News: ORCID awarded grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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ORCID awarded grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support university and professional society integration of persistent identifiers
ORCID announces a new project aimed at encouraging the adoption and integration of persistent researcher identifiers by research universities and scientific and social science professional associations. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this project will provide external funding and personalized outreach and technical support to participating organizations. The goal of this program is to catalyze broader community adoption by standardizing and streamlining the ORCID identifier integration process, collecting and documenting use cases, developing open source code samples, and providing case studies of working integrations. The program will disseminate use cases and integration best practices through an Outreach meeting and CodeFest, to be held in Chicago in May 2014. Up to 10 grants of $15,000-$20,000 each are available. More information on the program and the RFP are available at https://orcid.org/content/rfp-2013-06-orcid-id-adoption-and-integration-program. Proposals are due by August 31, 2013.
See the full blog post at http://orcid.org/blog/2013/06/13/orcid-awarded-grant-alfred-p-sloan-foundation-support-university-and-professional.