From the May 2014 ORCID Outreach Meeting, https://orcid.org/content/orcid-outreach-meeting-and-codefest-may-2014 ORCID at professional associations For scholarly societies, ORCID can help tie together siloed internal systems, including manuscript submission, membership management, author and reviewer databases, and conferences, improving an organizations ability to serve its members. This session will offer a discussion of integration points, policy issues, data flow between systems, researcher participation, discovered opportunities, and demonstrations by societies and vendors. Moderator: Bernard Rous, Director of Publications, Association for Computing Machinery Presenters: Scott Moore, Director of Technology Services, Society for Neuroscience Reynold Guida, Director, Product Management, IEEE Gordon MacPherson, Director of Conference Quality, IEEE Mary Warner, Assistant Director, Publications, American Geophysical Union

1. Society for Neuroscience ORCiD
Integration
May 21 – 22, 2014

2. • Brief History of SfN
– World’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to
furthering the understanding of the brain and nervous
system
– Founded in 1969, SfN has over 40,000 members in 90
different countries
– 130 different chapters worldwide
– Annual Meeting: 30,000 attendees and roughly 16,000
abstracts
– Journal: Journal of Neuroscience and eNeuro
Background

3. Background (Continued)

4. Background (Continued)
• Personify implementation
– First started Personify implementation in 2008; launched
new system in 2009
– Currently running Personify 7.5.1
– Utilize eBusiness, Personify SSO, basic modules
– Abstracts and Meeting Registration handled outside
Personify
– In-house development staff working directly with
Personify API (VisualBasic.NET & C#.NET)
• Growth of SfN and the field create new challenges

5. Current Challenges
• The movement of researchers between institutions
– Email addresses
– Credentials
– Demographics
• Duplicate records in Personify
• Misplacement of SfN member IDs

6. Project Goals
• Accurately distinguish themselves and their activities from other
researchers, minimizing misidentification
• Centrally maintain their research activities with SfN and ORCID,
two organizations positioned to reach across disciplines and
national boundaries (approximately 38% of SfN’s members reside
outside of the U.S.)
• Benefit from efficiencies where common information is not re-
entered across systems
• Improve data integrity in Personify

7. Integration Plan
• Integration Point 1: Account Registration
– Site visitor wishes to create an account with SfN to purchase a
product, sign up for alerts, etc
• Integration Point 2: New Member and Returning Member
Workflows
– An individual seeks to join or re-join SfN
• Integration Point 3: My Profile/My SfN
– An Individual logs into the My SfN section to leverage personalized
content

8. Integration Point 1: Account Registration

9. Integration Point 2: New Member and
Returning Member

10. Integration Point 3: My Profile/My SfN

11. Project Status
• Remaining work
– One more cycle of development, testing and bug fixes
– Begin communications
– Develop and implement evaluation plan
• Projected launch date in August 2014

12. Future Plans – Abstracts and Meeting Registration
• After an evaluation period, SfN will look into the possibility
of integrating ORCiD identifiers into:
– Abstract submission (16,000 abstracts in volume)
– Annual meeting registration (roughly 30,000 attendees)

13. Questions?