The ORBIT project | ORCID

"The ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency (ORBIT) project engages funders to use persistent identifiers to automate and streamline the flow of research information between systems.

ORBIT rests on a simple idea: by pooling our know-how and influence, we can deliver a huge step forward for the transparency and reliability of research information.

ORCID iDs serve as keys that permit researchers to easily share information with research systems. For these benefits to be realized, each sector of the research community - funders, publishers, universities - needs to engage with researchers to collect ORCID iDs, store them in their systems, and actively share information with embedded identifiers....

Ultimately, ORBIT will optimize an open infrastructure that supports open research.  Project success will increase the efficiency of grant application workflows; improve the ease of program data collection; and result in more systems sharing more research information...."