1. ORCID Update & Other Researcher Identifiers
VIVO Collaboration awarded one of five collaborative research grants to ORCID in January 2011!
Mellon Grant awarded to MIT, Harvard, Cornell to study ORCID business models in 2011
ORCID Update & Other Researcher Identifiers
ORCID Outreach Meeting
16 September 2011
Howard Ratner
Chairman, ORCID, Inc.
CTO, Executive VP, Nature Publishing Group
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to update you on ORCID and the many researcher identifier initiatives out there. Special thanks to John Sack who raised the question to this group.

2. Here is our goal…

3. 10 Principles
ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors.
ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, national and institutional, boundaries.
Participation in ORCID is open to any organization that has an interest in scholarly communications.
Access to ORCID services will be based on transparent and non-discriminatory terms posted on the ORCID website.
Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge.
We have publicly announced our 10 principles. They govern everything that ORCID does.

4. 10 Principles
Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID profile data.
All profile data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will be available in standard formats for free download (subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a year and released under the CC0 waiver.
All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source Software license approved by the Open Source Initiative. For the software it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.
ORCID identifiers and profile data (subject to privacy settings) will be made available via a combination of “no charge” and “for a fee” APIs and services. Any fees will be set to ensure the sustainability of ORCID as a not-for-profit, charitable organization focused on the long-term persistence of the ORCID system.
ORCID will be governed by representatives from a broad cross-section of stakeholders, the majority of whom are not-for-profit, and will strive for maximal transparency by publicly posting summaries of all board meetings and annual financial reports.

5. Key Constituents Why? Joins faculty Joins student body
Helps track output of faculty and students
Researcher
Helps perform research assessment of grantees
While working on ORCID, I have learned that there are three times when researchers seem to care the most about their researcher identity…
This marries up well to the three main constituents of ORCID: Academia, Funders, Publishers.
Applies for grant
Streamline data input
Creates author links
- to publications
- to collaborators
- to other forms of
communication
Submits
Manuscript

6. 250+ Participants
ORCID started with around 20 participants and by August 2011 we have 250 participants from around the world representing the entire scholarly communication ecosystem.

7. Newest Participants (Jun-Aug 2011)
Here are some of our newest participants: Mekentosj – provider of the Papers application (Netherlands); Tehran University (Iraq); Scope (Commercial service); Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria); Institute of Science and Technology (Austria); National Institute of Pharmaceutical and Education & Reseach (India); University of Praetoria (South Africa); University of Western Ontario (Canada); University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Canada); University of Alberta (Canada); Seoul National University (Korea); Brazilian Institute of Information on Science and Technology (Brazil)

8. ORCID is open to any organization with an
interest in scholarly communication
We are seeing about 12 new participants every month. Academic institutions are the fastest growing segment.

9. ORCID transcends discipline, geographic,
national and institutional boundaries
We currently have participants from 38 different countries within ORCID.
250 participating organizations as of 1 August 2011

10. Timeline 2010 Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Build Sandbox
Alpha Prototyping
ORCID Members Demonstration and Alpha Testing
Organization Creation
Every progress report deserves a Gantt chart. You can see that 2010 was mostly dedicated to establishing the not-for-profit organization, defining our principles and scope, and testing some preliminary (alpha) software.
Wellcome /MIT Survey
Principles/Scope Defined
Alpha Testing
Profile Exchange Research & Development

11. Timeline
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q4 2012
Build Phase 1 - Semantico
Start Registering ORCIDs
Build Phase 2
2011 is about building the system and defining the business using sponsorship to stay afloat. If all goes well we will have our first phase system ready in early 2012 in time for the ORCID board to take a decision about going live. This is a big decision as once we start registering ORCIDs, we are committed to making them persistent.
Sponsorship Drive 1 $244K
Sponsorship Drive 2
$250 Goal
Staff Hired
Start Collecting Fees
VIVO Technology Research
Mellon Marketing Research
Profile Exchange Research & Development

12. Author - ORCID – Publisher Interaction
Researcher Profile
Updated
ORCID<->DOI pairings
submitted to ORCID
Researcher
Registers
Author - ORCID – Publisher
Interaction
Here is the main way in which we see publishers and their authors interacting with ORCID. This will allow publishers to light up all of those author links with information about authors.
Metadata, along with ORCID
deposited to CrossRef
ORCID passed to
manuscript submission
system
Content Published
Manuscript processed

13. Scope (ORCID phase 1 system)
ORCID will build a central registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars with the following scope:
ORCID will focus on currently active researchers
Data will come from individuals and organizations
ORCID will be a hybrid system of self- and organization-asserted identity
Data collected will be those needed for disambiguation - extra data for optionally creating full CV-like profiles might be added in the future
System will provide basic matching and disambiguation of names
ORCID system will, from the start, enable 3rd parties to build value added services using ORCID infrastructure
ORCID services will be developed based on the needs of the ORCID community
Here is a brief look at ORCID Phase 1.

