Welcome everyone to Anne's webinar on orchids. We have some terrific guests today. We have Laurie Hack, who is the Executive Director of Orchid. Laurie, are you with us? Yes, thank you. And coming, leaning in through the miracles of modern science from Washington. Is that where you're at the moment? Yes. Is that where orchid is based? Orchid is, I'm based here. We're based all over the place. We have offices all over. Okay. And I assume it's a beautiful morning here in Canberra where evening time in Washington. Is that right? If you had your chocolate and snuggling into bed or? Yeah, no, it's spring here. So it's not quite that cold, but yes. Good. And we also have Amir Adyani, who's a project manager and a systems analyst at Anne's. We'll talk a little bit later about the Anne's orchids interoperability project. First of all, just a little context. And we have a series of webinars about data management, licensing of data. We have a particular interest in identifying researchers and that's because, you know, what part of Anne's mission is to have the research data, the outputs of research projects considered in some way, you know, in a metaphorical way, similar to the other outputs of research. So like a publication of a research project. And that's been a very strong push within the Anne's project is from a systems point of view, from a policy point of view, from a procedure point of view, from a cultural point of view, to have the outputs, the data outputs of research promoted up there as one of the first class outputs of research. And in doing that, you know, you come into the whole web of information about research. In particular, we start from the data sets, but that's obviously linked to the people and the organizations that create those data sets, the research projects that were the genesis of that data that was created, some of the fundamental concepts that are used within each data set so that you can link a data set to another one because it's, I don't know, it shares a concept of salinity or an observation about temperature or something like that. There are other shared concepts that link data sets together like, you know, the location of the observation or a time. All those key things help us to connect, you know, data sets to other data sets, connect data to other parts of research, and give us both a richer discovery of data, but also a richer use of data, better analysis and better integration. Now, all those things, you know, make for a very rich information experience, and people in that mix of, let's call them elements of the research environment, you know, the data, the people, the projects. Of all those, the people are probably one of the richest pivot points, if you like, in your global information system about data and about research, because the, in particular, with the rise of data citation, people wanting, you know, organizations looking for acknowledgement about data, the people really are a key pivot point, they create the data, they take part in these research grants and projects, and linking the data with the people for acknowledgement is one of the, another key plank of the ANS project. In doing that, we get information about data from universities, from publishers, from grant funding bodies, from libraries, and that information about the people and the linkage between the people and their data can come in little islands, so we get a little glimpse of what somebody's done from a university where they worked, we can get a glimpse of what they're doing from a publisher where they've published, we can get a glimpse of what they're doing from a national library of one of the countries where they've worked, but trying to pull all that information together about the researcher and their data from these diverse sources of information has, is both a huge opportunity in the, in that information science, but also a challenge in that, you know, we get a glimpse of what Amir Ariyani is doing from his employer, from his publisher, from the library, and how do you pull together all that information about Amir into a real profile of his data, for example, and his research profile. So, you know, as has been, you know, with our research data Australia portal, which is, you know, a window onto Australian data and the Australian data commons, we have come up against this requirement to pull together information about people and data sets from diverse sources. We've been working for a number of years with local, you know, with the National Library in Australia around identifying researchers, and with the emergence of ORCID last year, we were absolutely thrilled to, you know, be involved with the ORCID project because that's another way of bringing together information about researchers linking the researchers with their research output. Now, as we were saying, the research output of data is one of the core planks of the ANDS project. So with this, the emergence of ORCID is a really very exciting opportunity we see from the ANDS project to get involved and to enable this, that linkage, which really, so we see it really not that, well, we see in the words of, you know, Teddy Kennedy, what can we do for ORCID, but really what can we do for us as well, it really is a key solution to a problem which we've been chipping way up for quite some time. So we've invited Laurie here today to give an overview of the ORCID initiative and is supporting with information webinars, the webinar that you're at. We also have some technical integration which we'll hear about a little bit later. So Laurie is the Executive Director of ORCID. ORCID will hear about it a little bit in more detail from Laurie herself. Laurie's had a very interesting career in research and research management and in the scholarly societies related with search. So she has a PhD in neuroscience and has worked as a researcher with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, worked with the National Academies as well, which is a scholarly society in the States. She's worked in research management systems in the commercial world with Discovery Logic, which then became part of Thomson Reuters. So these are the research management systems that are used by research organizations. Now she's with ORCID, with all that terrific experience of all those different aspects of research. So Laurie, do you have some slides for us about the ORCID initiative? Is that right? Can we? Yes, I do. So you can switch it over to me and I'll see if I can't set this up so everyone can see this. Thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. All right, so that should be right. So it's only the 22nd here, but I guess you're used to being ahead. So what I wanted to do today for my fabulous perch in springtime Washington, DC is tell you a bit about where we are with ORCID. And for those people who aren't aware of what ORCID is, go a little bit through the benefits of ORCID and also what kind of an organization we are. I know