High level description of initial activities to integrate DSpace with ORCID as part of the ORCID A&I program.

1. ORCID for DSpace
Grant awarded to @mire and University of Missouri
ORCID Adoption & Integration program
www.atmire.com

2. WHAT IS ORCID?
Solving the problem of linking researchers and
their professional activities
By creating an international unique and persistent
identifier scheme, embedded in works metadata
Supported by a non-profit institution and large
buyin from research funders, publishers and academia.

3. POTENTIAL FOR REPOSITORIES
Highly automated repository deposit
Easier cross-institution information exchange
Store things, not strings

4. FIRST IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Integrate ORCID lookup with item submission
and admin item edit
Store additional ORCID metadata separately
from the DSpace metadata scheme
Integrate ORCID functionality into the DSpace
batch item spreadsheet editing.

5. TENTATIVE TIMELINE
May 2014
Show prototype at ORCID meeting
June 2014
Finalization of all deliverables
Dec 2014
Inclusion into DSpace 5.0

6. GET YOUR ORCID TODAY!
http://orcid.org