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Knowledge Discovery Problem

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Given a work, tell me who is responsible for it and describe the nature of that responsibility.

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Given a name, tell be what works they have contributed to and describe the nature of the contributions.

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Given a name, tell me what other names are “related” to the first name and tell me the nature of that relationship.

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What is the problem?

The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional activities.

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• Discoverability within and across databases• Author, grantee, and faculty record management• Member and meeting management• Reviewer selection• Interoperability between research info systems

Keys to success w/researchers

• Make things easy for researchers – save them time!

• Systems need to integrate with ORCID to exchange metadata so researchers don’t have to type in information on different systems

• Example: sign into manuscript submission systems with ORCID – grant application systems need to do the same

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5993-8592

ORCID & CrossRef

Live ORCID iDs - 964,638

Works with unique DOIs - 2,222,880

ORCID iDs in CrossRef – 135,473

Exciting next step….

• Publishers collect ORCID iDs on manuscript submission

• Publishers deposit ORCID iDs with CrossRef metadata on publication

• CrossRef will automatically update the researcher’s profile (with their permission) with the new publication.

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