that there's a little question and answer screen here, so we'll be looking at those. And if folks have questions directly about the slides, we'll try to field those right after the presentation. Otherwise, I know that Adrian has made time for Q&A at the end of the session. That's a good point, Laurie. There's a little module if you haven't attended one of these webinars before. There's a little module there that says questions or chat, is that right? And if you've got a question, just type it in and when we come to the end of this presentation, we'll either pass directly to you if you have a microphone or just read out the question and go to discussion on it. Good, Laurie. All right. Well, thank you so much. So, there's a number of questions that folks might have, and I've put a few of them up on this slide here. Why do I have to manually enter data? What happens to this data if I should have them to move? Are these two names referring to the same person? Maybe a question that both an individual researcher but also somebody in management or administration may also have when looking at the data they have for their university data set, repository, whatever. From a university perspective, they might want to know how can we know what our researchers have produced. This is really close to what Adrian was talking about, is how do we connect research to outputs, in particular for ANS with data sets. How do we keep our repository up to date is another big one.  Is there a way that this reporting process and repository deposition can be streamlined? How can we accurately benchmark research strengths and impact? Australia is far and away ahead of most other places on earth when it comes to benchmarking research and really trying to track research outputs, but there's still issues with trying to identify linkages between people, their activities, their organizations, and their other research outputs. And finally, a funder may be asking, as well as a university, how can we follow people who have participated in our program? So this is career tracking. Are these trainees members of our organizations? It might be something that a professional association might ask, for example. The common thing in all of these questions comes down to name ambiguity and really providing a way to identify individuals in between and among systems. So what the mission of ORCID is is centered exactly on that. We are working on a system to discreetly identify people participating in research that crosses disciplines, organizations, and countries. Without such service, the research community lacks the ability to accurately and easily identify and link researchers and scholars with their professional activities. So what is ORCID? We're international. We're interdisciplinary. We're an open organization and not for profit. We're also community driven. We listen very closely to what the community is looking for to solve name ambiguity issues and we do implement community suggestions. We collaborate extensively with researchers and organizations across the research community with universities, with funders, with publishers, et cetera, and I'll go into that a little bit more who we've been working with so far. We have a two part core mission. The first part is to provide an open registry of persistent and unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. That's the first piece. But we also know that just providing that registry is not enough. So we also work very closely with the research community to ensure that these identifiers are embedded in key research workflows. And I'll talk a bit about which workflows they are, but workflows that capture for example, manuscript submissions, grant applications, dataset deposition, and make sure that this ORCID identifier, this personal identifier, becomes embedded in that document as a piece of the metadata.  That is what ORCID does. Alright, so what is the ORCID identifier? I put the slide near the beginning because people are, what is it? What are you talking about? I want to see what one looks like. So this is an example of an ORCID identifier. It's expressed as a URI. So the identifier is this entire expression from the HTTP at the beginning to the dash 0097 at the end. It's a 16 digit number expressed as a URI and it's also compatible with an ISO standard that's been published by Izni and if anyone's been following the blogosphere, Izni and ORCID just today announced our commitment to interoperability between our systems. This is really going to help individuals in the research space bring a number of their different objects together focused on the one name identified. What I show you on the other side of the screen is the registration process for an ORCID identifier. Registration is free. It costs nothing and requires no membership. What you see here is that you have to enter your first name, your last name, your email address, create a password, decide what privacy default you want for your new research works, and then there's a few notification questions that are asked and then sign off on agreeing to consenting to the privacy policy in terms of conditions. So anybody that's listening, if you have a computer handy and a second screen, I encourage you to go ahead and register. It's ORCID.org that's O-R-C-I-D dot O-R-G slash register and tell me later on how long it took you to register. It should be about 30 to 45 seconds. Something to do while you're listening. So what are the benefits of ORCID? The benefits really depend on where you sit in the community. The ones I've put on this slide I think are the most general benefits. First, ORCID provides a unique and persistent identifier that can be used throughout an individual's career. You can obtain it at any time during your career. You can input retrospective research works and link them to your ORCID identifier and you can also use that identifier moving forward in a variety of different workflows to ensure that the identifier becomes embedded and that information then becomes posted to your ORCID record and keeps it up to date. So the second benefit is improved system interoperability again across all of these natural silos that exist today and that interoperability supports reduced reporting workloads for researchers. If your ORCID record becomes updated on an automated basis, now that you're embedding the identifier in these documents, that means instead of asking a researcher for the update, whoever is asking can actually query the ORCID registry for that information. This can assist in automating repository deposition, institutional reporting and also post-award grant reporting. Lots of things that can be assisted here. The other piece is that ORCID is an open organization. The ORCID identifier is an open standard and these APIs are open, they're posted and can be used in any setting. So we have a public API that can be used free of charge. We have a sandbox for testing both the public API and member API