14. Researchers will be able to register themselves
Researchers will be able to register themselves. Institutions will also be able to so on their behalf. Ultimate control of the record will be subject to privacy settings.

15. = more credible assertion
Self-asserted + socially-validated + organizationally-asserted identity
= more credible assertion
Socially-Validated
Identity
Organizationally-Validated
Identity
Self-Asserted
Identity
(Credit: Geoff Bilder)
ORCID will ultimately combine the strengths of self-asserted, socially-validated, and organizationally-asserted identity systems.
self-asserted identity systems are familiar to us from the internet, where most non-commerce systems are self-asserted. In other words, the subject chooses what to say about themselves. In ORCID- researchers will be able to edit and manage their own profiles.
socially-validated identity systems work by exploiting others in the network to provide a check on self-assertion. So, for instance, popular technical advice sites like “Stack Overflow” use peers to check and validate advice given by other members of the community. ORCID- being an system open to all researchers- will enable researchers to inspect each others claims and assertions.
organizationally-asserted identity are the gold standard of identity, in that they are considered to be the most reliable- but also the most expensive to run (think DMV or passport office). Still ORCID will also encourage organizations to make assertions about researchers as well, such as:
a) Brown University asserts that Josiah Carberry is a faculty member
b) Mellon Foundation asserts Josiah Carberry was awarded a grant
c) Nature asserts that Josiah Carberry was the author of this paper
By exploiting the best of these different identity approaches- we aim to distribute the work of disambiguation and quality control amongst all the major ORCID stakeholders.
Disambiguated
Identity

16. Phase 1 Disambiguation Concept
Credit: Geoff Bilder

17. Assertion Collection Concept
Trusted Linking Partners
Credit: Geoff Bilder ORCID will start with self-claims and organizationally-asserted claim sources as we begin to build our Claim Store.

18. More Assertions = More Credibility
Credit: Geoff Bilder

19. ORCID plans to be the one to bridge the other scholarly author identification systems by registering the identifiers of all other relevant standalone services (silos big and small)

20. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
Contributor ID (CrossRef) (
prototype concept project of CrossRef whose learnings have been rolled into ORCID (general science)
CrossRef is an ORCID participant and board member
Scopus Author Identifier (
standalone commercial service (general science)
Elsevier is an ORCID participant, board member, and Business and Technical Working Group member
ResearcherID (Thomson Reuters) (
standalone service that provided much of the basis for ORCID (general science)
T-R is an ORCID participant, board member, and Business and Technical Working Group member
RePeC (Research Papers in Economics) (
standalone not-for-profit service (Economics)
RePeC is an ORCID participant and active Technical Working Group member
Names Project (
standalone not-for-profit project backed by JISC (UK government)
JISC is an ORCID participant and Technical Working Group member
There are many silo initiatives: subject specific, government-sponsored, society specific. Most if not all have value. Let’s look at a few.

21. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
VIVO (
NIH funded national network of scientists run by institutions. (Biomedicine)
VIVO software installed locally and provides semantic web-compliant date into network
ORCID participant and funder
ArXiv author identifiers (
standalone service (Physics)
Cornell is an ORCID participant and board member
International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) (
separate initiative started by RROs for RROs. Identifies everything including fictional names and names of things (think boats)
Supported by Proquest/Bowker
ORCID is trying to find a way to engage with ISNI in a mutually beneficial way
Lattes (
Used by Brazilian MCT [Science and Technology Ministry], FINEP [Projects and Studies Financing], CAPES/MEC [Personal Improvement Coordination/Ministry of Education], and all institutional actors, such as the Brazilian scientific community, as a curricular information system. (Brazilian Government)
evaluation of competences of candidates to scholarships and/or research support
selection of consultants, members of committees and advising groups
VIVO participant and in discussions with ORCID
Digital Author Identifier (DAI)
a new one! Not affiliated with ORCID

22. Other Researcher ID Initiatives
Society Initiatives
ACM Digital Library
AIP UniPhy
American Chemical Society
IEEE …
NLM PubMed Author Profile
Google Academic Profiles
Microsoft Academic Search
More information found at Martin Fenner’s Blog:
Almost every society has some kind of name project under way. It is not a surprise to see that many societies are ORCID participants. Martin Fenner, the chair of the ORCID Outreach Group is writing a comprehensive article about Researcher Identifiers. You can follow his progress via his blog. If you know of others, please send them to me or Martin Fenner.

23. What Makes ORCID Different?
Only not-for-profit contributor identifier initiative dedicated to an open and global service focused on scholarly communication
ORCID is backed by a non-profit organization with over 250 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
ORCID is the only researcher identifier that is not limited to discipline, institution or geographic area
ORCID is the one to bridge them all by registering the identifiers of all other relevant standalone services (silos big and small)
So what makes ORCID different?

24. ORCID plans to be the one to bridge the other scholarly author identification systems by registering the identifiers of all other relevant standalone services (silos big and small)

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