Presentation given at a workshop of Science Europe "Data on Research Activity: Towards Data Interoperability for Research Funding and Research Performing Org dfanisations" on 15.6.2016

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Interoperability: Researcher Identification
Science Europe Workshop: Data on Research Activity, The Hague, 15.06.2016
christian.gutknecht@snf.ch (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1692)
Spike Walker, Wellcome Images, Creative Commons by-nc-nd 4.0

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Agenda
1. How it Identity management currently works at the
SNSF
2. Potential of ORCID
3. Challenges of/with ORCID

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Identity Management at the SNSF
Current situation
Annie Cavanagh, Wellcome Images, by-nc-nd 4.0

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mySNF: Grant Administration System of
the SNSF
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Registration – General information
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Registration – Address of institute
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Registration – Home Address
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Registration – Communication
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Edit personal data in user profile
https://www.mysnf.ch

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Changes are approved manually by the SNFS

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Edited
user
data
Existing
user
data

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Existing
Institution
data
Edited
institution
data

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http://intranet.snf.ch/downloads/itc_bus_Richtlinie_Adresswesen_d.pdf
Guidelines

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Person Search in mySNF

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Person Profile in mySNF

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P3 – ORCID displayed
http://p3.snf.ch/person-523490-Abankwa-Daniel

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P3 – Available in CSV-Download
http://p3.snf.ch/Pages/DataAndDocumentation.aspx

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The Potential of ORCID for a funder
Alfred Anwander, Wellcome Images, Creative Commons by-nc-nd

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Funders that require use of ORCID
Autism Speaks, USA (2014)
FCT, Portugal (2014)
QNRF, Qatar (2014)
SRC, Sweden (2014)
Department of Transportation, US (2015)
NIHR, UK (2015)
Wellcome Trust, UK (2015)
FWF, Austria (2016)
http://orcid.org/blog/2015/12/04/research-funders-and-orcid-new-members-mandates-and-platforms

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ORCID Statistics (14.06.2016)
Live ORCID iDs 2,297,632
ORCID iDs with at least one work 467,587
Works activities
(publications, data sets, patents and other
research outputs)
13,840,369
Unique DOIs 6,225,032
Employment activities 822,024
Employment to unique organizations 257,774
Education activities 972,272
Education at unique organizations 172,816
Funding activities 176,664
Funding from unique organizations 56,118

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Potential for ORCID
• Provide unique identifier for a researcher
• Sync current contact adresses
• Auto-fill for grant application: profile of applicant
and co-applicants, previous grants, related grants,
CV’s, publication lists
• Tracking outcome of a grant: publications, events,
research data etc.
• Follow researchers careers (scientific track record)
• Find Reviewers & Check conflict of interests

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Import CV, publication list from ORCID
http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/sinergia_leitfaden_e.pdf
Example of what applicants
should provide to the SNSF (today)

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Example: SciENcv – NIH Biosketch
https://youtu.be/G_cKSRr7TJ4?t=32s

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Capture Output data

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Output data type as defined by the SNSF
• Personal Data
• Academic events
• Knowledge transfer events
• Public communication
• Collaboration
• Use-inspired Outputs
• (Patent, Start-up, Expert/Reviewer, Activity)
• Awards
• Third-party funds
• Follow-up projects

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Peer Review Activities?
https://members.orcid.org/api/peer-review-getting-started

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Import publications

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Source for finding Reviewers?

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Challenges
Pawel Wozniak - CC-BY

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ORCID metadata schema sufficient for
your (more specific) needs?
https://members.orcid.org/api

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Example: XML for funding I
http://members.orcid.org/api/xml-funding
• <type> The type of funding, select from award, contract, grant, salary-award. This field is required.
• <funding-title> A container tag for the title tags giving the title of the funding <title> is required
under <funding-title>
• <short-description> A brief description of the funding.
• <amount> A numerical value for the amount of the award, the currency of the award should be
given using the attribute "currency-code." This field is required.
• <url> A link to the funding or funding output
• <start-date> The date the funding began, given to any level of specificity with the tags <year>
<month> <date>.
• <end-date> The date funding ended or will end, given to any level of specificity with the tags
<year> <month> <date>.
• <funding-external-identifiers> A non-repeatable container for identifiers of the funding
• <funding-external-identifier> A container tag for one unique identifier linked to the funding
• <funding-external-identifier-type> Currently only grant_number is allowed
• <funding-external-identifier-value> The unique identifier itself
• <funding-external-identifier-url> An external link to information about the funding link using
the unique identifier.
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• <contributors> a non-repeatable container for information about the recipients of the funding.
• <funding-contributor> a container for information about each recipient of the funding.
• <credit-name> name of the recipient of the funding.
• <contributor-email> email address of the recipient, if known.
• <funding-contributor-attributes> a container for information about the recipient's relationship to
the funding
• <funding-contributor-role> the recipient's role in relation to the funding. role in this funding. The
options are Leadand Co lead for individuals who applied for and received the funding, Supported by for
individuals employed by the funding, or Other contribution.
• <organization> a container for elements describing the organization which awarded the funding
• <name> The name of the parent organization which awarded the funding. This field is required.
• <address> Contains the tags <city>, <region> and <country> for the location of the funding agency.
<country> should be filed out with a two letter country code. The <city> and <country> tags are
required.
• <disambiguated-organization> a tag container tag for information distinguishing the funding
agency.
• <disambiguated-organization-identifier> A unique identifier for the organization.
• <disambiguation-source> The source of the identifier used in <disambiguated-organization-
identifier>. Durring the testing on sandbox, ORCID supports Ringgold identifiers, FundRef identifiers
will be supported by the time funding is launched on production. For more information see
Organizations in ORCID.
Example: XML for funding II
http://members.orcid.org/api/xml-funding

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Controled by the researcher
- Use of ORCID record requires consent of researchers
- Completeness of an ORCID record depends on the
activity of researchers
- There’s no central authority that «corrects» the data.

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How are new features decided?
“Many of the enhancements on the ORCID development
roadmap are from community suggestions received
through the ORCID iDeas Forum. We work with the
community through the ORCID Technical Steering Group
to review your suggestions. Occasionally, a topic will be
big enough that we will engage a
Technical Working Group to help understand the area and
to solicit broader input from the
ORCID Technical Community.”
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/135210

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Governance I
“As part of our charter, we are seeking member
recommendations for new Directors. All ORCID members
are eligible to have representatives serve as ORCID
Directors. In addition, the Board has a slot for a researcher,
who need not be affiliated with an ORCID member to
serve. We will draw up a slate based on member
recommendations, taking into account balance by sector,
region, skills, and non-profit status requirements
established in the ORCID bylaws.”
http://orcid.org/blog/2016/06/08/orcid-board-elections-calling-nominations

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Governance II
http://orcid.org/blog/2016/06/08/orcid-board-elections-calling-nominations

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Import vs. Sync
• Currently many applications just import from ORCID
• To setup a fully syncronized solution ist not trivial and
is prone for errors. See:
Moreira et al. (2015): An ORCID based synchronization
framework for a national CRIS ecosystem: http://doi.org/9g8

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https://orcid.org/blog/2016/06/07/collect-connect-turning-orcid%E2%80%99s-vision-reality