
• It is possible to ensure that the institutional name that is
captured in ORCID enabled publisher systems is correct
i.e. ORCID Inc
• This enables better research evaluation and improved
integrity of data in the research ecosystem
Second challenge
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ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that
distinguishes researchers from each other
8. Adding activities
Professional activities (Education, Employment, Funding and
Works) can be added by an individual or automatically by an
ORCID member organization through the API
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11. ORCID community integrations
• Funders: COLLECT iDs at grant submission and review; PUBLISH with
award; POST grant IDs researcher record; RECEIVE updates
• Universities: COLLECT iDs for new staff and students, at thesis
submission, in faculty profile systems; POST affiliation IDs; RECEIVE updates
• Publishers and Repositories: COLLECT iDs for authors,
contributors, and reviewers; PUBLISH iD with work, POST paper, dataset,
review IDs; RECEIVE updates
• Associations: COLLECT iDs for members, authors, and meeting
participants; POST affiliation and presentation IDs; RECEIVE updates
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12. Adoption of ORCID
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2,014,627 ORCID iDs and counting
12,121,523Works activities
(publications, data sets, patents and other
research outputs)
150,378 Funding activities
704,751 Employment activities
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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
Closing remarks
17. • Find out more at http://orcid.org
• Register at http://orcid.org/register
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Thank you!
Matthew Buys
Regional Director, ORCID
m.buys@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684
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Appendix A
ORCID Demonstration