The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will join Wellcome Trust in working to embed ORCID identifiers in grant application workflows. ORCID undertakes to provide funders a means to better track research and understand the impact of funding while reducing the burden for researchers of reporting the products of their research.
The NIH is testing the efficacy of ORCID iDs in the ScienCV platform, for linking researchers, their grants, and their scientific output. The US federal government has been working to create a fed-wide profile system to streamline the grants and contract application process and reduce the data entry burden for investigators. When launched later this year, the ScienCV prototype will provide a shared, voluntary researcher profile system for individuals who receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies.
In development by the NIH, ScienCV will use current technologies to pull data from federal and non-federal sources. Pilot data sources for the ScienCV project include VIVO, PubMed, LinkedIn, and import from bibliography files.
ORCID is a non-profit community-based organisation that provides an open, international registry of unique and persistent identifiers for the research community. ORCID works with the research community to embed iDs into key workflows, such as grant applications, to support the automated linkage of research and researchers.
