ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has announced a new project aimed at encouraging the adoption and integration of persistent researcher identifiers by research universities and scientific and social science professional associations.
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this project will provide external funding and personalised outreach and technical support to participating organisations. This programme aims to catalyze broader community adoption by standardising and streamlining the ORCID identifier integration process, collecting and documenting use cases, developing open source code samples, and providing case studies of working integrations. The programme will disseminate use cases and integrate best practices through an Outreach meeting and CodeFest, to be held in Chicago in May 2014.
Up to 10 grants of $15,000-$20,000 each are available. Proposals are due by August 31, 2013. More information on the program and the RFP are available online, at https://orcid.org/content/rfp-2013-06-orcid-id-adoption-and-integration-program.
The Association of American Universities, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives have agreed to communicate this opportunity to their member organisations.
