The use of DOIs, RORs, and ORCID iDs align with key parts of NTL's role as defined in the 2012 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), including mandates to:
By incorporating DOIs, RORs, and ORCID iDs, NTL is continuing its mission to make data available to the public and help increase data sharing in the community. An overview of NTL's research process and public access workflow can be seen below.
The integration of DOIs and ORCID iDs into NTL’s workflow can be seen in two major parts of the Plan to Increase Public Access to the Results of Federally-Funded Scientific Research Results, 7.2 Before Research Begins and 7.4.2 Data. These parts of the plan go into detail about the requirements that NTL has outlined to increase public access and data sharing, of which DOIs and ORCID iDs play an important part. As ROR is a newer organization, it is not currently mentioned in the most recent version of the Public Access Plan. However, upon the release of an updated Public Access Plan, ROR IDs will be included as a required aspect of DOT and DOT funded research.
In reference to data depositing requirements:
This section further addresses that DOT data management plans will include a section that addresses plans for citation, archiving and preservation and that all datasets will need to be given a DOI.
DOIs are a key part of the curation process at NTL. For more information consult NTL's Digital Curation Policy.
For more information on ORCID iDs check out: