ORCID Records for Researchers and a Unique Identifier for NYULMC

Theodora A Bakker

NYU Langone Medical Center

The Environment

•Integrated Academic Medical Center

•Emerging consolidated governance

•Automated research lifecycle management

•Research Navigator (Click Commerce)

•Faculty Bibliography (Homegrown)

•HR/Faculty Records (PeopleSoft)

•Reporting & Analytics (EDW/Business Objects)

Stakeholders

•Faculty

•Postdocs and Students

•Research Administration

•Medical Center Administration

•Data Governance and IT

Journey to ORCID - Goals

•Need arose through author disambiguation

•Assemble stakeholders to discover goals

Journey to ORCID - Goals

•Create ORCID record for every faculty member

•Disseminate unique identifier in institutional systems

•Leverage ID for reporting & analytics

•Contribute data rich records to support the global initiative

Journey to ORCID - How

•Create records for all faculty

•Create opt-in records for postdocs and graduate students

Journey to ORCID - How

Create data-rich records

•Demographic profile

•Publications

•Grants

•Narrative

Journey to ORCID – Status

•Tool complete

Journey to ORCID – Status

•Tool complete

•Data mapping from enterprise systems

•Marketing….

Journey to ORCID – Buy In

•Leadership driven campaign = success

•Requiring a record = slower to production

•Generate need for ID outside of publications

•Competing priorities – now aligning

•Leverage new website initiative for faculty data validation participation

Journey to ORCID - Response

•Support from administration

•Support from researchers -ish•One more thing to do

Journey to ORCID – Landing in Sight

•Robust ORCID records with publication and grant information to aid disambiguation

•ORCID as unique identifier in institutional systems

Questions?

Contacts

Theodora Bakker, NYU Langone Medical Center

Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution