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Series 11: Integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DSpace, Fedora and VIVO
Webinar 3: “Enhancing Early Career Researcher Profiles: VIVO & ORCID Integration”
April 16, 2015
Curated by Josh Brown, ORCID
Presented by: Simeon Warner, Library Information Systems, Cornell University, Jon Corson-Rikert, Head of Information Technology Services, Cornell University and Kristi Holmes, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University
[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
4.16.15 Slides, “Enhancing Early Career Researcher Profiles: VIVO & ORCID Integration”
1. Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace
Community Webinar Series
“Enhancing Early Career Researcher
Profiles: VIVO & ORCID Integration”
Curated by Josh Brown, Regional Director
Europe, ORCID
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Webinar 3:
Enhancing Early Career Researcher
Profiles: VIVO & ORCID Integration
Presented by:
•Josh Brown, Regional Director Europe, ORCID
•Kristi Holmes, Galter Health Sciences Library and
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences
Institute (NUCATS)
•Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University Library
•Simeon Warner, Cornell University Library
4. Why ORCID?
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“Of the more than 6 million authors in a
major journal citations and abstracts
database, more than two-thirds of them share
a last name and single initial with another
author, and an ambiguous name in the same
database refers on average to eight people.”
http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf
6. What is ORCID?
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ORCID is a
hub.
ORCID APIs
connect:
•researchers
•their works
•organizations
•other
identifiers
10. Running from 2013 to 2014, the
program was designed to increase
ORCID adoption and integration in
universities.
•9 projects
•13 integrations
•>7k slidedeck views
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1290632
The Adoption and integration program
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11. The Adoption and Integration program
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Universities are now the fastest growing
member segment.
Opportunity costs are lower, and integrations
are faster.
12. Speakers
• Kristi Holmes
– VIVO and ORCID
• Jon Corson-Rikert
– ORCID iDs and VIVO profiles
• Simeon Warner
– Challenges and confusions
• Kristi Holmes
– Profusion of identifiers
• Josh Brown
– International context
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13. VIVO & ORCID
Kristi Holmes, PhD
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14. What is VIVO?
1. An open source
semantic web
application
2. An information
model
3. An open
community
15. VIVO
An open-source semantic web application that
enables the discovery of research and
scholarship across disciplines in an institution.
An open-source semantic web application that
enables the discovery of research and
scholarship across disciplines in an institution.
VIVO harvests data from verified sources and
offers detailed profiles of faculty and
researchers.
VIVO harvests data from verified sources and
offers detailed profiles of faculty and
researchers.
Public, structured linked data about
investigators interests, activities and
accomplishments, and
tools to use that data to advance science.
Public, structured linked data about
investigators interests, activities and
accomplishments, and
tools to use that data to advance science.
VIVO enjoys a robust open community space
to support implementation, adoption,
&development efforts around the world.
See http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO
VIVO enjoys a robust open community space
to support implementation, adoption,
&development efforts around the world.
See http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO
16. A VIVO profile allows you to:
Showcase credentials, expertise, skills, and
professional achievements for individuals and
campus groups.
Showcase credentials, expertise, skills, and
professional achievements for individuals and
campus groups.
Connect within focus areas and geographic
expertise.
Connect within focus areas and geographic
expertise.
Simplify reporting tasks and link data to external
applications – e.g., to generate biosketches or CV or
for reporting purposes.
Simplify reporting tasks and link data to external
applications – e.g., to generate biosketches or CV or
for reporting purposes.
Publish the URL or link the profile to other
applications.
Publish the URL or link the profile to other
applications.
Discover potential colleagues or campus resources
by work area, authorship, & collaborations.
Discover potential colleagues or campus resources
by work area, authorship, & collaborations.
Display visualizations of expertise areas or complex
collaboration networks and relationships.
Display visualizations of expertise areas or complex
collaboration networks and relationships.
17. How are ORCID and VIVO
complementary?
