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 has 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
elationship with researchers on the researcher's ORCID record, irrespective of their size or technical
resource.
Throughout 2017 to late 2019, this project is being 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 is 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 consists of: jeff kennedy, Enterprise Architecture Manager; Radomirs Cirskis, ORCID Project Architect; and Roshan Pawar, ORCID Developer.
The Hub's operates in two modes: self-service Tuakiri-member organisation login; and file upload either via a UI or the Hub's API.
The Hub has been awarded the following Collect and Connect badges recognising it follows ORCID's recommendations for integrating with ORCID in these stages:
Any Consortium member who uses the NZ ORCID Hub qualifies for these four C&C 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.