ABES and ORCID, following on from the discussions between the two organisations in 2015, have now signed an MOU, committing themselves to further dialog on technical interoperability and cooperation on coordinating external communications.
ABES - Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur - is a French public agency and creates and manages information-based tools and services for university and research communities. Together, ABES and ORCID will coordinate efforts to adopt identifiers and standards to manage access to and reporting of research works.
The two organisations aim to improve and harmonise ABES and ORCID metadata schemas for data and researchers, to develop new interoperable APIs for our services, and to create complementary user services.
The MOU encourages the use of persistent identifiers for researchers, works, and organisations in thesis and dissertation data systems and in scholarly publications and archives; communicate the benefits of identifier systems for researchers, including building awareness and encouraging interactions between ORCID IDs and IdRef in the French research community; support non-ambiguous, machine-readable, and verifiable links between researchers, works, and organisations; explore the use of ORCID iDs in authority files, and data from authority files in ORCID accounts; and develop use cases and encourage the use of ORCID APIs in ABES systems such as theses.fr, Sudoc and IdRef, including investigating the integration of ORCID iDs to support discovery in these systems.
To achieve this program, ABES and ORCID plan to carry out an analysis of the needs and requirements of the French academic institutions and research organizations that have expressed an interest in IdRef and ORCID.
This cooperation between ABES and ORCID is an essential first step in helping the two organisations decide how to work together more closely in future. Membership of ORCID, which some organisations have asked about, is also a possibility for those who are interested in the challenge of individual identifiers in the field of research.
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