 Hi Laurie. Thanks for Laurie Hack. We're joined today by Laurie Hack, who's the Executive Director of Orchid, which is an open researcher ID initiative that's really gaining traction in the research world. Laurie, why has Orchid been formed and who is behind it? Orchid is a collaboration between a number of different organizations in the research community, a number of whom have tried to disambiguate or understand who the researchers are and how they're connected to their works and have failed and have decided to come together and collaborate by creating a nonprofit organization that works across sectors, across organizational boundaries, discipline boundaries, and national boundaries to create a registry for individuals to create a persistent and unique identifier for themselves and also works with the community to make sure that these identifiers are embedded in research information systems and that the identifier is collected when a researcher submits a manuscript or grant and other kinds of things and becomes a piece of the metadata on these various documents and activities. So from a practical point of view, this would allow me as a researcher to link what would I link to my Orchid ID or to my Orchid profile? What kind of things would it allow me to do? You would be able to link your identifier to a manuscript, so a journal publication, a book, a data set, a research grant, your affiliation, pretty much any research activity or work from your professional life. You could link back to your Orchid identifier. I already have linkages I assume within the different places where I might publish, but this means that I can bring all of those together. Is that the idea that not just my profile with a particular publisher or research organization, but being able to somehow bring all those together? Is that the idea? Exactly. And the wonderful thing about Orchid is that it's an identifier that travels with you throughout your career and so if you happen to change institutions, which many researchers do, this identifier stays with you and all the data also does. And so, yeah, if you have a collection of publications, you can link that to your Orchid identifier. If you have data sets, you can link it as you move this information moves with you. You started a new university. All you have to do is point that university to your Orchid record and they can download that information to create your new university record and use that for their evaluation, for their website, all of that. So it's a really great time saver. An individual can also do the same thing when, for example, applying for a grant, you can use the information from the registry to support the grant application process and also the post-award reporting process. So you've got publishers and grant organizations involved in Orchid, is that right? Yes, so publishers are on board and a number of them have already integrated, working into manuscript submission. We have funders, research funders also are involved. Data repositories are involved, universities are involved, and vendors are involved. So how do you keep all those erstwhile enemies together? As I said, they tried to do it on their own and it didn't work and they really saw that coming together and collaborating through Orchid was the way that they were going to solve their individual problems. Terrific. Well, all the power to your arm, let's hope, because linking people together and particularly with the global information systems we have now the number of people with similar names or variations of names that's a really big international job and so let's encourage the uptake of Orchid if people do want to get involved then how they contact you. Right, so you can go to orchid.org and register for free and orchid.org also has information on membership, information on integration, our knowledge base and link is to Orchid development. All of that is through our website. Good, and there's a longer version of this interview where we are going to, you know, all the details, et cetera, a good nice one hour seminar. So if people are interested in that, they should also look on the ANZ website and we've got information there about integration that ANZ is doing as well. Well, thank you so much for joining us, Laurie, and we hope to get you back sometime in the near future to get a few more details about the Orchid system. Thank you so much. All right, see you soon.