ORCID, a Technological Stanley

David Kochalko, Thomson Reuters, ORCID DirectorThe Charleston ConferenceThursday, 4 November 2010

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I would have run to him…I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thing, - walked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said,

‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871

Today’s Agenda

• Why ORCID is Relevant

• Who is ORCID

• Development Progress

• How to Engage with ORCID

• Questions and Discussion

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Many identifiers, fulfill unique roles

SS# 1234567890

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jwilson@ mycompany.com

John Richard Wilson

What’s the problem ORCID will address?John Richard WilsonWilson, John Richard

John R. WilsonWilson, John R.

Wilson, J.R.J.R. WilsonJohn WilsonWilson, John

J. WilsonWilson, J.

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What’s the problem?

• Estimated 7 million researchers

• Estimated 6.5 million graduate students

• Times 10 (or more)…yikes!

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What’s the problem?

Virtually all countries have their unique “common name” problems

Johannson

Rodriguez

Müller7

What’s the problem?

Li (Lee), Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Zhu,

Ma, Hu, Guo, Ln, He, Gao, Liang, Zheng, Luo, Song, Xie, Tang, Han,

Cao, Xu, Deng, Xiao

Scale =1:33 million

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What’s the problem?王伟王薇王维王蔚 Wei Wang汪卫汪玮汪威汪巍

Doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.230001

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What’s the problem?王伟王薇王维王蔚 Wei Wang汪卫汪玮汪威汪巍

Doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.230001

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What will ORCID facilitate?

Given a name, tell me…• What works someone has contributed

• The nature of those works

• Who is affiliated with this person and what are their relationships?

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Who will benefit from ORCID?

ResearchersLibrariansInstitutions

Funding agenciesSocieties

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How will Librarians benefit from ORCID?

• Creating profiles and communities

• Reporting on the impact of research

• Refining collection development

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Use cases for ORCID

1)To harvest biographical data and bring it into the university’s HR system• Draw upon educational degrees, awards,

honors, speaking engagements …• Build profiles efficiently and accurately

(reduce input errors or omissions)• Monitor the impact of faculty/researchers and

analyze cross-institution collaboration

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Use cases for ORCID1)Harvest…2)Auto-populate repositories

• Provide a public face for the institution• Highlight scholarly, social, and economic

impact - valuable resources• Support the institution’s mission

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Use cases for ORCID1)Harvest …2)Auto-populate …3)Credential temporary access to university

resources for visitors who are collaborating with others from the university community

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Use cases for ORCID1)Harvest …2)Auto-populate …3)Credential …4)Complement the data compiled and metrics

reported on their community

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Use cases for ORCID1)Harvest …2)Auto-populate …3)Credential …4)Complement …5)Conduct bibliometric research

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Use cases for ORCID1)Harvest …2)Auto-populate …3)Credential …4)Complement …5)Conduct …6)Refine collection development using better

informed view into literature most relevant to your scholarly community.

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Today’s Agenda

• Why ORCID is Relevant

• Who is ORCID

• Development Progress

• How to Engage with ORCID

• Questions and Discussion

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144 Participant Organizations

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Participant Organization Types

Organization Type Number

Academic 47

Assoc/Society 15

Corporate 19

Government 11

Non-profit 17

Other 7

Publisher 28

Total 144

Academic29%

Assoc/Society13%

Corporate14%Government

9%

Non-profit10%

Other5%

Publisher20%

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Geographic Location of ParticipantsAUSTRALIA 6

AUSTRIA 1

BELGIUM 1

BRAZIL 1

CANADA 2

CHINA 2

COLOMBIA 1

EGYPT 1

FRANCE 1

GERMANY 8

GREECE 1

INDIA 3

ISRAEL 1

ITALY 3

JAPAN 3

NETHERLANDS 1

SERBIA 1

SINGAPORE 1

SOUTH KOREA 1

SPAIN 2

SWEDEN 1

SWITZERLAND 1

TURKEY 1

UK 30

USA 70

Grand Total 144

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ORCID’s MissionORCID, Inc. is a non-profit organization that aims tosolve the author/contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

These identifiers and the relationships among them can be linked to the researcher’s output to enhance the scientific discovery process and to improve the efficiency of research funding and collaboration within the research community. 24

Board of DirectorsLiz Allen, Wellcome TrustAmy Brand, Harvard UniversityCraig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Martin Fenner, Hannover Medical SchoolThomas Hickey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.David Kochalko, Thomson ReutersSalvatore Mele, CERN — European Organization for Nuclear ResearchEd Pentz, Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing GroupBernard Rous, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.Chris Shillum, ElsevierMacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LibrariesHideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics (NII) (Japan)Simeon Warner, Cornell University Library

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Today’s Agenda

• Why ORCID is Relevant

• Who is ORCID

• Development Progress

• How to Engage with ORCID

• Questions and Discussion

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Timeline (August 2010)

Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Q2-4

Alpha Prototyping

Profile Exchange Research & Development

ORCID Members Demonstration and

Alpha Testing

Organization Creation

Build Sandbox

Beta Development

Public Beta

Rollout

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Development Approach• To create an ORCID Alpha Prototype and clarify desired features within the

community around the following areas:• Federated workflow• Federated data privacy• Services design and protocols• Data schema designs• GUI design• Individual / Batch profile matching

• To establish workstreams and collaborative relationships across a multitude of competing and cooperating organizations, including: • Individual curated biographic profile exchange• Alogrithmically curated biographic profile matching• Bibiliographic profile access• Identification, provenance, and federation• Privacy• Organizational legal issues

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Alpha Use Cases

An author can either create a new ORCID ID or import profile information from an existing profile system (e.g., Scholar Universe, Researcher ID, Scopus, REPEC). Once an author has an ORCID ID they can export this profile information from ORCID to relevant stakeholder systems.

