 I'm Sheila Raven, the Orchid U.S. Community Specialist at Lyrosys, and I'll be giving a 2020 update on what's going on with Orchid and the Orchid U.S. community. So the Orchid U.S. community is a Orchid membership consortium for nonprofit institutions in the U.S. Lyrosys is the administrative home for this community, founded in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the Northeast Research Libraries, and the Greater Western Library Alliance. Our consortium was formed in order to provide a significantly reduced Orchid membership fee for organizations and to form a community of practice around Orchid in the U.S. The Orchid U.S. community was officially formed in January 2018, and has been growing ever since. As of April 1, 2020, we now have 132 members, so we're gaining about 20 new members each year, and that is growth that we're expecting to see continue. Most of our members are universities, but we do also have a few research institutes and health systems that are not affiliated with a university. And as of May 1, we will have some nonprofit health research funders, such as the Children's Tumor Foundation and the American Heart Association joining us as part of our partnership with the Health Research Alliance. So the composition of our consortium is growing and becoming more diverse, which I think is going to be great for sharing multiple perspectives around Orchid. So getting into some of the trends and activities that we're seeing with Orchid in the U.S., in addition to our consortium, which is for nonprofit and non-government organizations, the U.S. government is also increasingly using Orchid. On April 1, the Department of Energy formalized an Orchid Consortium for DOE-affiliated organizations and other government agencies. So currently, the members of that consortium are the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, AUSTI, at DOE, as well as Oak Ridge National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Advanced Photon Source, and the Center for Nanoscale Materials. In addition to the DOE consortium, other federal agencies are also increasingly paying attention to Orchid. As you might know, the NIH, CDC, and AHRQ now require Orchid IDs for certain types of grants, and the others listed here either ask for or require Orchid IDs somewhere in their research-related workflows. And because we're seeing an increase of interest in Orchid by federal agencies, specifically around funding, but also publishers and funders in general are increasingly requiring Orchid IDs and using Orchid in their workflows, we're also starting to see more of an increased awareness of Orchid within various internal stakeholder units at larger institutions like universities. So in general libraries have been the primary leaders in the Orchid U.S. space so far, and that's still the case. But for example, with the new NIH requirements, and also there is a new National Science Foundation requirement for biosketches, which involves a tool called ScienceCB that's actually integrated with Orchid. Research administrators in central research offices and sponsored programs offices are now also reaching out to learn more about Orchid. And, you know, our main contacts for Orchid at member institutions are still primarily libraries, but the more stakeholders at your institution that can be included in discussions and strategy around Orchid, the more Orchid can ultimately benefit your institution, the more benefit you'll get from your Orchid membership. So because Orchid is like an ecosystem, the more people and systems using Orchid to its fullest functionality, the more all stakeholders can benefit. So the main point here is you may be coming from the library, but you have colleagues in other internal stakeholder units that can also benefit from Orchid and should be involved in these discussions. Also another trend that we're seeing is an increase in planning and action to officially endorse Orchid across campuses and systems. So most recently at Stanford University, their faculty senate officially endorsed Orchid for use on campus. And then at California State University, the system is preparing for a statewide senate resolution about Orchid, and that's going to be voted on next month in May. So we'll see how that turns out. But that's also something that we're starting to see more of across the community. And we're also seeing more expansion of discipline specific awareness and use of Orchid. So as you might know, when it comes to Orchid adoption, it has primarily been the health and medical sciences and other hard sciences that have been leading the way in Orchid adoption so far, especially since the journals that scientists publish in and the funding agencies are recre but increasingly requiring Orchid IDs. But we're also starting to see Orchid adoption in other areas of study as well. Over the past couple of years, Orchid has been working on looking closer at arts and humanities and social sciences to see how Orchid can be adapted and used effectively in those areas. And we're seeing increasing interest in Orchid from law schools also because the U.S. News and World Report is now planning to use data from the Hine Online database to create a new ranking for U.S. law schools based on scholarly impact. And Hine Online has now integrated their author profiles with Orchid so law scholars can connect to their Orchid ID and have their data written to their Orchid record for them. So what you're seeing here is a work section of an Orchid record where works have been written directly from the Hine Online database. And if you want to learn more about the law research landscape with regard to Orchid, please do contact me and I can give you more information. We've also seen increased efforts to integrate Orchid with campus systems across our community, especially central identity management and HR systems or other central databases where person information is stored. And also other systems that are administered outside of the library or by other units in partnership with the library. So at this point as of March 2020, a little over half of our member institutions have integrated the Orchid API with at least one of their systems and we have several more in development. So we're seeing a steady increase in API integrations. Many vendor systems have Orchid built in already. And so that was some low hanging fruit early on. Mostly these vendors are current research information systems where API credentials can just be plugged in and then the Orchid functionality works. So now our institutions are moving on to more custom integrations. And looking at leveraging a centralized Orchid integration to then have data flow between different campus systems. So we're starting to look at more data infrastructure campus wide as opposed to just one off departmental system integrations. And again, something to always remember is that Orchid works like an ecosystem and the more individuals and organizations and systems that use Orchid, the more everyone can benefit from the interoperability and disambiguation of names that Orchid provides. And just to wrap up, in December we did a community survey where people were asked to select what they need the most help with in terms of Orchid adoption of their institutions. And these were the top answers. So getting faculty, students and researchers in general to become aware of Orchid, register for their Orchid ID and actually use their Orchid record. That has been a big priority in the community. Also working with internal stakeholders at institutions to plan for Orchid adoption and allocating resources and planning for Orchid API integration with systems. So these are all activities, challenges and opportunities that are at the top of mind in the community. And of course, these are all shared challenges that we can work on together. There's really no one right answer when it comes to Orchid. It's very configurable based on your context in your institution. But there are some best practices that are emerging. Different strategies may work well at one institution, but not others. But the idea of our community is that we can brainstorm together and share experiences and answer shared questions and shared advice and help each other as we move forward with Orchid. So if you want to get involved, please do follow us on Twitter, explore our webpages and resources, and contact our email here, orchidus.lyrises.org if you're interested in learning more. Thanks so much.