Presented at the "Twelfth Annual ARIES EMUG Users Group Meeting". The presentation embedded below provides an overview of ORCID researcher identifiers; their role in integrating systems for managing, evaluating, and tracking scholarly outputs; and the broader integration of researcher identifiers with publication, funder, and institutional identifiers.

1. orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Integrating ORCID, Funding, and
Institutional Identifiers
Twelfth Annual Editorial User Group Meeting (EMUG), June 2014
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700
Micah Altman, PhD
Director of Research, MIT Libraries
Member of ORCID Board,
escience@mit.edu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-6960

2. Then
Integrating Researcher
Identifiers into the
Clarke, Beverly L. "Multiple authorship
trends in scientific papers." Science
143.3608 (1964): 822-824.
Then

3. Now
Integrating Researcher
Identifiers into the
Now

4. Now is More
Integrating Researcher
Identifiers into the

5. Change Happens
• Authorship is changing
• Authors are changing
• Works are changing
• Evaluation is changing
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6. Multiple Names
• J. Å. S. Sørensen
• J. Aa. S. Sørensen
• J. Å. S. Sorensen
• J. Aa. S. Sorensen
• J. Å. S. Soerensen
• J. Aa. S. Soerensen
• Jens Å. S. Sørensen
• Jens Aa. S. Sørensen
• Jens Å. S. Sorensen
• Jens Aa. S. Sorensen
• Jens Å. S. Soerensen
• Jens Aa. S.
Soerensen
• J. Åge S. Sørensen
• J. Aage S. Sørensen
• J. Åge S. Sorensen
• J. Aage S. Sorensen
• J. Åge S. Soerensen
• J. Aage S. Soerensen
• Jens Åge S. Sørensen
• Jens Aage S. Sørensen
• Jens Åge S. Sorensen
• Jens Aage S. Sorensen
• Jens Åge S. Soerensen
• Jens Aage S. Soerensen
An illustrative example: Jens Åge Smærup Sørense
• J. Åge Smærup Sørensen
• J. Aage Smaerup Sørensen
• J. Åge Smarup Sorensen
• J. Aage Smarup Sorensen
• J. Åge Smaerup Soerensen
• J. Aage Smaerup Soerensen
• Jens Åge Smærup Sørensen
• Jens Aage Smaerup Sørensen
• Jens Åge Smarup Sorensen
• Jens Aage Smarup Sorensen
• Jens Åge Smærup Soerensen
• Jens Aage Smaerup Soerensen
And on and on it goes …

7. Common Names
“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/2008/080213/full/451766a.html
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http://ands.org.au/newsletters/share_issue18.pdf

8. Name Changes
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9. Multiple Disciplines
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Narcolepsy
Hibernation
Stanford Univ.
1988-1991
Circadian Rhythms
Glutamate
Receptors
Stanford Univ.
1997-2006
Postdoc Policy
AAAS
2001-2003
Calcium Sparks
Neuron-Glial
Signals
Potassium
Channels
NIH
1997-2002
Science Workforce
Women in Science
Interdisciplinary
Research
NAS
2003-2007
Research Policy &
Infrastructure
Evaluation Metrics
Discovery Logic
2007-2012
????One person or many

10. idea
People
Team
Collaborations
Trainees
Affiliations
Employer
Professional Associations
Education
Funding
Grants
Contracts
Seed Funding
Coop Agreements
Publications
Journal Articles
Books
Patents
Legal Briefs
Algorithms
Software Code
Datasets
Physical Objects
Electronic Files
Protein Structures
Genetic
SequencesImpacts
Policy
Legal
Health
Environment
Education
Product Development
Spin Off
Workforce
Service Activities
Peer Review
Working Groups
Leadership Positions
Training and Mentoring
Multiple Contribution
Types

11. What does ORCID do?
ORCID provides a unique and
persistent identifier that can be
used throughout one’s career,
across professional activities,
affiliations, and languages
More than a registry, ORCID iDs
are integrated in standard
workflows and embedded in
works metadata so moving
forward there is no more mess
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12.  ORCID provides a free, non-proprietary registry of persistent
unique identifiers for researchers, scholars, and analysts
 ORCID iDs are embedded in research systems and ORCID
provides APIs that enable the interoperable exchange of
information between systems
 ORCID code is open source and we support community
efforts to develop tools and services
 ORCID iDs link to other research information identifiers
ORCID
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 ORCID record data marked
public by researchers is
published annually

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Other
Identifiers
Funders
Higher
Education
and
Employers
Professional
Associations
Repositories
Publishers
ORCID is an identifier hub
• ORCID connects
researchers with
their works (papers,
grants, datasets, and
more), organizations,
and other identifiers
• ORCID uses
CASRAI definitions
• ORCID data and
APIs are open and
enable exchange
between research
systems
ISNI
Researcher ID
Scopus Author ID
Internal identifiers
FundRef
GrantID
ISNI
Ringgold ID
Member ID
Abstract ID
DOI
ISBN
Thesis ID
DOI
(accept many more)

