Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization

Introduction: The Open Research and Contributor Identifier system (ORCID) provides services that enable research organizations to integrate ORCID identifiers (ORCID iDs) into business and information systems. Successful ORCID iD integrations involve enrolling many stakeholders and completing several technical projects. The goal of this paper is to highlight lessons learned in pursuing ORCID iD integrations within research organizations, and to demonstrate approaches to analyzing and improving staff ORCID profiles. Description: This paper discusses work to expand ORCID iD use by the staff of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and to integrate ORCID iDs more systematically into organizational business and scholarly information systems. The project included extensive outreach to staff, analysis of ORCID usage and profile contents, development of an app for minting ORCID iDs and adding UCAR as a trusted organization, and integration of metadata across ORCID profiles, publications, and data repositories. Next Steps: This project provided important insights into ORCID iD usage and adoption across UCAR. Continued ORCID iD education and outreach will focus on benefits accrued by UCAR and by researchers so far, ongoing metadata integration across UCAR repositories and ORCID profiles, and recuration of ORCID iDs and other identifiers into existing repository metadata.