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ORCID UPDATE
ORCID OUTREACH MEETING| OCTOBER 5, 2016
ALICE MEADOWS
Director – Community Engagement & Support
orcid.org / 0000-0003-2161-3781
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Image: wikimedia

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SUSTAIN!
• Global Update – Doug Wright
• Asia Pacific - Nobuko Miyairi
• Europe - Josh Brown
• Latin America - Lilian Pessoa
• Middle East/Africa – Matt Buys

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ORCID ADOPTION
• 536 members from 39 countries
• 60% growth in membership
• 14 regional and national consortia
• 57% of membership from consortia

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Asia Pacific
15%
Europe
50%
Latin America
1%
Middle East & Africa
4%
North America
30%
ORCID ADOPTION
Publisher/Asso
ciation
14%
Funder
3%
Government
2%
Repository/Pro
file Org
6%
Research
Institute
75%

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NORTH AMERICA

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NORTH AMERICA
• 4 regional consortia in US
• 159 members
• Government entities: NASA, EPA, DOE
• Canadian national consortium end of 2016

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NORTH AMERICA
2017 plans:
• Continue building on regional consortium
model
• Further government agency rollout
• Focus on integrations with current members

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ASIA PACIFIC

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ORCID MEMBERS IN APAC
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Japan
• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• China
• Korea
• India
• Malaysia
• Sri Lanka
• Singapore

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China 105,417
Japan 43,828
India 41,261
South Korea 28,534
Taiwan 16,090
Hong Kong 8,765
Malaysia 11,110
Singapore 6,067
Indonesia 4,838
ID COUNTS IN APAC

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3. Outreach & cultivate community
2. Onboard more members
2017 FOCUS IN APAC
iD holders & Registry growth
Membergrowth
China
Japan
India
South Korea
TaiwanHong Kong
MalaysiaSingapore
Indonesia
Australia
New Zealand
1. Consortia support

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EUROPE

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EUROPE
• National consortia emerging
as the dominant model –
New consortia so far this
year in BE, DE, FI, NL
(adding to our consortia in
DK, IT and UK)
• Workshops in BE, DE, DK,
ES, FI, FR, IE, NL, PL, PT,
UK

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EUROPE
• Funded pilots for workflows (e.g. managing
APCs) in two countries
• Integrated into institutional single sign on
• More funders using ORCID – iDs required or
collected in AT, IE, IT, PT, SE, UK
• European Commission and Science Europe
both recommending ORCID iDs

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ADOPTION IN ITALY
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new ORCID Cumulative ORCID
5-10 Universities / week

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EUROPE
2017 plans:
• Build on national adoption in FR, SE, TR
• Outreach in Eastern Europe
• Integrate with international infrastructures
and platforms

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LATIN AMERICA

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LATIN AMERICA
Increased general awareness
of ORCID for researchers
and institutions
• 39% more traffic to orcid.org
• 50% more registrations
• 13% of new registrations

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LATIN AMERICA
• 3 key Brazilian universities responsible for 51% of
the Brazilian scientific production (25% of Latin
America) are now ORCID members
• Workshops Mexico, Brazil, Colombia – over 250
attendees
• Continue conversations with government
agencies in key Latam countries

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LATIN AMERICA
2017 plans:
• Continuous work with key countries:
Brazil, Mexico and Colombia
• Establish partnership with Brazilian Publisher
Association
• Outreach Argentina, Chile and Peru

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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Registry traffic growth
• 100% increase in Africa
• 50% increase in Middle
East
Increased integrations

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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Local
data
Surfacing dissertations
Infrastructure
Funder workflows
Publisher workflows
Research workflows
Outreach

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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
• Positive growth in South Africa, funder mandate
• Consortium discussions in South Africa and Egypt
• New members in East Africa
• Partnerships
• New memberships in UAE (top ranked
institutions)
• Discussions with NREN in South Africa

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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
2017 plans:
• Middle East and North Africa will be the main
focus
• Consortium to be established in South Africa
• Grow membership across Botswana, Namibia
and Mauritius
• Outreach in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania,
Ethiopia)

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LEAD!
• Community Engagement –
Matt Buys & Alainna Wrigley
• Collect & Connect – Alice
Meadows
• Outreach – Alice Meadows
• Organization iDs – Josh
Brown & Tom Demeranville

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FULL PHOTO PAGE SAMPLE:
• Town Halls
• Ambassadors Program
• Community Working Groups
Image: wikimedia

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RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
LARGE IMPORTED GRAPHIC PAGE SAMPLE:
Modifications to master were to pull up the header to make more room.
Also used crop tool to keep image from being “clipped”

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ORCID Pi Day
New ORCID messaging

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“THE USE OF PIDS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
LAGS BEHIND THE USE OF… IDENTIFIERS
FOR RESEARCH OUTPUTS AND PEOPLE,
AND MORE WORK IS NEEDED.”
MARTIN FENNER, DATACITE

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FULL PHOTO PAGE SAMPLE:
• Town Halls
• Community Working Groups
• Ambassadors Program
Reykjavik, November 9-10

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MATURE!
• ORCID Trust – Laura Paglione
• ORCID Elections – Laura
Paglione
• What’s New in Tech 2016? –
Robert Peters

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ORCID TRUST
• Privacy & user control
• Data security & integrity
• System reliability
• Governance & Community accountability
Launching next week at
https://orcid.org/about/trust/home
NEW PROGRAM: FOCUS TO ORCID'S POLICIES & PRACTICES FOR:

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ORCID ELECTIONS
• First year
• Members notified
• Elections in Nov/Dec
• Ask us if you have any
questions!
Image: wikimedia

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OPEN FONT
CURRENT
NEW
● Open license ($0/yr)
● Supports all Unicode
Scripts
● End of outside developer
frustration - priceless!
● Proprietary (~$400/yr)
● Doesn’t support all
languages

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SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN
• Facebook: 7,230 user
connections
• Google: 6,515 user connections
• Institutional: 6,502 user
connections
• 472 different Institution
gateways! (and growing)

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• Only 4 Scopes
• Multiple, clean XSDs
• Item based
V2 API: SCALABILITY
Simpler API Interactions

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V2 API: ADDED CLARITY
Display index
Last modified
Activities Summary

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PERSON V2 UI: MORE DETAILS
Ordering
Source
Last modified
Privacy

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TEAM GROWTH
QA manual testing &
Dedicated tier 1 support
QA & Server Automation
Engineer
Senior Java Engineer -
Starts October 24th!

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NEW TOOLING FOR TRANSLATIONS
• Internal tracking of out of sync translations
• Crowdsourcing translations

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BUT...2016 ISN’T OVER YET!
• Member + consortia directory

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INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN CROSS-LINK

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ON DEMAND PUBLIC DUMP
• Real time
• Ability to sync
• Sharding structure
• Supports 1.2 and 2.0
(Latest RC)
• Sync JSON, XML or both

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MEMBER-REQUESTED EXTERNAL ID
TYPES
There are loads of different
identifiers out there
Different communities require
different identifiers
It’s hard for us to know which our
members require
The solution? Let members
request new types!

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REFACTORING FOR GROWTH