ORCID has announced the official launch of the Irish Consortium at the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL). The new consortium will be led by Dr Catherine Ferris, IReL Open Scholarship Officer, who will manage community and technical support for consortium members.
ORCID consortia foster communities of practice that apply ORCID open identifier services and resources in regional and national contexts, using global implementation standards. The Irish Consortium is part of a coordinated approach to the adoption and integration of ORCID in Ireland, directed by the Higher Education Authority. Its establishment was directly informed by research carried out by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) Infrastructure Working Group.
In accordance with the NORF principles for adoption and use of ORCID and related persistent identifier infrastructure in Ireland, the Irish ORCID Consortium recognises that: the use of unique and persistent identifiers for entities (researchers, organisations, grants, activities, and outputs) in the research ecosystem is essential for the development of an internationally competitive research infrastructure for Ireland; the adoption of unique identifiers for researcher identification supports interoperability between multiple systems and institutions; and ORCID improves the visibility of researchers by uniquely distinguishing them from similarly named researchers and by merging information from individual researchers who have used name variants over the course of their careers.
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