and the member API does require that an organization sign off on our membership agreement and pay a membership fee but we do have the ability to test that membership, sorry, the member API in the sandbox prior to becoming a member. We want people to use these APIs, we want people to develop on top of the ORCID registry and provide additional functionality. So for the benefits to be realized, however, there's three things that need to be satisfied. The first one, as a researcher-driven resource, ORCID must be seen as a benefit by researchers. They have to understand the benefit of creating ORCID identifiers. Researchers then need to actually take action and create or claim an ORCID account. But a piece of that is that research information processes and systems have to adopt ORCID as a standard person identifier, embed them and link back with the ORCID registry. All of those three pieces have to happen. For the researchers to see the benefit they have to be embedded and for them to be embedded the researchers need to see that they can actually use them. So what I'm going to talk about a bit now is where we are in terms of adoption in the community. I'll talk a bit about use and where we are internationally as well as who has actually embedded these identifiers in what kinds of systems. So this first slide usage is clearly international. This is our Google Analytics slide. We have over 120,000 people that have registered for ORCID identifiers since our launch in October. These numbers represent 11 countries that have actually more than 11 now. Over 10,000 visitors today. Almost 50 countries with more than 1,000 visitors and over 80 countries that have over 100 visitors. So while the US has about 17.5% of the total visits, that's really way less it's not half, right? It's a proportion. UK, China, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Germany, India, Australia, Japan these are the top 10. All have over 10,000 users on the site. Unique users on the site. And this goes pretty quickly into 1% a long, long trailing tail. A lot of countries are already using ORCID identifiers. There's very little bytes on the chart you see there. The other piece I wanted to point out on this slide is the steady growth since our launch in October. What I did want to mention, and this is where I don't know if you can see my mouse here. Right about here, there's actually an inflection point in the growth. We went from about 4,000 to 5,000 new users a week to about 6,000 to 7,000 a week. And so we're hoping to get another inflection point pretty soon here so we can continue to see a growing adoption in the researcher population. So I'm just going to try this. All right, so that's where we are with researcher adoption, people coming to the site and using it. Let's talk a bit about who's actually embedding ORCID identifiers. So we currently have 41 subscribers and member organizations. You can see there in the fourth bullet we list NDS with repository and profile systems. There's a number of professional associations. This is the Psychological Association, the Physical Society, Computing Machinery, the MLAs, Modern Language Association, and the World Society of Chemistry. So just reading those off, it's very clear that we're interdisciplinary. We have four funders, so the NIH, Welcome to Trust, the US Food and Drug Administration just signed up and the Department of Energy and the US is just about to sign off on a member agreement. And we've been in conversations with funders in the United Kingdom and Canada and a bit in Australia as well to encourage them to embed ORCID identifiers in the grant application process. I should mention that associations, the ones listed there, have all been focusing on their publication process and integrating ORCID identifiers into management submission. There's also publishers and publishing publishers. You can see the giant publishers, in particular the journal publishers, are all members of ORCID and we have, for example, Nature, Aries, Copernicus, Elsevier, Epistemia, and Kandawi have already integrated ORCID identifiers and are collecting them already in the manuscript submission process. And there are actually, I believe through Kandawi already, ORCID identifiers that are associated with published manuscripts and metadata for which is sitting in Crossref. So you can actually now query Crossref using an ORCID identifier and find some papers, which is very exciting considering that we just launched in October. So again, I'm thrilled. Repository and Profile Systems, a number of different organizations there on, you can see, ANDS, AVIDIS is a profile provider from universities, Crossref you know. Faculty of 1000 also provides faculty profiles big shares, a dataset repository. IFPRI is a food policy research institute node. It goes on. There's just a really great organizations that are working with working to integrate. And then finally universities and research organizations are working closely with working to integrate into faculty profile systems at the university into faculty human resource records, things like that. So Boston University is close. We have, let's see who else is on here, Harvard has been integrating into their faculty records system. And then we have New York University is working as well. And OVEDO is actually through the library creating records for their researchers. So there's a lot happening also in the university as well. So that's who we are with members. As I mentioned, here's some of the different systems that we have. Embedding in university, Chris systems, manuscript submission, grant applications, linkage with repositories. The piece I didn't mention just now is a linkage with other identifiers. So there are, I'm fully acknowledging that there are other researcher identifier systems out there. One of the reasons that ORCID was founded was because those companies, those organizations that offer those identifiers realized fully that they didn't work internationally or they didn't work across disciplines. So what ORCID does is it provides a way to link these identifiers together for one. And so now you can have both the researcher ID, a scope of ID, link to your ORCID identifier, and now all of those identifiers are linked together. If you have an archive ID or a retec ID, you can do the same thing. with your Australian national ID. We're also talking with membership professional associations to explore integration in their membership systems and also in the process when you submit an abstract to a meeting. So these are things that we're talking about. So what about the relationship between integrators and uptake? So what we find is about 30% of the registrations on the ORCID website are through these integration points. This pie chart is actually a little bit old, but we see of that 30%, about half of it is through manuscript submission. Another almost half is from linkage with external IDs like Scopus and Researcher ID. And then we have some linkages through social media sites and other sites. And so what we're doing is tracking this over time to see if that still remains 60, 30 and as other integrations are added, what are the proportions of integrations. But clearly the integration points are really important for bringing people to ORCID and registry. So this is all good. And I'm really hoping we'll have ANDS here and people coming and getting an ORCID identifier to assist with their management of data. And I know that Amir is going to talk about that a bit. So what is the ORCID registry? So what I've shown here is you have your identifier here in the big blue blog that identifies a link to a few things.  