In addition to integrating ORCID identifiers into manuscript submission and grant application workflows, publishers and funders have been adding the identifiers into reviewer workflows. From this, a question arose as to how to acknowledge review activities in ORCID. To address this need, ORCID has asked CASRAI to facilitate a new standards project focusing on Peer Review Services Contributions. The participant-funded project is the first in a new program of International Projects being launched by CASRAI.
An international working group has been convened, with members representing associations, publishers, and funder organizations. The group is co-chaired by Rebecca Lawrence of F1000 Research and Laura Paglione of ORCID. Organisations serving on the working group are Autism Speaks, Denison University, Cambridge University Press, American Geophysical Union, Origin Editorial, University of Split, and Hypothes.is.
Key areas of discussion include assessing 'prior art', identifying and defining data elements to enable acknowledgement, identifying options for assigning a persistent document identifier to the review itself, and recommending citation structure. The working group is scheduled to submit its draft recommendations to an external review circle in June, prior to finalising their report.
CASRAI will be translating the group's recommendations into fully defined record-types, fields, and classifications to be added to the CASRAI dictionary for open use by the community. ORCID will be using the group's recommendations to develop methods for linking review activities with ORCID identifiers and for posting review metadata to the ORCID Registry.
