Lightning Talk Session 3: Enabling FAIR Research Data and Other Outputs

The Irish ORCID Consortium

Presenter: Dr Catherine Ferris

IReL Open Scholarship Officer, Irish ORCID Consortium Lead and Project Manager for the NORF-funded National Open Access Monitor Project

Abstract

ORCID is an integral part of scholarly open infrastructure. The focus of the Irish ORCID consortium is to optimise interoperability, building integrations that enable systematic transfer of metadata on Irish research and Irish researchers between systems thereby reducing administrative burden, saving time and improving metadata quality within research workflows.

This lightning talk will provide the context, history and development of the ORCID community of practice in Ireland, including:

  • the publication in 2018 by the NORF Infrastructure Working Group of the Joint Statement of Principle concerning the adoption and use of ORCID and related persistent identifier infrastructure in Ireland;
  • the creation of a permanent post within IReL to establish and manage the Irish ORCID Consortium in 2019;
  • the launch of the Irish ORCID Consortium in March 2020; and
  • the publication of Action 4.4.1 in the National Action Plan to “Support the Irish ORCID Consortium and encourage further development and adoption of ORCID”.

Currently, the Irish ORCID Consortium comprises 20 members from across government, RPO and RFO sectors.

The lightning talk will also present the Key Performance Indicators which the Irish ORCID Consortium are working to report on, to contribute to Action 6.4.1 of the National Action Plan.