Neil Jefferies is Head of Innovation for the Open Scholarship Support team at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University. Starting back in May 2014, he project-managed Oxford’s participation (along with seven other institutions) in the Jisc-ARMA ORCID Pilot that was a precursor to the establishment of the UK ORCID Consortium in August 2015. In June 2016, … Continue reading “Let’s meet………..Neil Jefferies”
Alas we cannot give you the answer to the million-dollar question “What can we expect in 2021?”, as we do not have that crystal ball, but what we can do is to provide some UK ORCID consortium updates, including some changes in staffing in the Jisc ORCID support team. Events and community Like in any other sphere of … Continue reading “What’s next for the consortium in 2021?”
This blog posts provides highlights of four webinars presented by ORCID over the last few months, honing in on the topics of most interest to our members. With many demands on your time, we help you to get to the information you need more easily. We have provided timings for sections of these webinars so … Continue reading “Highlights of ORCID webinars September to November 2020”
Every year the UK consortium plans events for institutional members. We plan these as needed depending on priorities for members at different times and specific aims the community agrees on to make progress with ORCID implementation in UK Higher Education. Hackdays and training events are two types of meeting we have used to help exchange … Continue reading “Consortium events round-up for the summer of 2020”
The Jisc UK ORCID Support Team was represented by Balviar Notay and Monica Duke at the Open Repositories 2019 conference held in Hamburg between 10th and 13th June, 2019. They presented a paper on behalf of the UK ORCID consortium giving an overview of the experience and growth of the consortium, with a focus on … Continue reading “ORCID UK consortium at Open Repositories 2019”
The UK ORCID consortium has been recognised as a community that works together for the common good. Jisc is proud to serve this community in the role of consortium lead. The award was given by ORCID officially “For excellence in investing in supporting infrastructure” aka the “Yoda” – For being the force that binds us … Continue reading “Excellent it is…….UK Consortium wins award from ORCID”
At the end of February 2019, the UK ORCID consortium looks set to reach 100 member institutions. Since the launch in 2015, our members have been involved in creating a community of ORCID implementors. As a community, we consider strategies to tackle challenges that span policy, advocacy and technical infrastructure. We work together towards solutions … Continue reading “Tools for our members – who has an ORCID ID?”
What is the ORCID Sandbox? The ORCID Sandbox is a service provided by ORCID for testing purposes; the site mimics the Production ORCID Registry in function, providing both a public and member API to the Sandbox registry, and a user interface to manage Sandbox records. The Sandbox Member API allows organizations to test Member API … Continue reading “The ORCID Sandbox”
Thank you to all who came and participated and presented at the ORCID members day. Please find all presentations at: http://bit.ly/ORCID18 In the morning there were updates from ORCID and Jisc and presentations from institutions on their ORCID implementation journey. In the afternoon there were breakout sessions on a number of topics from Collect & … Continue reading “Cultivating ORCID: Growing Together, June 2018”
This blog post is derived from notes and analysis by Owen Stephens, consultant. Thanks are due to Owen for his contributions to the hackday planning, running and reporting. The Jisc UK ORCID hackday took place in Jisc’s London offices on 24th April 2018. It was a gathering of developers and practitioners who came together to: … Continue reading “Jisc UK ORCID Hackday April 2018: summary”