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18. ORCID iD is the permanent, global
identifier, with enough information to
aid in disambiguation of the person
VIVO is typically an institutionally-
managed profile of the researcher’s
activities and outputs
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VIVO stays at the
institution,
ORCID stays with
the researcher
• So especially for early-
career researchers, ORCID
iDs will link VIVO profiles at
different institutions as the
researcher moves
• Place as well as name
changes over time -- even
for established people
20. Longitudinal tracking of people –
a tough nut to crack!
• Scholars and Trainees
• Alumni
• Visiting scientists
• Administrators
• Mentors and mentees
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22. Longitudinal tracking of people –
a tough nut to crack!
• the role ORCID is
currently playing
• Enhancing the process
through researcher
information systems
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23. Accreditation requirements
• One institution has a
behind-the-firewall VIVO
to track their alumni for 3
years after graduation, a
requirement for
accreditation
• ORCID iDs would help
reduce the effort
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VIVO
24. Galter Library’s Metrics and
Impact Core
• The Metrics and Impact Core (MIC), housed in Galter Library, has
expertise in bibliometrics, data visualization, continuous
improvement, information systems and alternative metrics. The
core provides extensive advisory services for researchers, groups
or departments on topics such as:
• developing successful publishing strategies
• managing or tracking publications
• maintaining an impactful online identity
• measuring or assessing research impact by discipline
• communicating research impact to audiences
• MIC uses a wide collection of resources, including Scopus, Web of
Science, Essential Science Indicators, Google Scholar, NU
Scholars, Journal Citation Reports, and more, to provide services
and reports for:
• Researchers or clinicians to demonstrate impact of published works to promotion
or tenure committees, or the impact of research studies to funding agencies when
applying for funding
• Research groups/institutions/departments to discover how research findings
are being used to promote science, or an overall view of research publications and
outputs by a specific group
25. Mission: Speeding transformative research discoveries to
patients and the community
Northwestern University Clinical and
Translational Sciences (NUCATS)
Institute Evaluation and Continuous
Improvement Program
http://nucats.northwestern.edu/ Some sample metrics…
OUTPUT Metrics
Time to Publication or other
output
Number of technology transfer
products
ROI of pilot awards
ROI of TL1, T32, KL2 scholars
Time from publication to
research synthesis
IMPACT Metrics
Influence of a research output
Researcher and institutional
collaborations
Career development and
path/trajectory
PROCESS Metrics
Time from IRB submission to
approval
Time from grant award to start
of study
Volume of investigators who use
services, take training, and other
activities
26. Seeking data
1. a better perspective of scholarly outputs for everyone
• Multiple sources covering multiple subjects and disciplines;
authoritative sources; Disambiguated and de-duplicated
1. a way to tie these outputs to institutional efforts,
systems, and workflows in a meaningful way grants
and to our IR
2. a way to track this information moving forward
3. a better perspective of scholarly outputs for everyone
• ORCID allows longitudinal tracking
• Diverse outputs
• Can be a compliment to survey data
• Helpful for alumni
Nobody gets excited about filling out annual data
reports and it is hard to track our scholars after they
leave our institution… ORCID offers us a way to make
that more automated with our profiling systems.
27. ORCID iDs & VIVO Profiles
Jon Corson-Rikert
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28. How do ORCID iDs and VIVO
profiles work together?
