An affiliation item in an ORCID record asserting that the iD holder studied at a named organisation, including degree or qualification, department, start and end dates, and the organisation's disambiguated identifier.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
PhD in Physics, ETH Zurich, 2015-2019, asserted by ETH via the Member API.
Is an instance
MSc in Bioinformatics, self-claimed with department and supervisor name in the free-text description.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A single short course or MOOC certificate is normally placed under Qualifications, not Education.
Not an instance
A postdoctoral fellowship is an employment, not an education item.

Editorial commentary

ORCID separates Education (formal degree-granting studies) from Qualifications (other formal credentials such as professional certifications) and from Employment. As with employment, education assertions can be self-claimed or asserted by a trusted-organisation source (often a registrar or doctoral school). Linking an education item to a ROR ID for the awarding institution is now standard practice.

References

ORCID Inc., 'Affiliations: Education and Qualifications' (support.orcid.org).

Also known as

ORCID education affiliation

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-education",
  "name": "ORCID education",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-education",
  "description": "An affiliation item in an ORCID record asserting that the iD holder studied at a named organisation, including degree or qualification, department, start and end dates, and the organisation's disambiguated identifier.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/orcid-education",
  "sameAs": [
    "ORCID education affiliation"
  ],
  "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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