Stakeholders are researchers (who can use ORCIDs to more efficiently and accurately record and present their research-related profiles), institutions (where ORCIDs might be used in researcher evaluation), publishers (where ORCIDs are input into manuscript tracking systems), and funding agencies (where ORCIDs might be used for evaluation or tracking of research).

Privacy and access rights as well as funding issues are being tackled. Some information will be optional and researchers will have control over their private data in the registry.

ORCID may be linked to other registries, such as the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) a draft international standard for tracking creators, actors, artists and performers.

Alpha Features• Easy registration process: Researchers fill out a registration form or have it

pre-populated with data from an ORCID partner system (e.g. Scopus, RePec, AuthorClaim).

• User-controlled privacy settings: The researcher controls how much/little information about him/herself that they want to make publically available.

• Local-language support: The database supports UTF-8 character-set. Searching by unicode characters is also supported.

• Search: The system supports search of public profiles by first/last name; institution; keyword; ORCID number. In addition, the system allows for browsing by keyword and supports auto-suggest for keyword and institution.

• Publication claiming: Researchers can perform a doi search against CrossRef to add publications to their profile. A link to view the publication at the publisher’s site is also captured.

• Integration with ORCID partner systems: Services include the ability for partners to search ORCID, upload and download profile and publication information.

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Alpha Features

ORCID has extended a clone of the Researcher ID system developed by Thomson Reuters

• Joint affiliation sub organization

• Joint affiliation start date

• Joint affiliation role• Past affiliation

information (name, city, country, start date, end date, role)

• Personalization settings

• Opt in/out

• Description• User defined URLs• Privacy settings• Institution name• Sub organization• Sub organization Address• Sub organization role• Joint affiliation name

• ORCID Number• Name (first, last,

middle)• Other names• Email address• Persistent URL• Role• Subjects• Keywords

Inside the Alpha

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Search ORCID

Register

Simple Registration

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Import and connectexisting profile

Import Profile

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Basic Profile

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Claim Publications

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Claim Publications

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CrossRef API Connection

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Search ORCID

Search Name

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Ratner Search

Search ORCID

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Search Name

Search Keyword

Search ORCID

DOIkeyword

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Talking to ORCID Alpha API

Connect to Manuscript

Tracking Systems

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Results from ORCID Alpha

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ORCID captured

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Batch Upload and Download Services

Institution/Organization Researcher

Management SystemsServices integration with

ORCID System

Batch upload to ORCID System from

Institution/Organization

Emails to Researchers to verify ORCID ID claims

and IDs added to ORCID

Batch download of enriched profiles and

ORCID IDs by Institution/Organization

ORCID profiles available on ORCID website

• Universities and Organizations can upload batches of profiles to facilitate generation of ORCID IDs

• In Alpha, individual researchers must respond to system generated emails to claim their IDs and make their profiles live

• Solution is web services based and depends on development of an administrative interface or integration with external administrative system

• Provenance of uploaded data stored in database

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ORCID

F67572010

Profile Exchange R&DPossible Matching Algorithms• VIAF matching technology from OCLC• Author Resolver from ProQuest• Matching capability from OKKAM

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Open Questions

User Submitted Profiles

Society Submitted

Profiles

Publisher Submitted Profiles

Publication and Other Metadata

• For any individual’s profile / data

• What data is available for matching?

• What data may individual claim?

• What data is available for flagging provenance

• Where is any data that is claimed stored (ie. ORCID repository, linked)?

• What can an individual choose to display on their public ORCID profile?

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Classifications of Data

Default Displayed

ControlledDisplay/Hide

Default Hidden

ResearcherRequired to

Register

Default Displayed

ControlledDisplay/Hide

Default Hidden

3rd PartyLoads Data

What is the overlap between user uploaded and 3rd party uploaded data ?

How best to detect and avoid collisions?

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Today’s Agenda

• Why ORCID is Relevant

• Who is ORCID

• Development Progress

• How to Engage with ORCID

• Questions and Discussion

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Tracking ORCID• Visit our website www.orcid.org

• Find ORCID in Social Media– Twitter @orcid_org– Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ORCID-Initiative/124343140932918

– ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/group/ORCID/

– Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ORCID and http://www.slideshare.net/tag/orcid

– FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/orcid

• Attend a Participant Meeting– 18 November, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. GMT, London, U.K. 49

Express your interest at www.orcid.org

Acknowledgements

Geoff Bilder, CrossRefAmy Brand, Harvard University

Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing GroupMacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries

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Want to Learn More, Get Involved?

Contact: Dave Kochalko

d.kochalko@orcid.org

david.kochalko@thomsonreuters.com

760.438.5526, x304

Register at www.orcid.org52