The Jisc UK ORCID Consortium is 5 years old this year. Each year we bring our members together in our annual event to share experiences, updates and knowledge across our community of practice. Originally, we had planned a celebration, involving a big cake (not big enough to have someone jump out of, although this was … Continue reading “#BakeItOrFakeIt Elevenses”
The first UK ORCID Regional Meeting was held at the University of Salford on the 6th of February. These meetings have been organised in response to requests from our members to hold shorter, more focussed consortium meetings for groups so that they can be easily attended. The meeting began with introductions from the attendees who … Continue reading “Report: ORCID UK Regional Meetings – NW England”
Our latest blog post is now available on our sister site. This article sets out the wider context in which the ORCID personal persistent identifier sits, it looks at some of the initiatives in which Jisc has driven the environment and policy forward, giving an overview of key engagements and identifiers. With thanks for … Continue reading “Evolving the PID landscape: The power of working together”
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”
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”
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”
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”
The Jisc team supporting ORCID adoption and the UK ORCID consortium held a successful and well attended workshop on 25th May in Birmingham. The full summary notes of the event are available here: Jisc_ORCID-May-workshop-summary as an 11 page pdf report. This includes links to the speakers’ presentations, notes from the break-out sessions, related and relevant … Continue reading “May 25th workshop – summary and further links”
At the end of May, some of the institutions in the UK that are implementing ORCID met at an event organised by Jisc for members of the Jisc ORCID consortium. Notes from the event are available online; in this blog post I have written up the notes I made at the sessions on institutional repositories … Continue reading “May 25th workshop – institutional repositories and ORCID”
