Cornell University received an ORCID Adoption and Integration grant in October, 2013 for integration of ORCID iD creation and confirmatoin confirmation into the VIVO open source researcher profiling system, first at Cornell and then in VIVO source code available to other VIVO users. The ORCID iD has been included as an identifier in the VIVO ontology since VIVO 1.0, and version 1.7 of VIVO will support creation and confirmation of ORCID iDs within the VIVO application itself.
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Documentation on integrating ORCID functionality into VIVO is included in the VIVO 1.7 Installation Instructions and the supplemental page on Activating the ORCID integration.
Note also that Cornell has implemented an alternative (simple) platform for creation of ORCID iDs for researchers who do not hold university titles that trigger the creation of VIVO profiles from human resources data feeds, including graduate students and postdoctoral associates. The workflow is much the same as above:
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