Mejias "Making it work globally"
- 1. Making it work globally
NISO Open Research
17 November 2021
Gabriela Mejias
Engagement Manager, Global Consortia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-7181
@gabioshka
@ORCID_Org
- 2. ORCID’s Mission
ORCID’s mission is to enable transparent and
trustworthy connections between researchers, their
contributions, and their affiliations by providing a
unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as
they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation
activities.
- 3. What is ORCID?
Open: we provide open (non
proprietary) tools and support open
(transparent) research
Researcher: across disciplines,
organizations, career stages, countries
Contributor: all those who participate
in research scholarship and innovation
IDentifier: a unique 16 digit identifier
human and machine readable
- 5. What does ORCID provide?
● Persistent identifiers (PIDs) for researchers
connected to a record of (affiliations, works,
funding, and more) metadata
● A Registry /Hub of these (and other!) iDs
● APIs (member and non member) to allow
exchange of information between systems
● A global community effort to build/share
connections and tools
- 8. The O in ORCID
● Community-driven, governed and sustained
● Participation open to all
● Open APIs (members and non members)
● Open metadata
● ORCID Public Data file - released annually under a CC0
waiver
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https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006897394-How-do-I-get-the-public-data-file-
- 11. Connections in the ORCID Registry
● 82,452,459 works
● 13,544,504 affiliations
● 5,332,547 peer Review
● 1,140,662 funding
● 2,512 research resources
● 2,204,905 person identifiers
● 3,257,177 keywords
Crossref has pushed nearly 8M works
to ORCID records
- 13. Indigenous Knowledge
Source: Informed by British Columbia First Nations’ Data Governance Initiative (2018) http://www.bcfndgi.com/
https://usindigenousdata.org/ @USISDN
Data, information and knowledge, in any format, that impacts Indigenous Peoples,
nations, and communities at the collective and individual level
- 14. Current challenges around Indigenous Knowledge
Source: https://doi.org/10.23640/07243.12456305.v1
● Indigenous collections and data can be hard
to find
● Can be buried in a larger collection, datasets,
or repositories
● Can be mislabeled, not properly attributed,
not searchable
● Indigenous collections are not FAIR
(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,
Reusable)
- 15. Indigenous Knowledge and PIDs
ORCID work types https://info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-and-api-faq/#easy-faq-2682
DataCite resource types https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/include/datacite-resourceType-v4.1.xsd
● PIDs can help enable
recognition for “non
traditional” outputs
● Metadata can be part of the
solution
● Community governed
standards are needed for wide
implementation and adoption
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5558-1485
- 16. Collaboration across countries
● ORCID can help track collaborations
beyond organizations and countries
● ORCID can be used to identify potential
collaborators
● Organization identifiers are key
● ROR offers open tools and is a
community driven initiative
● More recognition, more collaboration
- 17. The Worldwide Map of Research
Source: https://rodighiero.github.io/WMoR/ @dariorodighiero
- 19. Final thoughts
● The road to open is never complete and PIDs can help
● Open metadata matters
● It takes a village!