2024 marks the first year that FAIRsharing maintainers may receive attribution on their ORCID profiles for their efforts in keeping their standards, databases and policies up to date, and nearly 100 maintainers have taken part this year!
Back in 2021, FAIRsharing became a trusted organisation with ORCID. We used that status to enhance our login functionality to allow login through ORCID, and also to attribute our Community Champions for their professional activities within the programme.
This year marks the start of our annual attribution of FAIRsharing maintainers. When developers of a standard, database or policy claim their record, it gives them the opportunity to make changes to the record themselves, allowing them to control how their resource is displayed in FAIRsharing. Maintainers are also notified if our curation team edits the record, if users ask questions, or if the record is linked from another record, such as from a journal publisher data policy.
FAIRsharing is about making these resource discoverable to a variety of users, such as journals and publishers, researchers and service providers, research and infrastructure projects and programmes, as well as curators, librarians, funders and other policy makers and data scientists.
The FAIRsharing team feels very strongly about finding as many ways as we can to shine a light on those community members who participate in helping their resources gain visibility within the research landscape. Find out below all of the ways in which maintainers are attributed, and how our first batch of attributions to ORCID went in 2024.
How are maintainers attributed in FAIRsharing?
Maintainers are attributed with us in three different ways (please see our Attribution for you page for more details):
- On their record page: Each record you own has the name of your user account, as well as any other accounts that also maintain that record. Each time someone views that record, your ownership is prominently displayed in the General Information section at the top of the page.
- On their user profile page: Firstly, when you become a maintainer with us, the Maintained Records section of your user profile lists those records that you own. Secondly, if you are an active maintainer in any calendar year, in December we will also add an Award with this status. Each year you update your record, you will receive an additional award.
- On their ORCID profile: If you have this feature enabled, FAIRsharing will push your Maintainer Role to your ORCID profile as a Works item under the section “Annotation”. For each year that you continue as a maintainer and update your record with us, you will receive an additional work item on your ORCID profile.
ORCID attributions in 2024
This year, nearly 90 of our maintainers had their awards successfully added to their ORCID profile as shown above for Kyle. These are 90 distinct individuals who now have a concrete and visible way of showcasing their non-traditional research outputs. We are very excited about this new feature and encourage all of our maintainers to take advantage of this.
Many more of our hundreds of maintainers are eligible for this ORCID award, however their efforts could not be added this year. In order for you to be counted next year, all you need to do is follow the instructions in our Attribution for you documentation, ensuring you:
- have this feature enabled in your user profile
- log into FAIRsharing with your ORCID
- have been active in that calendar year.
That’s it! If you do those three simple things, then your efforts as a FAIRsharing maintainer will be attributed next year!