• In the VIVO-ISF ontology
• Through VIVO software extensions
• Examples
– Cornell
– George Washington University
– Texas A&M University
– University of Colorado-Boulder
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29. ORCID iDs in the VIVO-ISF
ontology
• The property vivo:orcidId is an object
property to support connecting VIVO and
ORCID in the linked data web
• The object value is a resource of the form
http://orcid.org/NNNN-NNNN-NNNN-NNNN
• VIVO displays the iD as a direct link to the
person’s ORCID record
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30. 2014 ORCID A&I Grant
• Cornell received a 2014 ORCID Adoption
and Integration grant, funded by the
Sloan Foundation
• Enabled VIVO as of the 1.7 release to
support communication between VIVO
and ORCID
• Create or confirm an ORCID iD directly
with ORCID from VIVO
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31. Dual Outcomes
• VIVO adds the ORCID iD to the person’s
VIVO profile and linked data
– Displays in VIVO as either
“confirmed” or “pending confirmation”
• VIVO requests permission to provide a
VIVO URI to ORCID
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34. Examples
• Cornell – simplest approach through
VIVO and orcid.cornell.edu
• George Washington University – pilot
profile population from ORCID records
• Texas A&M – creating ORCID iDs for
graduate students, adding them to
VIVO
• University of Colorado – creating ORCID
iDs for faculty members
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35. Cornell Low Key Approach
• Offer the opportunity to create or
confirm an ORCID iD through VIVO
– Complicated by separate faculty
reporting path for part of the campus
– Hoping to move the whole campus to
Symplectic Elements and also
leverage their ORCID integration
• orcid.cornell.edu available in the mean
time and for grad students
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36. George Washington University
• Part of a larger 5-university VIVO pilot
by the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA)
– Goal is to link researchers across 70
member institutions
• Justin Littman has pulled in publications
and other information from ORCID as a
proof of concept alternative to self-edit
for researchers not included in faculty
reporting
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38. Texas A&M University
• Also recipient of 2014 ORCID A&I grant
• Minted over 10,000 ORCID iDs and
added them to an internal-facing VIVO
• Focus on grad students, with intent to
expand to faculty
• Violeta Ilik modeled the data using
Karma and ingested into VIVO
– Karma data integration tool from USC
– http://www.isi.edu/integration/karma/
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39. TAMU ORCID Management App
Clement, Gail, Cooper, Micah, Hahn, Doug, Ilik, Violeta, Tucker, Sandy. "It Takes a Village to Grow ORCIDs on Campus: Establishing
and Integrating Unique Scholar Identifiers at Texas A&M" 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, May 6-7, 2014.
• Mint iDs
• Manage
existing
iDs
• Automate
publishing
40. University of Colorado-Boulder
• Again a VIVO-related recipient of 2014
ORCID A&I grant
• Joint initiative of the Office of Faculty
affairs and the Library
• ORCID iDs to be used in a number of
campus systems
– And shared with other university and
affiliated systems
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41. CU Boulder Process & Timeline
• April, 2014 – pre-registration communication
with campus
• July, 2014 – 3209 new registrations
– Tenure-track, instructors, research
faculty, but not temporary faculty
– 3 opt-out requests received
– 210 faculty with pre-existing ORCID iDs,
including 90 with emails at ORCID;
reconciled this information separately
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42. CU Boulder (continued)
• 22% of the faculty had claimed their
ORCID iD within 3 days
• As of 4/14/15:
– Total claimed = 1657
– Total deactivated ~12
– Total ORCID iDs registered= 3334
– Claim rate 49.7%
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43. Ongoing Implementation
• A new ORCID module is included on the
reporting tool used for the annual merit
process
– Shows the status of their ORCID iD
and helps the faculty get info to claim
or use their ORCID
• Added claimed ORCID iD hyperlink to
VIVO CU-Boulder profile pages
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45. CU Boulder Ongoing
Implementation (continued)
• Created view for department heads to see ORCID
iDs for their faculty including whether it has been
claimed
• Shared claimed ORCID iDs for Boulder faculty
with CCTSI partners at the CU Anschutz Medical
School to show on Colorado Profiles, a medical
research network for the University of Colorado
based on Harvard Profiles and PubMed data
• Renewed ORCID membership
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46. CU Boulder – Upcoming ToDos
• Rerun the registration process to pick up
about 550 new faculty hires
• Leverage new functionality in Symplectic
Elements around ORCID iD
• Consider new options for managing ORCID
registration for new hires (VIVO, Elements,
or others)
• Consider how/if we want to push or ingest
data to/from ORCID
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47. Colorado Research Diamond
• As part of Flagship 2030, CU hopes to
develop a collaborative enterprise
among regional universities, businesses,
government, and federal laboratories to
develop and apply new technologies
• ORCID iDs shared across VIVOs at
UNAVCO, NCAR, and CU Boulder will
help enable that vision
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http://www.colorado.edu/flagship2030/sites/default/files/attached-files/flagship_twopage_summary.pdf
49. “How much information should my
ORCID record have?”
