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Research Trends / Elsevier Labs Virtual Seminar - The Individual and Scholarly Networks, New York, Jan 22 2013

Identification, contribution, attributionDigital scholarship, identity on the Web and ORCID

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Gudmundur A. Thorisson <[email protected]>@gthorisson | http://gthorisson.name | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-1860

ORCID - Open Researcher & Contributor ID initiative (http://orcid.org)Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland (http://luvs.hi.is)OA Iceland - open access advocacy group (http://opinnadgangur.is)

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Outline

• A web of connections - researchers linked to their works• Broken records - the problem with person names• A community tackling the identification challenge

– Brief ORCID backgrounder and status update

• Thoughts on benefits for researchers from participating in ORCID

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Given a work, tell me who is responsible for it and describe the nature of that responsibility.

Credit: Geoff Bilder http://irisc-workshop.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/irisc2011-geoff-bilder.ppt

Identifying contributors - some use cases

Geoffrey BilderCrossRef Director of Strategic Initiatives

http://irisc-workshop.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/irisc2011-geoff-bilder.ppt


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Given a contributor, tell be what works he/she has contributed to and describe the nature of the contributions.





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Given a work, tell me who is responsible for it and describe the nature of that responsibility.





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Given a contributor, tell me which other contributors are “related” to the first one and tell me the nature of that relationship.





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Who wants to know all this?

• Publishers who publish researchers’ work– Accurate author info, dealing with coauthors, generally managing the

peer-review & publishing process

• Institutions that employ researchers– Evaluating performance of research staff, tenure decisions

• Funders who give researchers money– Which PI scientists are getting funded, who are their co-applications, track

which research outputs were produced by a given grant

• Researchers themselves!– Automated CVs, receive credit, save time when submitting manuscripts

to journals– [more stuff, see below]

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The connectivity challenge

• Number of authors and other scholarly contributors is increasing

• Number & kinds of works they contribute to is increasing

• Names are ambiguous --> author identification is problematic

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One person, multiple names:G. ThorissonG. A. ThorissonGudmundur ThorissonGudmundur A. ThorissonGuðmundur Á. Þórisson

Transliteration:

One name, multiple persons:J. Smith <-- author on total ~19K papers in PubMedY. Wang <-- author on ~4,000 papers in 2011 alone!

The problem with names

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‣ “The scholarly record is broken”

‣Reliable attribution of authors and contributors is impossible without unique person-level identifiers

A broken record

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What is ORCID?• ORCID = Open Researcher & Contributor ID initiative• International, interdisciplinary organization involving

multiple stakeholders:– Research institutions, libraries,

funding organizations, publishers, intermediares and individualresearchers

• Started in late 2009 to solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communication.

• Incorporated as a non-profit with a Board of Directors in August 2010.– http://about.orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/governance

http://about.orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/governance

http://about.orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/governance

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To support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors through unique identifiers

The ORCID mission

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So. Where. Are. We. Now?

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ORCID is LIVE! (as of Oct 15th)

• Get a persistent iD• Start managing their profile

No. registrations so far:

~50,000

Individuals can registerat no charge

https://orcid.org/register



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‣ Public API‣ free to use, no registration needed

‣ look up & search public profile data

‣ Members API‣ ORCID membership required, annual fee

‣ authentication

‣ read/write protected profile data

‣ create profiles on behalf of users

Individuals can registerat no charge

Individuals and organizations can use APIs to integrate their systems

ORCID is LIVE! (as of Oct 15th)

• Get a persistent iD• Start managing their profile

No. registrations so far:

~50,000

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So. What.Is. Happening. Now?

• Streamline data input

• Create author links

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ORCID Tier 2 API passes ID (and author informa:on) to

submission system

ORCID Publisher workflowResearcher starts manuscript

submission

Manuscript processed and content published

Metadata and ORCIDdeposited to CrossRef

ORCID::DOI pairings submiCed to ORCID

ORCID profileupdated

Manuscript submission system asks researcher to supply and validate ORCID iden:fier

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ORCID system searches for possible matching profiles

ORCID Research organization workflow

• Create trans-organization record for all scholars and researchers (students)

• Auto-updates for researcher publications, patents, grants, etc.

• Management of Institutional Repository

• Reduced document management workload for researchers

Organiza:on creates ORCID field in their HR system

Researcher logs into ORCID to approve ORCID::HR profile pairing

HR profile updated

ORCID::HR profile pairing no:ce sent to researcher

Organiza:on prompted to resolve duplicates

Organiza:on uses Tier 2 API to upload basic informa:on for staff member to ORCID

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Benefits to in-the-trenches researchers?

• ORCID by itself does not do much - the value proposition is really integration with other systems

• #1 Integrations by traditional players in research– There is buy-in from stakeholders, so ORCID will become part of workflows

– Researchers will benefit from streamlined interactions, more accurate data, less form-filling <-- save people time

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• ORCID by itself does not do much - the value proposition is really integration with other systems

• #2 Integration by new/emerging players in research– New opportunities, innovative stuff happening

– Lots of small-scale, diverse scholarly services and platforms that can benefit from integration with and build on top of ORCID as a platform - the Long Tail?

– Researchers will be able to create new connections with alternative research outputs, expand their network, show impact, get credit for other stuff besides traditional publications


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• #3 Universal springboard for less Net-savvy academics to “get connected” on the Web and become part of the network– ORCID profile <-- serve as lowest common denominator ?

– Lower barrier of entry if there is a SINGLE base service they can use which• many or most other scholars use too, and

• is supported by the organizations that matter to them in their work (publishers, funders etc.)

• why? more visible so others can more easily find them– read and build on their work and cite them– seek collaborations– career opportunities


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Facebook analogy: “ gotta be there coz everybody else is on there. Even my mother!” <-- network effect

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