Work undertaken as part of the MBIE-led ORCID Working Group confirmed the view that New Zealand's research organisations exist in a wide range of sizes and ability to access IT support. As a consequence, the ability of organisations to respond to the ORCID Joint Statement of Principle that New Zealand adopt ORCID as the national researcher identifier also varied widely. In recognition that assisting all Consortia-eligible organisations to productively engage with ORCID would lead to national benefits, the Ministry provided support for the development of the New Zealand ORCID Hub. As designed, the core function of the Hub is to provide all New Zealand ORCID Consortium members with the ability to make authoritative assertions of their relationship with researchers on the researcher's ORCID record, irrespective of their size or technical resource.
Throughout 2017 to the end of 2019, this project was actively developed by a team at the University of Auckland under contract to the Royal Society of New Zealand.
As the phenomena of small research organisations is not limited to New Zealand, it is a principle of the Hub's development that it be architected for use by the global ORCID community. To support this design principle, development was being pursued in as transparent a nature as possible, with the Hub itself being developed under the permissive MIT License.
The core development team at the University of Auckland consisted of: jeff kennedy, Enterprise Architecture Manager; Radomirs Cirskis, ORCID Project Architect; and Roshan Pawar, ORCID Developer.
The Hub currently operates in two major modes: self-managed simple assertions (available to users coming from Tuakiri-member (i.e., Federated IdP) organisations); and file upload by organisation admins, resulting in email invitations for researchers with non-Tuakiri member organisations and/or for batch operations of rich ORCID assertions for all members.
The Hub has been awarded the following Collect and Connect badges recognising it follows ORCID's recommendations for integrating with ORCID in these stages:
Consortium members who use the NZ ORCID Hub and who provide adequate communications to their users about what ORCID is, why its use is being encouraged within the organisation and how it is being used in the organisation’s internal systems are also eligible for these four badges.
For more information on the Hub's background and links to resources please visit the Hub page of the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s website.
Royal Society of New Zealand Phone: +64 (04) 472 7421 PO Box 598, Wellington 6140 New Zealand Email: orcid@royalsociety.org.nz