“I have a VIVO profile so why should I
maintain one in ORCID too?”
•Bottom line is that it is a researcher
choice, they are in control
•A certain amount of information and
linking is very helpful
50. Minimal record
Registration is quick and easy,
just 30 seconds to enter
1. name
2. email
3. password
4. agree to privacy policy
A minimal ORCID record that is
enough to get an iD and use it
in research workflows
51.
52. Helpful ORCID record (1)
Reasons to add a little more information:
1.Provide enough information so that someone who
follows a link to your record, or searches for you, can
understand which "John Smith" you are
– alternate names
– education and employment information
– a few works. Everyone likes to show off their best
work …
– opens the door for disambiguation of existing data
53. Helpful ORCID record (2)
Reasons to add a little more information:
2.Provide other identifiers so that ORCID can act as a
switchboard to connect your identities in different
systems.
– local profile id (e.g. my VIVO id at Cornell)
– Scopus Author ID, Researcher ID, ISNI
– (Using the search and link wizards that connect to
these other systems is also the easiest way to add
works.)
54.
55. Expansive ORCID record
There are many import wizards for
– connection of an ORCID record to other identifiers
– import of works, grants, etc..
– source is recorded and provides way to assess trust
– manual entry also supported
UI groups information about the same
work from multiple sources
– user can select preferred one
56. You may make your ORCID record
a complete picture of your research
contributions if you choose.
But a complete record isn't
necessary for ORCID to work and
you can link to other profile
systems such as VIVO.
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57. ORCID and the Semantic Web
• An ORCID iD is a URI
• ORCID has limited support for RDF
• More work on 2015 roadmap
• New W3C report suggesting
improvements to clarify identifier
semantics
• Ivan Herman (W3C) serving on ORCID
Technical Steering Group
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58. Which person identifier?
ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, id.loc.gov,…?
•No single person identifier for all uses
•ORCID is researcher driven and designed
to be used in workflows:
“An ounce of ambiguity avoidance is
worth a pound of disambiguation”
•Workflow integration avoids name
ambiguity at source
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61. Profusion of Identifiers
Profusion of URIs for people
– Can ORCID provide crosswalking
services and function as a global
sameAs registry?
– ORCID already supports
researchers supplementing their
records with additional external
URIs -- this is a key use case for
ORCID
•What are the temporal aspects?
•How can goals of linked data be
achieved in concert with other groups
such as libraries, disciplinary
repositories, etc.
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63. VIVO, ORCID and others
ORCID and VIVO work together, and in
partnership with international organizations
to further data connections and the
applications of standards
•CASRAI – Project CRediT
•EuroCRIS
•Seeking use cases to address
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VIVO enables collaboration and understanding across an institution and among institutions
VIVO harvests much of its data automatically from verified sources so it is accurate and current, reducing the need for manual input.
The rich information in VIVO profiles can be repurposed and shared with other institutional web pages and consumers, reducing cost and increasing efficiencies across the institution.
Data is housed and maintained at the local institutions. There it can be updated on a regular basis.
Search results are faceted so information can be located rapidly and with less time spent sorting through information.
Profiles are largely created via automated data feeds, but can be customized to suit the needs of the individual.
Profiles are richer in content than typical [web pages or] social networking sites and will rank higher in general internet searches.
Across institutions VIVO provides a uniform semantic structure to enable a new class of tools using the data to advance science. …..visualizations, search, discovery, etc
Each institution provides its own VIVO system and data. Local governance determines data to be provided.
VIVO structures data in RDF triples using the VIVO ontology. Moreover, the recommendations state that as a general principle the profile data should be publically available as Linked Open Data. This announcement demonstrates the CTSA Consortium’s recognition of the value of semantic web standards and increasing momentum in support of semantic web technologies to facilitate research discovery. Examples of applications which consume these rich data, including: visualizations (Katy’s viz URL), enhanced multi-site search (VIVO search URL), and VIVO Searchlight (searchlight URL). Other utilities are in development across a wide range of functionalities.
