- Tuesday 17 February 2026
- 10:30 - 11:45 EST
Better Together: How Diverse Researcher Identifier Systems Can Work Together to Meet Community-Specific Needs while Achieving the Goal of Universal Interoperability
Session Description
Laurel CD
Since its launch in 2012, ORCID has grown to be the de facto identifier for researchers, with over 10 million active users across all disciplines and in every country around the world. It has been widely integrated into most of the highly-used systems for researchers. However, ORCID is far from being the only research identifier, nor is it intended to be – many national, disciplinary, and proprietary researcher identifiers are well established and widely used. They play a vital role in their respective communities, meeting specific needs – cultural, technical, legal, and more – that can’t be accommodated by ORCID alone. The speakers on this panel will build on a recent white paper on this topic, It’s 'ORCID and…,' not 'ORCID or…,' to discuss how and why integrations between ORCID and other types of researcher identifiers benefit everyone. They will also consider the barriers to ORCID adoption and implementation in communities where other identifiers are widely used, and approaches to reducing or eliminating those barriers. The audience will then be invited to share their thoughts on how the information community can better communicate the value of ORCID in combination with other identifiers to all stakeholders.
