Persistent unique identifiers have been a mainstay in scholarly communication for many years. It would be difficult to think of precisely describing a book without its ISBN or an article without its DOI. Until recently, identifiers most commonly referred to the activities or outcomes of research, rather than the people contributing to this work. The ORCID Registry was established in late 2012 to provide persistent, unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. These ORCID identifiers are included in publications, grants, research outcomes and academic service to uniquely connect a person to their work. The registry also provides a person-centric point of view, that complements the many activity-centric point of views provided by existing registries and databases. This session will explain the role of ORCID person identifiers in scholarly communications, and impact that they have in understanding contribution. The session will also describe how ORCID iDs have recently been integrated into the HubZero platform, and how they can be used in your own sites.

Laura Paglione has served as Technical Director of ORCID since June 2012, and led the ORCID Registry public launch in October of the same year. Her responsibilities include technical direction of new features and improvements to the Registry and its API, ORCID’s open source code and community, technical infrastructure, and member and end-user support. She engages with the ORCID community through a Technical Steering Group, and several technical working groups that provide recommendations on strategic and tactical plans. She also leads several webinars each year on topics such as use of the ORCID API, ORCID iDs in the publishing workflow, and the common integrations for ORCID iDs. Laura is a frequent speaker about ORCID, unique identifiers, and innovation.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Laura Paglione (2014), "Who are we talking about? The Role of Person Identifiers in Scholarly Communications," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/1249.

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