Profiles are largely created via automated data feeds, but can be customized to suit the needs of the individual.
Information is open source (free) and is stored in a framework that allows for exporting to other applications.
Profiles are richer in content than typical [web pages or] social networking sites and will rank higher in general internet searches.
Not just the junior investigators
ORCID ID minted by PI or institution flows in from ORCID.org via SOA
ORCID ID entered on published content flows in via information vendors
ORCID ID entered on unpublished content flows in via institutional content repositories.
Profile Updates can be exchanged bi-directionally between ORCID.org and the institutional profiling systems
Mention the challenges of longitudinal tracking of scholars
the role ORCID is currently playing
how this could be enhanced through researcher information systems -- get an update on a researcher 10 years down the road
Northwestern impact analysis work
The Library’s new Metrics and Impact Core (MIC) is focused on leveraging the library resources and other sources of information at this institution and beyond for impact and justification support for grant submissions and renewals; support for faculty recruitment, tracking, and impact assessment activities; training for enhancing research impact and how to report outcomes to funding agencies; and data analysis and visualizations. The core’s impact and evaluation librarian provides advanced bibliometric and scientometric analysis and offers consultations and workshops on related topics (e.g., enhancing research impact, dissemination strategies, reporting outcomes and impact, visualization strategies).
Mission
Speeding transformative research discoveries to patients and the community
Strategic Goals
Speed translation and improve efficiency by integrating processes and programs that connect researchers with a continuum of resources, training, funding opportunities, and strategic partners
Develop and implement innovative systems to identify, evaluate, facilitate and disseminate scientific breakthroughs, and improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of clinical and translational research
Promote Northwestern's culture of collaboration, innovation and translation through team-building, education, and training to empower the multi-disciplinary translational research teams of tomorrow
Sample PROCESS, OUTPUT, and IMPACT metrics
How much information should my ORCID record have? This is a question I'm often asked by researchers when I discuss ORCID and the process of registering. … Do I have yet another profile to maintain? I want to talk about this not just because it is a frequently asked question, but also because it gets at some of the affordances and reasons for ORCID.
A minimal ORCID record is very quick and easy to create, 30 seconds. This is enough to get an iD and use it in research workflows – if it is used then it will become more helpful over time
Minimal record will show nothing public except for name and identifier. This page clearly isn’t very useful because when we arrive here we are left with the question “Which John Smith?”. However, the owner of this id is still able to login as part of verified workflows and use his id. He may wish not to add works to his profile but should he choose to do so then it will be easy and automatic via the round-trip described earlier – a simply matter of approving
While a minimal ORCID record facilitates the use of an ORCID iD, there are reasons to add a little more information. Perhaps two key reasons are 1) Provide enough information so that someone who follows a link to your record, or searches for you, can understand which "John Smith" you are, and 2) Provide other identifiers so that ORCID can act as a switchboard to connect your identities in different systems.
While a minimal ORCID record facilitates the use of an ORCID iD, there are reasons to add a little more information. Perhaps two key reasons are 1) Provide enough information so that someone who follows a link to your record, or searches for you, can understand which "John Smith" you are, and 2) Provide other identifiers so that ORCID can act as a switchboard to connect your identities in different systems.
With just a little more information added, we stand a very good chance of disambiguating this John Smith from another.
There are many import wizards which not only allow connection of an ORCID record to other identifies, and also import of works, grants, etc.. Users may also enter works themselves.
A key feature of the ORCID UI is grouping of duplicate work records based on work identifier (e.g. DOI). This allows multiple to work records from different sources to be stored, updated without overwriting each other, and yet the user may select the preferred one to view.
ORCID supports a number of wizards that connect to other systems such as Scopus, ResearcherID and ISNI. Cornell Library developed and integration with VIVO that is supported in a number of installations including our own. Links to systems not currently recognized a person or name identifiers can be added as website links too – I choose to link my github page for example.