And I'll talk a bit about privacy in a minute. You also have an ORCID record component to this. You can actually add information to your biography. You can add research activities information. And then as I mentioned you can link your identifier to a number of other systems. You can link it to other identifiers. Right now research IDs and scopes are active. You can link your identifier to these research information systems at universities, funders and governments. And pretty much any research institution doesn't matter if it's for profit or non-profit. And finally you can link it within work clothes. Which we've talked about. What about privacy? So again ORCID is a researcher. It's a community driven effort. An individual essentially owns and controls the information in their ORCID record. The only thing that is default public is the identifier itself. Everything else in that record the individual controls. You can set at the item level items to be public. Which is accessible by anyone. You can set them to be what we call limited access. Which is accessible by yourself. A proxy that you appoint. Or by a trusted organization that you have accepted. And you can also set them as private. So this is accessible only by you or your proxy. At every level.  But your email address is private. The other piece of this is that ORCID, again as an open initiative, creates a data set once a year of all of the public data in the registry. And we will post that data set on the ORCID website for people to use. So anything that's marked as public by the individual will be available in that data set for reuse under a CCO waiver. Alright, so what are the personas? We have the scholar or researcher themselves. We have the proxy that can be assigned by the researcher. Trusted organizations. These are ORCID members that have signed a member agreement with very stringent privacy populations. These trusted organizations can you add or edit information in the ORCID record with the scholar's explicit approval. Trusted organizations if they are an employer of an individual can also create an ORCID record on behalf of that individual. If the individual needs to claim it. Talk about that in a second. Actually we won't. So I'm happy to answer questions about trusted organizations or creation. Again the only organizations that can create ORCID records are those organizations that are in an employee-employee relationship with an individual. No one else can do that. Alright and I'm going to show a couple example workflows just to give you a picture of how the system works. So linking to a CRIS system and importing information will be the first one. Embedding in manuscript submissions, systems in production, linking to an external identifier, and consuming data to generate research statistics. There are other out there but I wanted to make sure I didn't go over time and gave folks time to ask questions. So this is one example. This is a vendor of ATIS who has integrated the ORCID identifier into their offering for universities. This just shows an example here on this page. Pardon me. The ORCID identifier displayed on their page. They actually have a GET when you can search for the identifier and it will use actually the public API in this example to populate this field. But the individual doesn't type it in. It's sent via computer to computer interactions. This system also allows you to import publications from your ORCID records. So this is a way to help keep your local system up to date through that linkage with the record. It doesn't just have to be publications. It could also be data sets and other research works. Anything that is in that ORCID record can be used to populate this. And over time what they're talking about is making this an automated process so the individual can explicitly approve their local profile system to do the query and populate the local record. Alright. The next one, Manuscript Submission. This is just a quote from an article in editorial in Nature earlier in January by Phil Abelson talking about ORCID and the fact that Nature Journals, the authors that submit papers to Nature Journals can link their ORCID identifier account during Manuscript Submission and that they are soon going to be publishing authors ORCID identifiers in the paper. I don't have word about how that's going to be formatted but this is really great news. It also provides researchers with a very clear incentive to obtain an ORCID identifier. Linking to other identifiers. This is an example for researcher ID. There is a similar kind of thing for Scopus as well. So here we have researcher ID. When you're in the researcher ID interface it asks you if you would like to create an ORCID record or you already have an ORCID record. And then it allows you to exchange information between your researcher ID profile and your ORCID record. So it allows you to say, yeah, I want to exchange my profile data which would be essentially with biography. You'd allow to send or you could try the publications to ORCID to essentially prepopulate that record and link to those publications to your ORCID identifier. And you could also go the other way which was retrieving publications that had been linked to ORCID identifier and pushing the researcher ID account. So all of those things are possible through that interface. And then finally generating usage statistics. Here is an example from the impact story. There are some other examples. Here you have the ability to enter your ORCID identifier. And then what impact story does is it pulls your publications from your ORCID record and generates usage statistics using their algorithms. And so you can see here this is an example for me. Some of my papers and some of the statistics that they've generated. So this is again another incentive for researchers to have an identifier. A very easy way to use this identifier to check on usage for your papers and potentially data sets as well. A little bit about where we're going over the course of this year. We just were actually in the process of launching what we call an ambassador program. We're looking in particular for people at universities or in specific sectors of the research community to work with us to help us understand needs of specific communities and communicate