ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, non-profit, community-based organization with a twofold goal: to provide an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers and to work with the scholarly community to ensure that this persistent identifier is embedded in research workflows and becomes a core part of the metadata associated with research works and activities. ORCID allows researchers to link their ORCID identifier to existing fragmented person-identifiers, and to their research works and activities, and thereby connecting research and researchers and ultimately solving the name ambiguity problem in research and scholarly communications.  In concert with persistent identifiers for research works such as DOIs, ORCID makes research more discoverable, reduces time spent entering data by extending interoperability across siloed research information systems, and also supports more efficient and accurate analysis and reporting.

Since its launch in October 2012, the ORCID registry has grown steadily and organizations within the interconnected publishing, funding, and academic research communities have integrated the ORCID identifier into their workflows.  This presentation will provide an overview of ORCID, current members, and discuss opportunities for participating in the community effort.  We will provide examples of how organizations are integrating ORCID iDs into their systems, including manuscript submission or grant application systems, institutional repositories, linking ORCID identifiers to other identifier systems, and creating ORCID records on behalf of employees or affiliates.  ORCID is committed to supporting the international research community, and the presentation will conclude with information about language localization efforts, including Spanish-language resources.