Privacy and individual control are founding principles of ORCID, and remain a point of focus with both ORCID Members and researchers alike. We continually work to improve the clarity, completeness, and robustness of our privacy policy. As the ORCID Registry grows (not only the number of actual records, but the volume of integrations and assertions […]
ORCID at Scale: Improving our own Infrastructure
Are you interested in learning about how we host the ORCID Registry and APIs? Would like to know how we deal with high availability, scalability, and recovery in the event of a disaster? If so, then this post is for you! We handle eight million page views each month on the ORCID Registry, but the […]
Keeping ORCID Trusted and Trustworthy: Updates to our Privacy Policy
Privacy is a fundamental concern for ORCID. One of the bedrock principles that guide our operations is that “Researchers will control the defined privacy settings of their own ORCID record data” — they decide what information they share, and who they share it with. We are committed to this principle even though the information in ORCID […]