benefits of ORCID in those communities. We are hosting an outreach meeting and a code fest in May in Oxford which is a long way from Australia. But you're welcome to join us. We're in the process of setting up a webcast. We are working on a number of workflows. So one of them is translating content on the site so that it is accessible to folks with multiple languages. And we're also working on a number of standard integration workflows. As you can see here there's publishers, external IDs, repositories and then making sure that all aspects of the ORCID registry user interface are activated. So adding things like affiliations the ability to enter information on grants and patents and then being able to cross-link works. There's a lot of things coming. We'll have another outreach meeting in October and that's going to be in Washington, D.C. So that's where we are at the roadmap. Again, every page of the ORCID registry has a little button you can click. If you have an idea, please tell us what you'd like us to be doing. You can also vote on already submitted ideas. And if you need more information, here's the information page. You can come to our website. You can go to our knowledge base to learn more about technical aspects of integration and our APIs. ORCID code is posted in an open source repository on GitHub. We have a blog. We have Twitter. And there's me. So thank you so much for listening. And I guess we can go from here to talk about what AMDS is doing with the ORCID identifier, which I think you find very interesting. So thank you so much for your time and attention. Sorry, I think I was muted there. Thanks, Laura. That was a terrific overview of the ORCID initiative. I just have a little question before we go on to what Ann's is doing. Around the governance of ORCID we'll hopefully play a fundamental role in information about research, that kind of linkage role between information from publications and grant areas and data repositories. How is the governance set up and into the future? Does ORCID have confidence that the great power that we are all hoping that ORCID will develop will be used for the good of mankind? Right. What's the relationship with the publishers and the universities? So ORCID is by design organization. The board, we have a board of directors. There's 14 people on our board of directors. They have to be members of ORCID to be on the board. And the board is majority nonprofit by design. Our bylaws state that ORCID cannot be sold, that we must maintain ourselves as a nonprofit entity. And we also have I guess you could say we have policies in place that if ORCID were to change hands, again, it remains nonprofit. But we have policies in place for how we manage transfer data should that happen. I don't see that happening at this point. So we have a majority nonprofit board made up of members. We have elections once a year. So the board chair transfers once a year in January. We switch over to a new board chair. We have members who are on the board for three years and then rotate off. We also have steering groups. So we have an outreach steering group, the technical steering group, and a business steering group. These are all open to anyone to participate. So you're welcome to go to our website, self-nominate yourself, tell me you're interested. And we also have working groups that any of these steering groups can set up if they have a particular question. So we're actually just in the process of finishing work with a metadata works group that is part of the technical steering group. There's going to be a new one launched previous slide, a new one launched to talk about claims stored, how we manage multiple claims in the data. All of these are open to the public. And we also have a very open process for development. So we have what are called Trello boards. Anyone can go in and see what we're working on in any given day. You can comment on things. And as I mentioned you can always submit an idea to our ideas board, vote on ideas. And finally our code is open source and we're looking forward to people actually contributing code, contributing ideas in that venue as well. So we are as open and transparent as I can possibly manage any organization being. If you want more, let us still and we'll find a way to provide it. The strength of ORCID is the kind of cooperative nature I suppose between the publishers and the universities etc. So really I think you've really got a very nice balance there to have a third party neutral kind of nonprofit organization aggregating the information about people from all these... Interesting about ORCID is it was really formed as a collaboration between organizations that realized that they could not do this on their own and it could not be done in a commercial setting. Thank you for the presentation. Thanks Adrian. Thanks Laurie for a very interesting introduction to what ORCID is. Well, based on the fact that ORCID provides a great platform for obtaining information about the scholarly work and what the researchers is doing, ANS initiated an interoperability project between ANS services and ORCID platform back in January. The objective was to improve the identity awareness of data which that means linking the datasets to researchers, publications and grants using the metadata that we can harvest from the ORCID repository. Now in that context the approach that we are taking is providing the solution and so forth for ANS partners to leverage the ORCID platform that includes policies, documentations, trainings and webinars and one of those webinars. In the technical point of view what we are doing we are enabling the RDA contributors to link their research collections to ORCID identifiers when they provide data to RDA. Also we are working in another phase of this project to provide RDA as a source of information into ORCID. Just for our non-Australian listeners the RDA is the Research Data Australia information portal about data in Australia. Now the roadmap of our integration is the first phase of the project which is almost complete was ORCID integration into FCS. In the second phase we are working on RDA integration into ORCID and the third phase which are mainly focused on further automation is our extended activity around this interoperability project. I get to each phase individually. So the phase one which is almost completed at this stage we deliver the ORCID identifier type as an embedded element inside the FCS Research Data Australia source code ingest and resolve ORCID identifiers. So what that enables is it provides a functionality for the contributors to provide ORCID identifiers as a related object to our collections and that's in that part the system would identify as a known identifier. This functionality would be available as part of the new software release for Research Data Australia which is on 15th May and once this happened then we would be able to say okay well at least we can have that connectivity