New Work Types are Here: Expanded ORCID Metadata Schema based on COAR

Since its founding 12 years ago, ORCID's metadata schema has been based on the CASRAI standard. CASRAI ceased operating as an organization in 2020, so In order to keep our vocabulary vibrant, ORCID will expand its work type vocabulary in 2025 along the lines of the COAR resource type list, with particular attention to non-traditional research outputs, which humanities and social science scholars have found difficult to clearly identify their outputs in ORCID. ORCID interacts with numerous systems and stakeholders in the research cycle, but repositories in particular, stand to be most transformed by this output vocabulary. As this expansion will take place in early 2025, it will be possible to glean the first impacts in the ORCID registry data and research repositories at Open Repositories 2025.