As everyone is no doubt aware, the formal part of the ORCID pilot projects has now closed. The final meetings with Jisc were very productive, and it was great to meet some of the team from ORCID as well as catching up with the other pilot project teams. I was very pleased to hear that …
Category: Project Update
Jan 06
Barbara: Working as an ORCID advocate
I first heard about ORCID in the postgraduate room in the Templeman Library at the end of November 2014, when Lesley Gould informally asked the regular users of the room whether we wanted to participate in the project. I immediately liked the concept behind ORCID and the benefits of having, through an ORCID number, a …
Dec 16
George: My ORCID experience
When I first saw the ORCID advert in the Graduate School Weekly Bulletin and understood the idea behind it, I already got excited about its aims as well as the opportunity to be part of the team to advocate for it. Hence, I was even more excited when I met Kirsty on 28th October for …
Dec 01
T-minus 1 month…
And counting! The project has been going so well over the last few weeks that I have forgotten to blog! Sorry about that! The advocates total is up to seven very effective and lovely team members that are all brilliant and have hugely diverse ideas, just as I was hoping. I won’t talk too much …
Oct 30
Merchandise and advocates
I find it interesting the different ways that the advocates are taking to approach their work with their departments. I have one advocate that is primarily off-campus who is choosing to do a lot of their work by email, and approaching the departments to get information circulated, and she is getting some really good responses. …
Oct 17
ORCID Advocates
This week I held the first briefing sessions for the ORCID advocate roles that form a key part of this project. Of the ten I can potentially recruit, the first four have been briefed and have begun their outreach in their respective academic schools. I realise that four is a long way from the ten …
Oct 09
Technical update
Implementing ORCiDs in your systems does not have to be difficult. Fortunately it is a well designed system that gives you a simple URL that you can click on that takes you to the right place. We have not completed the first part of implementing ORCiDs in our systems, and here I will be covering …
Oct 03
Web presence and an unexpected challenge
It’s an interesting challenge to promote and advocate for the use of an external product without branding it and bringing it under the corporate wing, while being an internal member of staff. I have to admit, I didn’t consider the effect my being a member of staff would have on the process of promoting ORCID. …
Sep 29
Leaflets and merchandise
Although I did promise a first look for the attendees at the JISC event last week, unfortunately it wasn’t ready but now I have a suite of things that I can show you! Originally I was intending to create a hybrid message, using elements from the ORCID brand, as well as elements of Kent to …
Sep 15
Recruitment: a new challenge
Part of my role as Project Officer is to manage the employment of ten PhD students/early career researchers – 1 day a week for 6 weeks. The period of employment is over a 12 week (3 month) period and will last until the end of the project. As the positions for the students are so …
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