between the ORCID records and the datasets in RDA from the Australian Organizations perspective. Now in the second phase of project we are moving more into the international domain and the idea here is that in the ORCID account and this is a similar thing as we have seen in the previous slides from when Laurie was talking about integration between nature or scope into the ORCID. Now similar to this in the ORCID interface at the current stage there is a link to say import research activities. When you click on this link it gives you options that okay well what are the source of information that you want to import. And in this phase what we need to do we aim to basically implement a workflow that it takes the ORCID user to a page in RDA and in that page the user gets the options to see the relevant datasets and collections related to the name of the person and in addition you would get the options to do extra search to say okay well this is not all my collections I have some collections under different names. This information once the user confirm that this is my datasets then they will be sent back to ORCID. So the ORCID user would be able to see that information if I go to the previous slide in a page like this when you look at the works collection in ORCID you would be able to see my datasets in that list. In addition what we are going to do we are going to actually store that information in the RDA. So when you are browsing through different collections in the research data Australia you would be able to see that this collection is linked to this ORCID account and one of the other things that would be the byproduct of this functionality is that you would be able to see the collections that are intrinsically connected because both of them are linked to the same ORCID identifier. Now this phase is the next stage of the integration and ANS development team would start working on this after the release of R10 which is, if I'm not mistaken, 15th of May. So we are hoping to achieve a dysfunctional in the live environment in late July or August. The third phase of our integration with ORCID is mainly enhancing the existing functionalities. They are reducing the manual matching by researchers is one of the goals. The other thing that they are very much looking forward to it is using the ORCID identifiers to link the collections to other activities such as projects and brands and also we have this discussion with Luria there is opportunity here to link the ORCID identifiers and NLA identifiers through the RDA platform. And also the other option here is that linking the publications to data sets. Now all of these options here at this stage for the phase 3 is very much at the planning stage so we have an accurate prioritized different items in this list. We welcome your ideas, we welcome suggestions of what are the other things that you want to see in this platform and this is the phase that is almost going to shape by the input of the community. Now this is overall if you like roadmap of RDA and ORCID integration and I think I'm going to actually stop here and don't discuss any further because we have only about 12 minutes to the end of this webinar. Give your time to guys to ask questions and you have a kind of like a dialogue monologue here. Okay so I'm handing over to Adrian. Alright thank you Amir, that's excellent and really some exciting directions there. Just to say the ANS experience of working with ORCID has been absolutely marvellous. The interfaces are all well documented and very easy to work with so if any of the organization, any other, anyone on the webinar is thinking of using those interfaces at their organizational level. I can say that our experience has been totally painless and really nice, good support from the ORCID as well. Laurie I was going to ask the kinds of people that we have on the call today are around working with at universities. What kind of scenarios have you seen with universities considering perhaps a bulk approach to creating identifiers for their employees? Yes we have a couple different approaches actually. Each university has its own culture and different ways of managing these kinds of initiatives for their faculty. One example is Harvard University which is a member of ORCID and actually has been a board member of ORCID since the inception and they opted for very lightweight integration of ORCID where they integrated the ORCID identifier into their PeopleSoft system and so when people go update their faculty record, they can then create an ORCID identifier and link it with their faculty record at that level. So it's a very, very lightweight it requires very little push from the university and quite frankly the university is not creating records on behalf of the researchers but they're providing incentive because adding the ORCID identifier to that faculty record allows them to do things like update their local profile system with publication data from the ORCID record to update repositories the same way. And so it's a very light, high impact. We have other organizations like Boston University that have gone through a pretty extensive process internally bringing stakeholders together from across the university to work out legal aspects of creating records for individuals as well as a timeline for pushing this out. So they have worked with legal to figure out, you know, is it opt out in? They have a whole process for communicating with the faculty about creating working records for them opting out if they want to same thing for postdocs which at Boston are considered students and opt in process for the students and that process is wending its way along but it's a little slow because they have to go through these periods for legal review and what they will be doing is linking the ORCID identifier to their local profile system, their Boston profile system so it's going to look pretty similar to what Aveda said which is here's the profile system, please create or link to your ORCID record and hey you can now do bidirectional data exchange which includes systems. And then we have organizations like Universidad de Ovedio, OVEDO, sorry in Spain that is spearheading from the library the creation of work records practically manually using the ORCID API. So there's a huge range of what organizations are doing and what we're trying to do is clearly articulate and summarize what these organizations are doing and provide this experience and information out to the communities that folks can determine which way they want to move. Laura, we have a question from Steven Manuel, is that right? Yes, I'm not sure whether we've got his microphone up sometimes. The system takes a little moment to warm up. Oh yes, okay, that's good. Okay, my name's Martin, I actually posed this question on behalf of UniSA and Steven's name is the one that comes up on the menu. What concerns me is that for any system like this to be truly unique, truly successful, it needs to be