At the June 2017 Jisc UK ORCID Support workshop a breakout session was held on: What questions can ORCID answer for my institution? Exploring the API and common queries. The session was led by Matthew Buys, ORCID and Owen Stephens, Jisc UK ORCID Support. At the end of the session Matthew invited further questions from … Continue reading “What questions can ORCID answer for my institution?”
Report on the Jisc UK ORCID Consortium Members’ Event, June 2017. This event was part of a series of members’ events organised by the Jisc support team for the UK ORCID Consortium. The aim of the event was to bring the UK ORCID community together for peer-to-peer networking and support and to help progress key … Continue reading “Cultivating ORCID: Encouraging Growth”
Nicky Ferguson writes: At our workshop event a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the Jisc UK ORCID Community Forum. This is an invited group of volunteers, representing a variety of UK institutions, backgrounds and systems software users, who since January have been keeping a keen eye on our activities and progress, giving us the … Continue reading “UK ORCID Community Forum”
Feedback from the Jisc UK ORCID Consortium Members Survey 2017 A survey was undertaken of UK ORCID Consortium member institutions from 14th March to 5th April 2017. The intention was to assess the progress of members in adopting and integrating ORCID iDs and to gain feedback on the Jisc UK ORCID consortium support service. All … Continue reading “UK ORCID Consortium members share their views”
The recent European Commission report on next generation metrics (full report only available as a pdf) recommends that the EC adopt ORCID for grant applications, management and reporting platforms. RECOMMENDATION #8 states that: “The European research system and Open Science Cloud should adopt ORCID as its preferred system of unique identifiers, and an ORCID iD … Continue reading “European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption”
From Nicky Ferguson, project manager. The first formal meeting for the UK ORCID support project happened on March 1st 2016. So I thought it would be good to make a very informal list of things we have discovered, things which seem to be important to our community and things we need to be doing from … Continue reading “Jisc UK ORCID Support – anniversary briefing”
In the latest newsletter delivered in early February, ORCID announced the upcoming release of version 2.0 of their API. The 2.0 API is now available on the production registry. ORCID will be offering webinars to help with the transition between 1.2 and 2.0. The aim is for all systems to move to using 2.0 by … Continue reading “ORCID announce 2.0 API”
Many of the UK consortium member institutions use vendor systems that are ORCID-enabled. This means that the institution simply needs to obtain institution-specific credentials from ORCID for the member API which can then be set up in the vendor system. This blog post provides a convenient walk-through of the ORCID pages and information that are … Continue reading “Members setting up vendor systems with the ORCID API”
Introduction Jisc is providing technical and community support to ORCID UK consortium members; as part of this service, Jisc is running workshops with the community to explore the requirements and opportunities for working with data accessed through the ORCID API. Overview of Workshops Use Case Development and API Workshop – 30th September 2016, Birmingham Aimed … Continue reading “Reporting on the UK ORCID API/Use Case and Hack Day Workshops”
Thank you to all those who attended the webinar on the 7th November 2016. The recording of the webinar is now available, and the slides can be downloaded from the UK ORCID support events page. In addition to the recording and the slides, we are sharing some of the questions from the sessions and the … Continue reading “Resources from webinar and follow-up”
