1. Implementing ORCID at Chalmers
Researcher identifications and ORCID –
national implementations, Helsinki
2014-09-29
Jonas Gilbert
Chalmers library
jonas.gilbert@chalmers.se
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6599-1376
2. Chalmers University of
Technology
• 10,000 students
• 2,000 researchers
• 2,500 scholarly publications
(2013)
• Chalmers Publications
Library (CPL) – repository &
publication database
• Open Access mandate
• Special focus on
bibliometrics
3. ORCID in Sweden
National study: ”Author Identifiers and Publication
Databases” (2012)
• Recommends that ORCID should be the standard used for managing
author identities in SwePub and the publication databases in Sweden
Swedish Research Council (VR)
• makes ORCID mandatory in the new PRISMA grant application portal
(Q3 2014)
SwePub, national publication database
• ORCID support for contributors in v. 2 (2014-)
SweCRIS, new national CRIS system (Q4 2014)
SWAMID, Swedish Academic Identification
• ORCID support in SAML2 SSO
5. ORCID @ CHALMERS
ORCID institutional membership (2013)
• Creator License, access to Member API
• co-ordinated by the library, university mandate
Pilot study (2013)
• batch creation of ORCIDs for one department
Create & connect service (2014-)
• developed by the library and the central IT/HR dept, with a
focus on identity infrastructure
• ORCIDs stored and managed in the central HR system (PDB)
• connected in repository & publication/metrics databases
• one-stop solution for all things concerning ORCIDs at
Chalmers
6. Background for membership
• Reason for membership?
• As participants in the project 2012, we were
following the launch and development of ORCID.
• Interest and positive response from univ & dep
management and researchers, when we presented
ORCID.
• Support for staff that wanted to create ORCID.
• Preparation to support ORCID as part of national
infrastructure.
• Support from legal office. Concerns regarding transfer
of personal data outside of EU.
7. Pilot study (2013)
• Department of Space and Geo Sciences, approx. 150
researchers
• Initiative from the library and from the head of
department
• Object of the pilot was to try out the API and workflows
and to learn about responses from the from researchers
• Batch creation of ORCIDs, using the Member API
• Mixed result, slow responses in some cases
• Conclusions
• early adoption - too early?
• creation of ORCIDs should probably be initiated by the individual
researcher in the first phase
8. ORCID Claim profile verification e-mail
Från: support@orcid.org [support@orcid.org]
Ämne: [ORCID] Claim your newly-created ORCID Account
Dear Vera Sandberg,
Chalmers University of Technology created an ORCID Account for you.
This account provides you with a unique research identifier (an ORCID iD)
that you can use in your publications and grants, and a place (an ORCID
Record) to list information about your professional research activities.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? Within the next 10 days, please review the
information that Chalmers University of Technology entered as a
courtesy on your behalf. Once you have logged in the first time, your
account will become active, and you will have complete control over the
privacy of your record and the information it contains. To review your
record, set a password and make changes, click your unique link below,
or copy and paste it into your browser:
[…]
18. Some thoughts
• ORCID is a new infrastructure and is still in
development.
• Very good support from ORCID staff during
implementation.
• ORCID model requires involvement from the
researchers. But: What’s in it for me? We still
need to show practical value for the individual
researcher.
• ORCID should be viewed as a part of an
evolving standardization and improvement for
the management of research information.
Learned basically two things: probably need to show the value more clearly (early stage, “whats in it for me(), “didn’t take notice of the claim mail”, in order to do this in a sustainable way, the creation of a new ORCID should probably be initiated by the researcher.
Lookes at the legal aspects (opt-out)
ORCID @ Chalmers-perspective, the most important actors and services from our perspective and their relations
PDB – SWAMID. Looking at including ORCID as a single sign on attribute – services that support SWAMID (funders) should be able to obtain ORCID automatically when a user signs in.
CPL – ORCID is stored in the author records
Changing, new infrastructure
VR – ORCID used both in the grant application system, Prisma, and in the project database.
SwePub – 2.0 in development, ORCID not mandatory at the moment, but supported in the new format (primary author identifier) and highly recommended. Analysis on a national level. OAI-PMH MODS. v 1 just a publication database.
Repositories – discussions with ArXiv about using ORCID for identifying Chalmers publications
Research data (data sets) missing.
