THOR Bootcamp was an event celebrated in UC3M (Leganés) the lat 16th of November where people from CERN, DataCite, ORCID and UC3M explained us how important and necessary the open data is. Most researches are made using public funding through European programs like FP7 or H2020. Researches made by public funding should be accessible to everyone in order to give the opportunity to remake the experiments and check the results and it is also a way to give back the effort to the society. Open data and open science are really new concepts that they are being introduced in the companies, universities and research institutes.
The idea of ORCID is to provide a permanent and unique identifier for each researcher. The register process is open, free and independent. One you have the ORCID profile ready you can start to link your works like papers, poster, images, plots, datasets, etc. Even if they have not been published. There are different platforms where you can upload your work and link them directly to the ORCID profile (Datacite, CrossRef, Scopus, etc). Most of these platforms ask for an organization/company registration to be a member. Fortunately, there are open platforms like Zenodo and Figshare. Zenodo is a data repository for researchers and allow them to upload datasets/papers up to 50GB.
To my research, I would recommend to use Zenodo like a data repository. It is easy to use and it allows to upload different types of content formats like poster, papers, figure, plots, datasets and software. It also has a good integration with GitHub that it allows to automatize the new releases of the software creating a new DOI (Digital Object Identification) automatically. To put into practice all the concepts we saw in the event I have created a ORCID profile and I have uploaded a dataset and an image about one experiment I did almost two years ago. I have used Zenodo as a data repository to upload the parts of the experiment (dataset and image). A good point of Zenodo is that you can link contents between them. In my case, I have uploaded a dataset an also the result of process this dataset which is an image. Both contents are linked between them facilitating in this way the search of scientific data. Thanks to the integration among DataCite, Zenodo and ORCID you can see how the works that they were added in Zenodo, they are also visible in the ORCID profile automatically.
I am working in research since two year ago and I have never used these platforms. Now, I’m starting to use them and I can realize how productive they are. I do not need to spent more time at looking for the experiments that I did some years ago, because if you upload the datasets and experiments to Zenodo and they are tagged and identified it will be easier to find them in the future. But not only for the author of the experiment, the rest of the research community has a formal way to search and find research done previously. I found really interesting the concepts that I have learned in the THOR Bootcamp, and how important is to have an ORCID profile and publish every important experiment/work in the data repository in order to get a permanent DOI to track them in the future.
ORCID profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5417-6453