ORCID Organization Update
Participants Meeting18 May 2011
Howard RatnerChairman, ORCID, Inc.
CTO, Executive VPNature Publishing Group
Key Constituents
Researcher Joins faculty Joins student body
Applies for grant
Submits Manuscript
Helps track output offaculty and students
Helps perform researchassessment of grantees
Streamline data inputCreates author links- to publications- to collaborators- to other forms of communication
Why?
220 Participants
Newest Participants (Jan-May 2011)
Timeline 2010Feb 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 2011-12 (draft)Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012
Profile Exchange Research & Development
Start Registering ORCIDs
Build Phase 1
Start Collecting FeesSponsorship
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 ResearchSimeon Warner, Cornell University LibraryEd Pentz, CrossRef/Publishers International Linking Association, Inc.*Chris Shillum, ElsevierMartin Fenner, Hannover Medical SchoolMacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LibrariesHideaki 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.*
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Working Group ChairsBusiness 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
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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