unique. And at the moment we've got a number of different identification systems, yours being one research writing being another for example and I feel that we're actually introducing problems because in essence we're creating multiple names for people by having multiple IDs and I really believe that what we need to do is get consensus at least from the universities possibly globally that we will utilize a particular identifier whether or not development has started on that system and then only when we have consensus everyone needs to build towards that single system. And I know that's a difficult problem but I really think that's where the focus ought to be. Right, no I hear you and so it's really hard to get everyone to agree at the same time on adoption and so looking at ORCID there was a lot of time spent developing a consensus in the community that ORCID was the way to proceed. So ORCID came together in about 2009, didn't really hire, I came on board last year so three years they spent, the board spent really working with the community to figure out is ORCID needed, how should it be formed, all of these other different questions and at the end of that determined that over 400 organizations had signed on as either sponsors or participants all saying yes let's do ORCID. So the board at that point felt that there is enough of a consensus in the community to move forward with ORCID as the common name identifier in the research space but at the same time ORCID was very careful to say look there are other common name standards out there that for whatever reason did not work on a global scale. There is no reason that those identifiers need to go away but the important thing is to link those different identifiers together using the ORCID identifier so that they're all pointing to the same person and then that individual can choose to use whichever identifier they want to but quite frankly the only one that I'm aware of that's being embedded in systems is the ORCID identifier and so I think that over time you'll start to see people using that ORCID identifier during their research career and people they're already using it. So I mean here what you're saying but I feel that the folks who started the ORCID initiative have done a lot of work developing that consensus and now it's time for those organizations that may not have heard of that to really consider and take part in the initiative as it moves forward. We have another question from Susan Robbins I'm just wondering Susan can you hear us or more importantly can we use depression is it warming up just thinking. Susan let me just read through one of Susan's questions whilst we're trying to get her audio there Susan if you're listening we're trying to say something and we'll put you on. One of the questions you have is about the integration with places such as Scopus. What if the Scopus record is incorrect? Will that corrupt the ORCID data? No so this is interesting actually so as you know Scopus was doing automated disambiguation of their publishing sorry the publication database and then assigning Scopus ID to their clusters that they identify this method and so what they do through the integration with ORCID is allow research to come in and actually clean up their Scopus record. So if something is there that shouldn't be there an individual can tell them that and if there's something that needs to be there that isn't an individual can also communicate that with Scopus through this integration and so what we saw when the integration went live which actually went live the same time ORCID went live in October was you know two countries Italy and Spain that were coming up for a national evaluation there's a huge number of researchers that came to Scopus or ORCID and did this and cleaned up their ORCID record sorry their Scopus record and imported those works into ORCID to make sure that their ORCID identifier and the proper list of Scopus articles were linked together so there's a huge opportunity here for other databases that were similarly constructed using these automated algorithms to get input from the researchers to validate the content of those and I should mention when I did this work the linkage with Scopus they had identified two different groupings that were both mine and I was able to say these are both me and then what Scopus did was merge those records together and under one Scopus ID and now link to my ORCID identifier so like I said this is a great opportunity to validate those automated clusters. Another question that Susan has is whether these things would be updated automatically meaning if Scopus gets some new information about me and I've previously linked Scopus from ORCID would the new information be updated? So the answer is yes and no. You have to explicitly approve that update but because you have approved Scopus as what we call a trusted party through that linkage process what then can happen is Scopus can now send you a note essentially saying we've found a new article for you would you like to update your ORCID record with it. What we're thinking about and we really like community input on is whether researchers would like to just approve those updates in bulk for some period of time or if there is a preferred ability to approve anything before it is linked back to an ORCID record so it's semi-automated. So again looking for community input on the preference part. Terrific. Well thank you very much Laurie. I just have to reiterate that the opportunity that ANSI's in ORCID is absolutely marvellous in that it's the right, it's a community approach, it's a trusted provider we have, it's the right kind of community of practice as well, the same kind of people who create data sets are generally linked with the major members of ORCID, the publishers, the grant funders and the universities so if you can build a strong community of practice around researcher identification with those big players in research, the research institutions, the funders and the publishers then we really see that there's terrific potential here and whether it covers everything in the world, actually we're not fast as long as it covers the particular area of research that we are looking for because I'm sure there are other identities that are used for other things but this one is looking really promising for that linkage between researchers and their output. Now so if we wanted to people wanted to get in contact with you those last, on your last slide there we had your emails, is that right Laurie? Is there a, what's the best way for an organization that's interested in ORCID to get in contact with you? Yeah the best way is through email which is l.hack at ORCID.org, it is on the last slide and yeah feel free to get in contact with me, please. And is there a did you say you had a Twitter feed? Yes we have a Twitter feed, it's at ORCID underscore org it's a really great way to follow us, we do not barrage people with information I just sent