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ORCID at Scale:
Approaches to Adoption and Implementation
ORCID Toronto Workshop
May 17, 2016
Alice Meadows
Director of Community Engagement & Support
a.meadows@orcid.org
orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781
@alicejmeadows

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OurVision
ORCID’s vision is a world where
all who participate in research, scholarship, and
innovation are uniquely identified
and connected to their contributions and
affiliations across time, disciplines, and borders.

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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish researchers
from each other
Member-built integrations for automated links between
researchers and their activities/affiliations
A hub for machine-readable connections between
identifiers for organizations, funding, outputs, and people
ORCID provides
✔ Plumbing for research information
✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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Collect & Connect goals
• Clarify goals and expectations across sectors
• Standardize and improve the user experience
• Improve understanding and trust in connections made
between ORCID and other identifiers
• Increase efficiency and quality of integrations
• Help achieve the ORCID vision through a community
approach
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Integrations by region
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15%
52%1%
2%
30% Asia Pacific
Europe
Latin America
Mid East & Africa
US/Canada

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Integrations by sector
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7%
5%
16%
10%62%
Associations
Funders
Publishers
Repositories/Profile
organizations
Research institutions

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Collect & Connect
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Collect
Display Connect
Synch
Authenticate!

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Collect
Collect validated ORCID iDs for individuals
To ensure that they are correctly connected with your
institution
Converis, Pure, Symplectic Elements,VIVO use the OAuth process
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Display
Display iDs on your website, platform,
systems
To signal to your researchers and the wider community
that you have plumbed your systems to support their use
of ORCID iDs
http://orcid.org/trademark-and-id-display-guidelines
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Connect
Connect information about their affiliation,
awards, works to your researchers’ ORCID
records
To enable them to easily provide validated information to
other systems and profiles they use
https://orcid.org/blog/2015/10/26/auto-update-has-arrived-orcid-records-move-
next-level
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Synchronize
Synchronize with your own systems
To save your researchers time, enable better reporting and
analysis, improve information flow with other systems
https://members.orcid.org/api/tutorial-webhooks
https://orcid.org/blog/2015/10/26/auto-update-has-arrived-orcid-records-move-
next-level
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Community resources
• Map existing integrations
• Best practices and use cases
• Updated info on members.orcid.org
• Resources and collateral for researchers
• ORCID engagement/awareness campaign
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Map existing integrations
“we are trying to
become “Gold” – nice
and shiny partners with
ORCID”
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Best practices and use cases
• Sample text to use when describing ORCID and your
organization’s engagement with the registry
• Graphics, videos, use cases
• Badges to signal member engagement level in the Collect &
Connect program
• Code samples, workflows, and tutorials for API use, development
and testing
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Updates to members.orcid.org
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Resources, collateral for researchers
• Examples include:
• Researcher workflow infographics
• Sofia Maria video
• Relevant blog posts
• Researcher use cases, testimonials
• Membership and integration lists
• Mini-videos of how ORCID works
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Engagement/awareness campaign
• Activities include:
• Series of blog posts
• Social media campaign
• Speaking engagements
• Ambassador outreach
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