1. MEASURING SUCCESS
ORCID Outreach meeting
16 October, 2012
Laurel L. Haak, PhD
Executive Director, ORCID
l.haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org
@ORCID_Org

2. The Problem: Connecting
Research with Researchers
Without a way to uniquely identify those participating in
research across disciplines, organizations, and countries,
the research community lacks the ability to
accurately and easily identify and link researchers
and scholars with their professional activities.
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3. Broadly Speaking
Success would mean that
(1) Researchers can be uniquely identified using ORCID IDs
(2) Researchers can be reliably linked with their research
(3) Researchers and organizations are happy with the
ORCID service

4. In the short term:
v Are researchers logging on to ORCID?
v Are they able to register?
v Are institutions registering their researchers?
v Are researchers using ORCID IDs in other contexts?
v Are other organizations integrating ORCID IDs?
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5. In the medium/long term:
v Are researchers creating ORCID Records?
v Are ORCID Records getting updates via API?
v Are ORCID IDs widely used in the research
community, both by researchers and organizations?
v Is the research community able to link research with
researchers using the ORCID Registry data?
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6. What will we measure (now)?
How many people are registering? From which domains?
Countries?
How are people using the Website (Google Analysitcs—page
hits, user flows)?
How many members? How many tokens issued? From what
stakeholder groups?
How many organizations are registering their researchers?
From what countries?
How many organizations are integrating ORCID IDs? Types
of integrations? How many use cases? Code samples?

7. Your thoughts?
What would you call success?
What should we measure?
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