Active Community Groups
Since our beginning, ORCID has interacted with our partners and engaged community in a variety of ways; whether we call it a task force, interest group, working group, steering committee or by another name.
Even before the unexpected challenges of COVID and our Executive Director transition, 2020 was deemed a year for ORCID to step back and regroup after achieving financial break-even. While ORCID has made tremendous progress on improvements to the foundational processes, systems, and services that ensure our continued success in future years, we know we’ve temporarily stepped back from the level of intensive community engagement we’ve had in the past. We are excited to re-engage in 2021, and invite you to check out our historical community groups in the meantime.
This page provides information on active groups through which our community can get involved with ORCID.
Consortia Interest Group
Consortia Interest Group
The Consortia Interest Group (CIG) is a quarterly meeting and platform to share and discuss ORCID and consortia-driven strategies, opportunities, challenges, and ideas.
Consortia Interest Group structure
The Consortia Interest Group (CIG) consists of up to 2 representatives from each of our consortia lead organizations. The group meets quarterly in two different sessions to adequate participants’ different time zones.
Aims and Focus
With the CIG, we aim to improve on the current ORCID consortium model, gather input on new initiatives and improve communication and foster the sharing of best practices across our global consortia community. The CIG will also help ORCID gather and incorporate feedback from our consortia community when developing new processes, strategies, tools, and communication materials.
In the same way we consider ORCID consortia to be “communities of practice” within their respective regions, the CIG is a larger “community of communities of practice,” providing a direct collaborative channel for participating consortium leads to share approaches, strategy, best practices, and for ORCID to discuss with leads topics such as, but not limited to:
- Value to members, lead workload, processes and responsibilities
- Product and feature suggestion and prioritization
- Consortia membership fee models
- Consortia and member maturity model
- Global equity.
Are you willing to form a consortium and would like to know more about this group? Reach out to Paloma Marín-Arraiza, ORCID Engagement Manager, Global Consortia
CIG Members
Australian Access Federation – AustraliaUniversity of Vienna – Austria
Elektron EVZ – Belgium
CAPES/Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pequisa – Brazil
Canadian Research Knowledge Network – Canada
Corporación CINCEL – Chile
Consortia – Colombia
Aalborg University Library – Denmark
CSC – IT Centre for Science – Finland
Couperin – France
Technische Informationsbibliothek – Germany
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link – Greece
Irish Research eLibrary – Ireland
The Inter-University Computation Centre – Israel
CINECA – Italy
AXIES – Japan
SURF – Netherland
Royal Society Te Aparangi – New Zealand
Sikt – Norway
TENET – South Africa
SUNET – Sweden
National Taiwan Normal University – Taiwan
State Science and Technology Library – Ukraine
Jisc – United Kingdom
Lyrasis – United States
DOE – United States
Funders Interest Group
Funders Interest Group
The Funders Interest group (FIG) is a bi-monthly meeting where key funders meet to discuss ORCID and how best to facilitate its use.
Funders Interest Group structure
Currently the Funder Interest Group (FIG) comprises 20 funder representatives from a range of funder types (e.g., small philanthropic, large national funder) and disciplinary foci (e.g., multidisciplinary, single- or sub-disciplinary focused), with a balanced geographical coverage. We are grateful to Paul Gemmill, UKRI Director for Reforming our Business and member of the ORCID Board, for agreeing to act as the inaugural chair of the FIG.
We are grateful to the FIG members listed to the right for their involvement in the inaugural year of FIG
Aims and focus
We recognize the unique challenges encountered by the funding sector. Unlike other groups, such as universities or publishers, there are fewer formal opportunities for collaborating. Funders have a complex set of stakeholder relationships and dependencies across research and policy fields. In addition, different subject disciplines, regulatory environments, geographical regions, and funder types (e.g., public or private) have resulted in a range of capabilities, workflows, and value propositions with respect to ORCID, and to persistent identifiers more generally.
While ORBIT was focused on investigations into funders’ needs and pathfinder ORCID implementations, with the FIG we hope to provide a space for formal collaboration to unfold, bringing a range of perspectives together to focus primarily on implementation: integrating ORCID into systems and processes, developing and communicating best practices, and guiding the development or adoption of policies related to ORCID and other persistent identifiers.
Are you a funder and want to get involved in this group? Reach out to Shawna Sadler, ORCID Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships
FIG Members 2022/23
African Academy of Sciences – Kenya
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s – US
AMED, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development – Japan
ANR – France
Australian Research Council – Australia
Canada Foundation for Innovation – Canada
Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Canada
CAPES – Brazil
CONCYTEC – Peru
Crossref – US
DFG – Germany
DOE – US
European Commission – Europe
FCT – Portugal
FNR – Luxembourg
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – US
Howard Hughes Medical Institute – US
INFLIBNET – India
Israel Science Foundation – Israel
JST – Japan
KISTI – S. Korea
NHMRC – Australia
NIH – US
NSF – US
NWO – Netherlands
Prociencia – Peru
Science Foundation Ireland – Ireland
Seneca Foundation Spain
SNF – Switzerland
Templeton World Charity – Bahamas
UKRI – UK
Wellcome – UK
FIG Alumni 2022
Alberta Innovates – Canada
Gates Foundation – US
Health Research BC – Canada
Product Interest Group
In September 2020, ORCID hosted our first Product Interest Group webinar, welcoming nearly 100 members and key partners from all over the world.
Twice a year, the Product Team welcome members of our community to discuss new and future functionality. The team are always open to listen to ideas and there is always space to ask questions.
Please see our events page to register for our next webinar to learn more about upcoming development and future plans.
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