We are delighted to announce that ORCID and TENET are hosting a workshop at the Birchwood Hotel & OR Tambo Conference Centre located just outside Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday, 12 November. The workshop is tailored for administrators/managers/librarians and developers of research institutions, funders, publishers and associations. There will be ample opportunity for networking and Q&A.
Programme
09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome / SA Consortium update Guy Halse (TENET), Wesley Barry (TENET)
10:15 ORCID overview and update Ivo Wijnbergen (ORCID)
10:35 Tea Break
10:50 National ORCID strategy New Zealand Jason Gush (Royal Society Te Apārangi)
11:00 National ORCID strategy Australia Melroy Almeida (Australian Access Federation)
11:15 National ORCID Strategy South Africa Daisy Selematsela (University of South Africa - UNISA)
11:45 Persistent identifiers for users and data (National view) Anwar Vahed (Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa - DIRISA)
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Implementation of ORCID and understanding the API Nabil Ksibi (ORCID)
13:45 ORCID in Libraries Marie Roux (Stellenbosch University)
14:00 ORCID in Libraries Lazarus Matizirofa (University of Pretoria)
14:15 Closing Remarks Including Q&A
The ORCID SA Consortium Meeting will follow the workshop from 14:45 to 15:15.
Additional details about the event can be found on the event page: https://orcid.org/content/2019-south-africa-workshop
