Consol Garcia

BCBL, UPC-BarcelonaTech

consol.garcia@upc.edu

93 552 3563

Outreach Steering Group, ORCID

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085/0088

http://orcid.org

@ORCID_Org

Persistent Identifiers for Researchers and

ContributorsEIFL General Assembly, Istanbul, Nov 10 2014

Identifiers

ORCID ISNI VIAF DOI

Handle Ring

goldURI URL

DAIResearcher

IDOpenID Author

ID

They are needed for:

citation (impact, visibility, credit, ...)

preservation

data exchange

content migration

Exemples:

DOI

Handle

PMID, PMCID

FundRef

ISNI (Ringgold)

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Numeric or alpha-numeric persistent designations

associated with a single entity

Entities can be an institution, person, or piece of content

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…and what do they do, exactly?

Disambiguate and enforce uniqueness

Enable linking and data integration

In other words, persistent identifiers provide a

simple basis for data governance

Identifiers

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The problem

“Estimates by China's

Ministry of Public Security

suggest that more than 1.1

billion people — around 85%

of China's population —

share just 129 surnames.

Problems with abbreviations,

ordering of given names and

surnames and inconsistent

journal practices heighten the

confusion.”http://www.nature.com/news/2008/08

0213/full/451766a.html

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Why I need to type in the same information when … I submit a paper,

I apply for a grant, I renew my membership?...

What happens when I change jobs?

Are both names the same person?

How can we keep track on what our researchers are authoring?

How can I update my institutional repository?

How I can know what resaerchers have been working at my instituion?

The problem

Authors

Profiles and identifiers

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One researcher may have many profiles or identifiers

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ORCID provides a free, non-proprietary registry of persistent

unique identifiers for researchers, scholars, and analysts

ORCID iDs are embedded in research systems

ORCID provides APIs that enable the interoperable

exchange of information between systems

ORCID code is open source (GitHub)

ORCID support community efforts to develop tools and

services

ORCID iDs link to other research information identifiers

ORCID is an independent non-profit organization supported by

member fees

What is ORCID?

ORCID mission

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Create a central registry of unique identifiers for

individual researchers

no boundaries (subject, instituition, country).

and an open and transparent linking mechanism

between ORCID and other current researcher ID

schemes.

can be linked to the researcher's output to

enhance the scientific discovery process and to

improve the efficiency of research funding and

collaboration within the research community.

Funders

Other identifiers

Professional

associations

Publishers

Subsmission

systems

Repositories

Universities, research centers,

What is ORCID?

ORCID connects

researchers with their

works (papers, grants,

datasets, and more),

organizations, and other

identifiers

ORCID APIs enable

exchange between

research data systems

It’s matter of

interoperability

What is ORCID?

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Broad international usageCountry Sessions %

US 715717 16.1%

China 432621 9.7%

India 258187 5.8%

UK 243375 5.5%

Portugal 220325 5.0%

Spain 201182 4.5%

Italy 152584 3.4%

Brazil 152531 3.4%

Germany 147142 3.3%

Japan 127571 2.9%

Australia 111425 2.5%

France 108744 2.4%

Canada 94576 2.1%

Iran 89571 2.0%

South Korea 84402 1.9%

Russia 80004 1.8%

Vietnam 73145 1.6%

Turkey 73038 1.6%

Taiwan 60223 1.4%

Malaysia 58896 1.3%

Sweden 56948 1.3%

Netherlands 55613 1.3%

Egypt 47051 1.1%

Poland 41898 0.9%

Mexico 38850 0.9%

Switzerland 38739 0.9%

Belgium 28581 0.6%

Saudi Arabia 27995 0.6%

Ukraine 27922 0.6%

Greece 27096 0.6%

More information

API Guide http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/180285

ORCID API Users Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orcid-api-

users

ORCID Knowledge Base http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase

High level guides (http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/topics/32828)

Detailed tutorials (http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/topics/32831)

Integraciones https://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/current

ORCID Support http://support.orcid.org or support@orcid.org

Blog http://orcid.org/about/news

Twitter: @ORCID_Org