14. ORCID is an information
hub
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 Biographical Data
 Education Data
(ISNI/Ringgold)
 Employment Data
(ISNI/Ringgold)
 Works Data
(DOI, ISBN, PubMedID
 Funding Data
(FundRef)
Other iDs 
(ISNI, Scopus
Author ID,
ResearcherID)
Name
Variations 

15. Adoption and Integration
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ORCID has issued over 725,000 iDs
since our launch in October 2012.
Adoption and use is international.
EMEA
35%
America
s
50%
AsiaPac
15%
Over 130 members, from
every sector of the
international research
community
Publishing
25%
Univ &
Research Org
41%
Funders
7%
Associations
15%
Repos and
Profile Sys
12%
-
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
Creator
Website
Trusted Party

16. Who is
Integrating
and How?
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• Research Funders
• Professional Associations
• Publishers
• Universities and Research Orgs
• Repositories, CRIS, Metrics Sites
For a list of organizations and integrations see
http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators

17. AIP Publishing, AIRITI, Aries, Atlas, Cactus, Copernicus,
EBSCO, Elsevier, EDP Sciences, eJournal Press, eLife,
Epistemio, Flooved, Hindawi, Infra-M Academic Publishing,
Jnl Bone and Joint Surgery, Karger, Landes Bioscience,
National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Oxford University
Press, Peerage of Science, PLOS, Rockefeller University
Press, RNAi, ScienceOpen, Springer, Taylor & Francis,
Wiley, Wolters Kluwer
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Manuscript submission workflow

18. How are
Universities
Integrating?
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For more on university integrators see
http://orcid.org/organizations/researchorgan
izations
• Get an ORCID iD and insert it in LDAP
system, CRIS, dissertation thesis, or
directory
• Get Data from an ORCID Record and
export into a CRIS or update a repository
• Enable import
of CRIS data into
an ORCID Record
• Link to identifiers
in your system
• Create an iD for your faculty, staff, and
students and pre-populate with affiliation
and works information
Boston Univ, CalTech, Cambridge Univ,
Chalmers Univ Tech, Charles Darwin Univ,
Chinese Academy of Sciences Library, CERN,
Cornell Univ, EMBL (EBI), FHCRC, Glasgow
Univ, Harvard Univ, IFPRI, Karolinska Inst,
KACST, KISTI, Consorcio Madroño,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, MIT, MSKCC,
National Institute of Informatics, National Taiwan
Univ College of Medicine, National Taiwan
Normal Univ, NYU Langone Medical Center,
Oxford University, Penn State, Purdue Univ,
Riga Technical Univ, SUNY-Stonybrook,
Stockholm Univ, Texas A&M Univ, Univ Bern,
Univ. Cadiz, Univ Carlos III de Madrid, Univ
Oviedo, Univ Zaragoza, Univ College London,
Univ Colorado, Univ Hong Kong, Univ Kansas,
Univ Manchester, Univ Michigan, Univ Missouri,
Univ Politécnica Madrid, Univ Washington

19. Support by CRIS vendors
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20. Repository Integration
• DataCite
• DSpace (UM)
• ePrints (Bern)
• EThOS (BL)
• HUBzero (UND)
• Hydra/Fedora (Purdue)
• InSPIRE (CERN)
• Vireo (TAMU)
• Reactome
More at http://orcid.org/blog/2014/03/10/orcid-repositories-and-
researchers
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21. Third party tools: Metrics
http://impactstory.org
Now part of SUSHI
protocol metadata
for article-level
metrics
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Use your ORCID iD
to obtain usage
metrics for your
publications
http://www.projectcounter.org/
documents/Pirus_cop_OCT20
13.pdf

22. RINGOLD Integration
• ORCID uses RINGOLD
identifiers for institutions
• Seamlessly integrated into
UI , API, and registry
metadata
• ORCID records include
source tags  strong
validation of affiliation, and
other information added by
institution
• Crosswalk to ISNI
organizational identifiers is
coming soon
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More at http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/276884-
organizations-in-orcid-ringgold-identifiers

23. FundRef Integration
• ORCID supports FundRef
identifiers
• Seamlessly integrated
into UI , API, and registry
metadata
• Search and link wizards
can push FundRef
identifiers into ORCID with
other information about
each grant
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More at
http://orcid.org/blog/2014/02/19/link-your-orcid-record-your-funding

24. ORCID is an independent non-profit
organization supported by member fees
We provide an open registry of unique
identifiers for researchers, and APIs for the
community to embed identifiers in research
systems and workflows
Data marked public by researchers is published
annually by ORCID under a CC0 waiver
ORCID code is available on our GitHub open
source repository and we support community
efforts to develop tools and services
How do we do it?
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25. • Find out more at http://orcid.org
• More on membership at
http://orcid.org/about/membership
• Learn about tools to embed ORCID iDs at
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/
• Subscribe to our blog at http://orcid.org/about/news
and follow @ORCID_Org on Twitter
• Contact the ORCID Executive Director at
l.haak@orcid.org
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Thank you!