A national or regional grouping of ORCID member organisations that share a single membership fee structure and a lead organisation, in order to coordinate ORCID adoption, training, and policy advocacy within a country or region.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
The UK ORCID Consortium operated by Jisc, with over 100 institutional members.
Is an instance
The ORCID-DE consortium led by DataCite Germany.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A bilateral data-sharing agreement between two universities is not an ORCID consortium.
Not an instance
ORCID Inc. itself is the registry operator, not a consortium.

Editorial commentary

Consortia are the predominant ORCID membership model in higher-education-dense regions: a national research-information body (e.g. Jisc in the UK, CRKN in Canada, DEFF in Denmark) signs the consortium agreement with ORCID and recruits institutional members under that umbrella. Members get Member-API access at a lower marginal cost than direct individual membership. The consortium lead is the contractual party with ORCID Inc.

References

ORCID Inc., 'ORCID Consortia' (info.orcid.org/membership/consortia).

Also known as

ORCID national consortium

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="ORCID consortium"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-consortium" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-consortium",
  "name": "ORCID consortium",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-consortium",
  "description": "A national or regional grouping of ORCID member organisations that share a single membership fee structure and a lead organisation, in order to coordinate ORCID adoption, training, and policy advocacy within a country or region.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-consortium",
  "sameAs": [
    "ORCID national consortium"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:19",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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