HESA Student Record 2014/15 - ORCID identifier
HESA Student Record 2014/15Fields required from institutions in EnglandORCID identifier | return to field list |
Type | field |
Short name | ORCID |
Description |
This field records the ORCID identifier of a student. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All students (optional). |
Notes |
The ORCID identifier is a unique identifier for researchers that is compatible with the ISO Standard (ISO 27729). ORCID IDs are applied for by the individual and randomly assigned by the ORCID Registry, and will be expressed as a URI. It has two purposes: a) It aims to track the career progression of a research student and follow their pathway into employment within the Higher Education sector. b) It allows student or staff to attach their unique identity to their research; and is a way of connecting researchers to their research and its outputs. This enables accurate attribution of research and its products. It is the responsibility of the individual to provide their ORCID identifier to the provider in order for it to be returned and their progress tracked. HESA does not require the whole of the URI to be returned, just the 16 identification digits returned as four block of four numbers, separated by hyphens. An ORCID identifier would have the following structure: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-3472 This would be returned to HESA as: 0000-0002-3843-3472 Providers are encouraged to return the ORCID identifier for students on research programmes. More details on the ORCID identifier are available on the ORCID website. |
Quality rules |
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Reason required |
To allow career tracking for research students as they enter academic employment. |
Part of | |
Field length | 19 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: ORCID
Data type: ORCIDType |
Owner | ORCID, Inc. |
Version | 1.1 |
Date modified | 2015-02-26 |
Change management notes | Data type amended to permit the final character in an ORCID to be an X, as per the standard for this identifier. |
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