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ORCID: A simple basis for digital data governance

Matthew Buys Regional Director, ORCID

m.buys@orcid.org http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684

The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional

activities. •  Name variations:

§ Matthew J Buys, MJ Buys, M Buys, Matthew John Buys, 修 入, МэтьюБайс

•  Institutional variations: § ORCID, ORCID Incorporated, ORCID Inc, ORCID

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Why is there a problem?

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Algorithms cannot solve this

•  Different versions (full name vs. initials)

•  Shared names •  Transliteration •  ALT characters •  Name changes •  Multiple family names

J. Å. S. Sørensen

J. Aa. S. Sørensen

J. Åge S. Sørensen

J. Aage S. Sørensen

J. Åge Smærup Sørensen

J. Aage Smaerup Sørensen

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Can names be cleaned up? Of course they can!

We need to use digital names: persistent identifiers that uniquely specify the person, organization, or

object to which a name refers

What do IDs do, exactly?

①  Enable machine readability ②  Disambiguate and enforce

uniqueness ③  Enable linking and data integration

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ORCID is Open

•  Non-proprietary and platform-neutral

•  International service that integrates with other researcher identifiers

•  Registry use is free for individuals

•  Independent non-profit membership organization

•  Open data, software, APIs, and documentation

•  Discoverability of research activities in databases and institutional record management

•  It is a challenge to find the unique researchers or institution without a unique persistent iD (ORCID)

•  ORCID allows for simple searching of a specific iD and creates an authority record i.e. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684

First challenge

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• Output tracking, research reporting and impact assessment

•  It is extremely difficult for an institution to conduct research evaluation without a unique persistent iD (ORCID) or an institutional iD

•  Persistent IDs enable better research evaluation

and improved integrity of data in the digital research ecosystem

Second challenge

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RIMS Finance Institutional Repository

Grant Systems

Interoperability???

Research Data

Institutional Challenge: Silo Systems

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Solution: ORCID enables interoperability

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ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from each other and links them to an organization identifier

ORCID record

And links activities… Professional activities (Education, Employment, Funding and Works) can be added by an individual or automatically by an ORCID member organization through the API – as well biography

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Trusted connections

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PublisherAuthor ORCID

Identifiers support unambiguous assertions and notifications of “person-organization-works”

ORCID connects systems

Research Information Management

Systems

Repositories

Publisher Manuscript Submission

Grant Submission

System

Proprietary & Open

Data Systems/Indexes

Other Institutional

Systems (HR,

Finance…)

•  Provides systems to system connections

•  (Semi-) automates flow of information

•  Improves efficiency and reduces administrative burden

•  Includes a persistent iD (ORCID iD) for uniqueness and interoperability (exchange of information between systems)

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The ORCID API

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Organizations are collaborating to ensure persistent identifiers for people, places, and things are connected in research workflows

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ORCID enables assertions

ORCID community integrations

•  Funders: COLLECT iDs at grant submission and review; PUBLISH with award; POST grant IDs researcher record; RECEIVE updates

•  Universities: COLLECT iDs for new staff and students, at thesis submission, in faculty profile systems; POST affiliation IDs; RECEIVE updates

•  Publishers and Repositories: COLLECT iDs for authors, contributors, and reviewers; PUBLISH iD with work, POST paper, dataset, review IDs; RECEIVE updates

•  Associations: COLLECT iDs for members, authors, and meeting participants; POST affiliation and presentation IDs; RECEIVE updates

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Adoption of ORCID

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2,014,627 ORCID iDs and counting 12,121,523 Works activities (publications, data sets, patents and other research outputs) 150,378 Funding activities 704,751 Employment activities

Membership options

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Feature Basic Member API

Premium Member API

Number of system integrations (client credentials) One (1) Five (5)

Get an individuals authenticated ORCID iD ✓ ✓

Search/retrieve data ✓ ✓ Notification of an update to a researchers ORCID record (webhooks)   ✓

Add to and update ORCID records ✓ ✓ Facilitated creation of new ORCID Records for your researchers ✓ ✓

Documentation/Knowledgebase ✓ ✓

Peer support group ✓ ✓

Webinar/email support ✓ ✓

Public data file dump 2x annually Monthly

Custom API usage reports 2x annually (generic) Monthly (custom)

ORCID newsletter 2x annually Monthly

Automatic notifications

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ORCID Record Publisher or Repository

University Library

Funders

submission

ACCEPTED!

notification to preprint

repository

NEW INFO!

Faculty Profiles

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…. enter data once and reuse this many times. Key functions: •  Standard/compliant CVs •  Interoperable systems •  Public presence of research •  Embed unique identifiers into the workflow •  Compliance with standards •  Accurate reporting

Enabling innovation through functional information management systems

Digital ecosystem of the future

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Data governance

Data governance refers to the management, availability, usability, integrity, and security of data ①  Enable machine readability ②  Disambiguate and enforce uniqueness ③  Enable linking and data integration

ORCID identifiers provide a

simple basis for digital data governance

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The ability to uniquely identify contributors is a deceptively simple

concept which, if realised, could enable forms of real-time understanding of scientific research that up to now have

been extremely costly (if not impossible). --Jonathan Kram, Wellcome Trust

Closing remarks

•  Find out more at http://orcid.org

•  Register at http://orcid.org/register

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Thank you!

Matthew Buys Regional Director, ORCID

m.buys@orcid.org http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684