ORCID capabilities of systems
The opportunities for integrating the use of ORCIDs into your institution will, to a large extent, be determined by the capabilities of your current (and potential future) systems to use ORCIDs; also by what skills might be needed in your organisation to implement particular uses and integrations.
One way of looking at this is to look at the key things you will want to do with ORCID, then assess how a specific software package is able to fulfil those functions.
ORCID has already done the groundwork for you by defining the fundamental processes that a research organisation will want to undertake as follows:
- Collect ORCID IDs
- Display ORCID IDs on your website
- Connect ORCID records with affiliation information
- Synchronise ORCID record data with your systems
More details are provided on the ORCID for Universities and Research Institutions page on the ORCID website. The ORCID website provides more information on workflows and use cases for universities and research institutions.
The US ORCID consortium provides a trello board overview of systems connecting to the ORCID API which presents a very useful summary of features in different systems. This includes some of the common systems used in the UK as well as others.
For up to date and UK focused discussion on connecting systems, please join the Teams Community Space as we have dedicated channels and Birds of a Feather events.
Historical information – please note the below sections were originally provided but are not being updated.
Below we make our own assessment of how some commonly used institutional repository software packages fulfil the ‘Collect & Connect’ steps:
Let us know what other systems you’d like to see assessed in this way by emailing requests to [email protected].