ORCID - ORBIT Project
Tom Demeranville

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ORCID is a hub for research
information.
We make connections using
persistent identifiers.

ORCID’s vision is a world where
all who participate in research,scholarship, and innovation are
uniquely identified
and connected to their contributions
and affiliations across time, disciplines,and borders.

What is ORCID?
• An identifier for researchers• A metadata registry and API• A set of standard procedures forconnecting researchers to their affiliations,funding and activities• A committed community• An international open research effortINTEROPERABILITYENTER ONCE
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The ORBIT Project
ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving
Transparency
ORCID and funders working together toreduce workload and improve data quality
through data re-use and automation

Funders wield the power to improve thevalue and openness of research
information.
Unique researcher identifiers have thepotential to bring efficiency andtransparency to the creation and re-use ofthat information.

Funders are hubs of activity andinformation.
Researchers, organisations, andagencies all interact with funders.

ORCIDs value to funders
Funders increasingly see an ORCID
integration as way to show that they areserious about reducing burden.
iDs are being used more and more to matchand re-use data between systems.

The ORBIT project rests on a simple
idea:
By pooling our know-how andinfluence, we can deliver a huge
step forward for the openness andreliability of research information.

ORBIT WORKING GROUPMEMBERS•Australian Research Council•CIHR (Canada)•CAPES (Brazil)•CNPq (Brazil)•CONCYTEC (Peru)• ERC•FCT (Portugal)•FWF (Austria)•HHMI (USA)•JST (Japan)•MBIE (New Zealand)•National Humanities Alliance (USA)•NRF (South Africa)•NSERC (Canada)•NIH (USA)•NIHR (UK)•STDF (Egypt)•SSHRC (Canada)•Swiss National Science Fund
•UK Research and Innovation•Wellcome Trust (UK)The groups are also supported by Altum, CASRAI, CC Technology, Crossref, CWTS, DataCite, DigitalScience, Elsevier, EuroCRIS

https://orcid.org/about/community/workinggroup/funders

What have we achieved?
Convened the Funder Working Group
Surveyed funder requirements

Researched funder data use and re-use
Guided pathfinder project implementations
Produced the funder open letter
Built consensus
Developed workflows

Demonstrated time savings

Pathfinder Integrations
The ORBIT Technical Advisory Group is a forum foroutside input and discussion around integrations.
-System Vendors (Altum, CCT)
Other vendors (Digital science, Crossref)
Funders actively integrating (ARC)
Funders making the case

Altum and CCT Technology are improving existing ORCID
integrations with FWG members and are rolling out tothe rest of their customers.

Integration example - Altum
17 funders that require ORCID, 12 that request ORCID
Seeing growth in ORCID use

Integration example - Altum
ORCID record used to pre-populate application

Integration example - Altum
Applicants then select imported works to submit

Integration example -ARC
• ARC implemented auto-population ofinformation within the grant application
form to assist researchers.
• Using an ORCID ID is one of four input
methods supported (ORCID, BibTex, DOIsand manual entry)

Integration example - ARC

Integration example - ARC• The implementation was in time to support
opening of a new funding round• The full process is not yet complete.
• Around ⅔ of outputs submitted so far
have come via the ORCID registry.

Integration example - ARC• Over 800K outputs already submitted
during this funding round… and growing.
• Outputs from all disciplines.
• 7200 STEM researchers and 3600 HASS
• Roughly equal in terms of ORCID use• Lots of this came from university
repositories with ORCID integrations
making it available and easy for
researchers to share during this process.

ARC preliminary statistics

ORCID FUNDER OPEN LETTER
An open letter from funders to indicate theirintent to integrate ORCID into their grantmanagement workflows has now been signedby 11 funding organizations.
Signatories “commit to implementing ORCID iDs inaccordance with their best practice guidelines for funders.
We encourage other funders to join us in this initiative. We
hope that our action inspires the community, including
researchers, scholars, scientists, and research institutions, aswell as other funding bodies, to join us in adopting ORCID.”
https://orcid.org/organizations/funders/openletter

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Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
National Research Foundation (S Africa)
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteWellcome Trust
Research Council of Norway
CAPES
The Royal SocietyUK Research and Innovation
Swiss National Science Foundation
GuaanaThe Dunhill Medical TrustWhat now?
We’re moving along the value chain

What now?
We’re already tackling publishing andapplications

What now?
ORBIT is exploring reporting with funders.

Funder reporting survey
The second phase of ORBIT is gathering
information about the systems, workflows,
and processes currently used in research
reporting and evaluation.
We’ve identified inefficiencies in datagathering that help us prioritize a second setof pathfinder projects to test, refine, andassess solutions.

Funder reporting survey• The primary challenge reported by funders ismatching grants to subsequent activities and outputs.
• Much of the information reported is late or of low
quality and requires time-consuming cleanup.
• 10 of 13 funders who responded either have or are in
the process of integrating ORCID in their reportingsystems.
• More than 50% of funders interact with researchers
during reporting, suggesting that interactions via
ORCID could be helpful.

ORBIT Next steps• ORCID, Funders, publishers, and DOI registries needto work together to develop, implement, and socialize
workflows that create connections between identifiers
and systems, grants and outputs at manuscript
submission.
• Funder reporting systems should allow researchers topull information from other systems, including ORCID
records, into grants reporting systems.

This project represents a real chance
to change the way research
information is shared for the better.

THANK YOU!