1) ORCID is a non-profit organization that launched in 2010 to create a central registry of researcher identities and link them to contributions such as publications, datasets, and patents.
2) ORCID aims to support reliable attribution of authors and enable discovery and evaluation of researchers' scholarly works by transcending boundaries and making profile data freely available in standard and open formats.
3) ORCID will be sustained through a combination of free and fee-based services, with fees set to ensure its long-term viability as a not-for-profit focused on persistent identification.