Finland’s interest in ORCID
Olli Poropudas, Counsellor of Education
Ministry of Education and Culture
Workshop on Researcher identification and ORCID
– national implementations
House of Science and Letters, 29.9.2014 Helsinki
Needs for researcher identification
– in general
• linking publications and researchers
– Ministry of Education and Culture
• information basis of science policy
– research potential of universities
– mobility of researchers
– universities, polytechnics, research institutes, university hospitals
• connecting differents roles of researchers
– Academy of Finland
– Statistics Finland
Work done
• preliminary investigation by IT Center for Science – CSC
– December 2013
– main proposition: ORCID as common system for the all research
organizations
• statement circle
– Spring 2014
– positive response
– but: a lot of open questions
• Ministry’s decision
– additional investigations
• IT Center for Science – CSC
– September 2014 - March 2015
– steering group
– workshop September 2014
Topics of the workshop
1 ORCID as an organization
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basic information
ORCID agreements
• 2 Preparing national agreement
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content of national agreement
role and duties of lead member in national agreement
role and duties of participating organizations
decision making in consortium
national fee and other costs
Topics of the workshop
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3 Judicial questions
privacy protection
delivering personla data from EU to USA
agreement with researchers
• 4 Relationship to alternative identification systems
• ISNI and other identifiers
• universities’/research organizations’ own personnel identifiers
Different points of view
• ORCID’s angle
– Laurel l. Haak, ORCID
– Josh Brown, ORCID EU
• National angle
– Verena Weigert, JISC, UK
– Mikael K. Elbaek, DTU, Denmark
• University angle
– Jonas Gilbert, Chalmers University of Technology, Swden