Ringgold identifiers for sub-organizations

[Alexander Dutton]

Hi all,

I'm getting started with our university's integration so we can link and provision ORCIDs. I've spotted that there's now affiliation support using Ringgold.

Ringgold have identifiers for a number of our departments, and these appear in the autocompletion dropdown on the ORCID site. However, the ORCID affiliation schema (http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/151817-xml-for-affiliations) talks about "department name" as distinct from "organization", which suggests that we should always be provisioning with the Ringgold identifier for the "University of Oxford" instead of using a more precise identifier.

And if we did use departmental identifiers, should we be filling in the department name? Ringgold say they have organizational hierarchy information; would searches for "University of Oxford" return people affiliated to sub-organizations?

This all presupposes that I'm able to match Ringgold identifiers to our internal dataset of departments; their organization search (http://www.ringgold.com/identify_new/cfm/si_pd.cfm?PID=8) has booted me out for reaching the limit of allowed searches (20), and will only show me ten results at a time. It is also not showing me any of their fabled hierarchy data.

Yours,

Alex

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Alexander Dutton
Linked Open Data Architect, Office of the CIO; data.ox.ac.uk, OxPoints
IT Services, University of Oxford

[Oyler, Catalina]

Hi Alex,

We suggest you always use the top level organization when adding identifiers and include department level information in the Department field.  This helps with searching for users by affiliation and means you don't have to worry about all of your departments being included in the Ringgold data.  We're also encouraging users to select the highest level organization in our documentation for them.

Also, Ringgold only makes their hierarchy data available to their subscribers and there's a charge to add any missing sub-organizations to their data, which are couple more reasons to stick to the highest level organization when adding affiliations.

But we are working on a search for members that will find all ORCID records associated with your organization at all levels, this way records with a sub-organization listed will still be included in your search results for "University of Oxford."

Best,

-Catalina

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