BRIF workshop Toulouse 2012 ORCID intro and status update

ORCiDs for researchers - now coming to a website near you

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Gudmundur A. Thorisson <[email protected]>University of Leicester / University of Iceland / ORCID EU

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BRIF workshop, Toulouse Oct 22 2012

Overview

‣ Introduction to ORCID, an organization and a community

‣ ORCID has launched a live service - what happens now?

‣ Relevance to BRIF mission



The problem with names

Are these authors all the same person?G. Thorisson, University of LeicesterG. A. Thorisson, University of LeicesterG. A. Thorisson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

How about these?

Or these?

J. SmithJ. SmithJ. SmithJ. SmithJ. Smith [...]

[..] ∼2/3 of the ∼6 million authors in MEDLINE share a last name and first initial with at least one other author, and an ambiguous name refers to ∼8 persons on average.

Torvik and Smalheiser. Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (2009) vol. 3 (3)



The problem with names (cont)

• Number of authors and other scholarly contributors is increasing

• Number & kinds of “works” they contribute to is increasing



The problem with names (cont)

• Number of authors and other scholarly contributors is increasing

• Number & kinds of “works” they contribute to is increasing

‣ The scholarly record is broken

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



Use cases for contributor IDs

• Why? – Attribution - link content creators with their works and attribute credit

appropriately – Discovery - who contributed to publication X?

which publications has person/organization Y contributed to?

• What kind of contributions?– Characterizing ‘contributorship‘:

role: author, creator, analyst, reviewer contribution: ‘conceived of study & designed experiment’, ‘wrote paper’, ‘performed experiments’

• LHC example: ~2000 ‘authors’ and ~170 institutions



WHO CARES? Lots of people!

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

journals



The Open Researcher & Contributor ID initiative

‣ ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary organization involving multiple stakeholders:

- Research institutions, libraries, funding organizations, publishers, intermediares and individual researchers

‣ 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.



ORCID Principles1. ORCID will work to support the crea7on of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly

communica7on by enabling reliable a@ribu7on of authors and contributors.

2. ORCID will transcend discipline, geographic, na7onal and ins7tu7onal, boundaries.

3. Par7cipa7on in ORCID is open to any organiza7on that has an interest in scholarly communica7ons.

4. Access to ORCID services will be based on transparent and non-‐discriminatory terms posted on the ORCID website.

5. Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID ID and profile free of charge.

6. Researchers will control the defined privacy seLngs of their own ORCID profile data.

7. 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 seLngs) that is updated once a year and released under the CC0 waiver.

8. All soTware developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source SoTware license approved by the Open Source Ini7a7ve. For the soTware it adopts, ORCID will prefer Open Source.

9. ORCID iden7fiers and profile data (subject to privacy seLngs) will be made available via a combina7on 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 organiza7on focused on the long-‐term persistence of the ORCID system.

10.ORCID will be governed by representa7ves from a broad cross-‐sec7on of stakeholders, the majority of whom are not-‐for-‐profit, and will strive for maximal transparency by publicly pos7ng summaries of all board mee7ngs and annual financial reports.



ORCID Participants

ORCID has 328 participant organizations from across the world, 50 of which have provided sponsorship funding.



What makes ORCID different?

• Some key facts:• 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 >300 participants

• 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



The ORCID service is now live!

‣ Get a persistent identifier

‣ Start managing their profile

- search&add publications

- [more features coming soon]

Individuals can registerat no charge

https://orcid.org/register





The ORCID service is now live!

‣ Get a persistent identifier

‣ Start managing their profile

- search&add publications

- [more features coming soon]

‣ Public API‣ free to use, no registration needed

‣ look up & search public profile data

‣ Members API‣ ORCID membership required, annual fee

‣ 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 system searches for possible matching profiles

ORCID RESEARCHORGANIZATIONWORKFLOW• Create trans-‐organizaGon record for all scholars and researchers (students)

• Auto-‐updates for researcher publicaGons, patents, grants, etc.

• Management of InsGtuGonal Repository

• Reduced document management workload for researchers

Organiza7on creates ORCID field in their HR system

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

HR profile updated

ORCID::HR profile pairing noGce sent to

researcher

OrganizaGon prompted to resolve duplicates

OrganizaGon uses Tier 2 API to upload basic informaGon for staff

member to ORCID



ORCID Tier 2 API passes ID (and author informaGon) to submission system

ORCID PUBLISHERWORKFLOW• Streamline data input

• Create author links

Researcher starts manuscript submission

Manuscript processed and content published

Metadata and ORCIDdeposited to CrossRef

ORCID::DOI pairings submiXed to ORCID

ORCID profileupdated

Manuscript submission system asks researcher to supply and validate ORCID idenGfier



Several launch partners already have integration

• American Physical Society• Aries Systems• AVEDAS• Boston University• California Institute of Technology• CrossRef• Elsevier (Scopus)• Faculty of 1000• figshare

• Hindawi Publishing Corporation• KNODE, Inc.• Nature Publishing Group• SafetyLit• Symplectic• Thomson Reuters• ImpactStory• Wellcome Trust



Relevance to BRIF

• What can biobanks, databases and data repositories do?

– NOW - obtain ORCiD’s for contributors, data creators, curators and start associating them with resources

– LATER - update ORCID system with information on contributions


Acknowledgements GEN2PHEN Consortium

http://www.gen2phen.org/about-gen2phen/partners

Prof Anthony J. Brookes Bioinformatics Group, Leicester

This work has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)under grant agreement number 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.

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