ORCID Organization Update Participants Meeting 18 May 2011 Howard Ratner Chairman, ORCID, Inc. CTO, Executive VP Nature Publishing Group

Key Constituents Researcher Joins faculty Joins student body Applies for grant Submits Manuscript Helps track output of faculty and students Helps perform research assessment of grantees Streamline data input Creates author links - to publications - to collaborators - to other forms of communication Why?

220 Participants

Newest Participants (Jan-May 2011)

Timeline 2010 Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Alpha Prototyping Profile Exchange Research & Development ORCID Members Demonstration and Alpha Testing Organization Creation Build Sandbox Principles/Scope Defined Wellcome /MIT Survey Alpha Testing

Timeline (draft) Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Profile Exchange Research & Development Start Registering ORCIDs Build Phase 1 Start Collecting Fees Sponsorship Drive 1 Sponsorship Drive 2 Build Phase 2 Staff Hired Mellon Marketing Research VIVO Technology Research

Board of Directors (October 2010) Chair, Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group* Treasurer, David Kochalko, Thomson Reuters* Secretary, Amy Brand, Harvard University* Bernard Rous, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.* Salvatore Mele, CERN — European Organization for Nuclear Research Simeon Warner, Cornell University Library Ed Pentz, CrossRef/Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.* Chris Shillum, Elsevier Martin Fenner, Hannover Medical School MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics (NII) (Japan) Thomas Hickey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust* Craig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.* *Executive Committee 10

Working Group Chairs Business Working Group – Craig Van Dyck / Ed Pentz Technical Working Group – Brian Wilson Outreach Working Group – Martin Fenner Audit Committee – Craig Van Dyck Nominating Committee - tbd 11

What Makes ORCID Different? ORCID is the only researcher identifier that is not limited to discipline, institution or geographic area ORCID is backed by a non-profit organization with over 220 participants behind it ORCID is backed by many different stakeholders Publishers are an important ORCID stakeholder but are just one part ORCID is serious about building an open system