In this special guest post, Alice Meadows, NISO’s Director of Community Engagement, shares a new initiative by Jisc to explore the establishment of a UK PID consortium. The initiative is currently in its research phase. Five focus groups—one for each of the core PIDs types (for people, organizations, grants, projects, and outputs)—have been held, and a global community survey […]
ORCID: It’s All About the People
When I joined ORCID back in May 2015, I had no idea what an amazing community I was becoming a part of. Four and a half years later, as I look forward to my next adventure in the wonderful world of information infrastructure — in my new role as Director of Community Engagement for NISO, starting […]
Let’s Add Peer Review Information to ORCID Records
As part of our Peer Review Week 2019 celebrations, we are happy to share this video about why and how to add peer review to ORCID records. Learn about connecting both individual peer review activities — for a journal article or conference abstract, for example — and peer review service over time — such as […]
We’ll Be Rocking Your World Again At PIDapalooza 2020!
The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 — the open festival of persistent identifiers (PIDs) — begins here! With 162 days to go until our opening ceremony at the fabulous Belem Cultural Center in Lisbon, Portugal, your friendly neighborhood PIDapalooza Planning Committee — Helena Cousijn (DataCite), Maria Gould (CDL), Stephanie Harley (ORCID), Ginny Hendricks (Crossref), and […]
And the Lucky Winner Is…!
As part of our 2019 Year of the Researcher celebrations, we invited researchers to tell us why they would like to join us for our annual ORCID staff retreat. Out of an excellent candidate pool we are delighted to announce that Dr Andre Leon S Gradvohl (pictured), a professor at the School of Technology at the University […]