orcid.orgContact Info: p. +1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA
Core Principles of ORCID:
Researcher control, community governance,
openness, and persistence
Ottawa Workshop, Carleton University, 19 May 2016
Laurel L. Haak,PhD
Executive Director,ORCID
L.Haak@orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700
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ORCID provides a
persistent digital identifier
that distinguishes researchers
from each other
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ORCID is Opt-in
• ORCID is an opt-in system
• You own and control your record
• ORCID record is portable and travels with you
throughout your career
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ORCID provides plumbing for
research information, the tools to
build trust in digital information
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ORCID Principles
• Researchers will be able to create, edit, and maintain an
ORCID identifier and record free of charge.
• Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their
own ORCID record data.
• All data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by
them will be available in standard formats for free download
(subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is
updated once a year and released under a CC0 waiver.
• All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released
under an Open Source Software license approved by the
Open Source Initiative.
• https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/principles
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ORCID is a community effort
ORCID Governance
• Board is elected by membership
• Board is representative of membership (most of
whom are research institutions)
• Bylaws require Board to be majority non-profit
• ORCID is a non-profit and per US law and ORCID
bylaws cannot become a commercial enterprise
• ORCID is supported by member fees
• We are accepting nominations for Board positions:
nominations@orcid.org
• https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/governance
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ORCID Privacy
• Researchers must themselves register
• Researchers own their record
• Researchers decide what data are connected
• Researchers control who has access
• https://orcid.org/content/orcid-privacy-policy
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ORCID Privacy
• ORCID does not collect sensitive data (only
name and email address)
• Only organizations that have signed off on
Privacy Policy may write data to ORCID records,
and then only after asking permission from
researcher
• Researchers may revoke read-write permissions
at any time
• ORCID undergoes annual privacy certification
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Core Principles of ORCID: Researcher control, community governance, openness, and persistence (L. Haak)

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    orcid.orgContact Info: p.+1-301-922-9062 a. 10411 Motor City Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA Core Principles of ORCID: Researcher control, community governance, openness, and persistence Ottawa Workshop, Carleton University, 19 May 2016 Laurel L. Haak,PhD Executive Director,ORCID [email protected] http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700
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    3 ORCID provides a persistentdigital identifier that distinguishes researchers from each other
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    4 ORCID is Opt-in •ORCID is an opt-in system • You own and control your record • ORCID record is portable and travels with you throughout your career
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    ORCID provides plumbingfor research information, the tools to build trust in digital information 20 May 2016 orcid.org 6
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    ORCID Principles • Researcherswill be able to create, edit, and maintain an ORCID identifier and record free of charge. • Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID record data. • All data contributed to ORCID by researchers or claimed by them will be available in standard formats for free download (subject to the researchers' own privacy settings) that is updated once a year and released under a CC0 waiver. • All software developed by ORCID will be publicly released under an Open Source Software license approved by the Open Source Initiative. • https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/principles 20 May 2016 orcid.org 8
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    9 ORCID is acommunity effort
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    ORCID Governance • Boardis elected by membership • Board is representative of membership (most of whom are research institutions) • Bylaws require Board to be majority non-profit • ORCID is a non-profit and per US law and ORCID bylaws cannot become a commercial enterprise • ORCID is supported by member fees • We are accepting nominations for Board positions: [email protected] • https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/governance 20 May 2016 orcid.org 10
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    ORCID Privacy • Researchersmust themselves register • Researchers own their record • Researchers decide what data are connected • Researchers control who has access • https://orcid.org/content/orcid-privacy-policy 20 May 2016 orcid.org 12
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    ORCID Privacy • ORCIDdoes not collect sensitive data (only name and email address) • Only organizations that have signed off on Privacy Policy may write data to ORCID records, and then only after asking permission from researcher • Researchers may revoke read-write permissions at any time • ORCID undergoes annual privacy certification 20 May 2016 orcid.org 13
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