out the first tweet in a little while today about the ORCID ISNI interoperation notice, usually there's two or three tweets a week, so yeah there's ORCID.org and we also have a blog and that's like two or three posts a month and you can subscribe to that on the ORCID website under ORCID.org slash news, so yeah all of that so they are very easy to access. Good and we look forward to you know perhaps getting in touch with you again perhaps in a few months we might look at a different aspect of ORCID in perhaps more detail, this is a good overview but once we get a handle of how the universities in Australia are adopting this we'd be happy to come back again and perhaps go from ORCID 101 to ORCID for the postgraduate ORCID webinar. Exactly I would love that, that would be great. Terrific and you know we might look at from a technical point of view get a bit more information about the integration if that's necessary. Amir, to get more information about what ANZ is doing on the ORCID ANZ integration project what are we best there? Yes we have two web pages on the ANZ website, one is the ORCID page and there is an ORCID page that's called Identifying Researchers. So as we are moving forward in this project we will post information on those pages, also there will be more information available on the ANZ newsletter and ANZ on monthly applications that we have. From the technical point of view after release of ARTA there will be some follow up webinars and some follow up training materials and if you have any questions you can always contact me or other colleagues in ANZ. Okay very good. Just to talk about a little bit what's coming up on the other webinar series that we have in May there's some very interesting webinars around data citation, DOIs and data citation as well as minting stories about DOI and there is also some information about the new software release later in May as well so I urge you all to have a look at the ANZ website that's anz.org.au slash events and keep in touch with the exciting new ANZ that are coming online there. Thank you very much Laurie we'll let you get back to your after dinner court or whatever it is that you're doing in Washington and thanks so much for giving us that great overview of all of it. And thank you so much for having me. Alright we'll see you soon. Thanks Amir. Thanks for all right bye for now. Bye bye.


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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحلو العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لسيما بقية الله روحي ورواح العالمين لترابي مقدمه الفداء ما بعد respect to the scholars elders brothers and sisters السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله في حالة رمضان وفي حالة مرسي في which we fast in the topic for tonight إن شاء الله I'd like to look at is the concept of food in Islamic theology and Islamic jurisprudence and the effect that food has on the human body إن شاء الله the topic for tonight will be on three different levels the first level is to look at the importance of fasting what the Imam say that's why has Allah SWT prescribed fasting and then we'd like to look at on a general level how food may affect the human body how food in our Ahadith affects the human body how scientifically affects the human body and the second point inshallah we'd like to look at the effect in a more expandable version in which we'd like to look at particular foods and its particular effect on the human body and we'd like to look at on the reverse angle haram foods and what does haram food have as an effect on the human body and in the last and final point inshallah we'd like to look at a specific type of nutrition that Allah SWT refers to in the holy Quran in which we tend to overlook however it may affect us and would be the most important in reference to the month of Ramadhan so inshallah in order that we start this topic for tonight please help me in reciting Allah SWT محمد و آلي محمد the first and foremost Imam Zayn al-Abideen in the book treatise of rights which is known as رسالة الحقوق the eighth right that Imam Zayn al-Abideen refers to is the right of the stomach in which he puts a significant aspect and an importance to something that we may overlook which is the stomach instilling that it does have an effect or a direct effect on the human body now in the treatise of rights the eighth right the right of the stomach Imam Zayn al-Abideen refers and he says to us all that make sure you do not let your stomach become a container for unlawful meat unlawful or anything unlawful that you may consume do not let it be a container for anything that is unlawful and furthermore he gives us a medical advice he says make sure you do not eat or overeat until you are full then that's it if you overeat it's problematic so Imam Zayn al-Abideen refers to these two main points in this particular right رسالة الحقوق he makes sure that this is important now we'd like to look at what importance does this have throughout the lecture insha'Allah as we know food holds a very important aspect in our daily lives we can't overlook that where we find that the food as the narration goes or as the saying goes you are what you eat when we look at food we see that the type of food we eat or the proportions that we eat directly affects us whether it be weight management the diets that we have whether it be a bodybuilding diet whether it be a fat losing diet it's always an aspect of balance what to eat in reference with what not to eat the timings of food even in the hadith that we have as an example which we may directly affect a janeen or a baby we find in a hadith before a person is to bring up a child or before a person thinks about getting a child the hadith state you have to eat for example pomegranate it will make the baby beautiful something called quince Imam Zajad is narrated to look at a particular boy and say what and say 100% that his father ate quince before he brought him to this world giving us the idea that what food has a direct impact and an indirect impact with the upbringing of a child and it has a direct impact on what you can become as we see that for example if someone is pregnant what you eat directly affects the baby when a hadith what does it say if you recite as an example if you recite surat yusuf on a bunch of apples and the female eats it it makes the baby what beautiful and there are many more narrations in which what to eat during fasting what to eat during the month of Ramadan what to eat in separate occasions what not to eat or what to refrain from therefore we find that there's an aspect in which we do not look at in the depth that we should now that's the first point we analyze that yes there is an importance of food now let's look at it on the next level if taking into aspect the importance of food what is the effect of good food what does the Imam tell us to eat what to refrain from and what is the effect of haram food now the first and foremost the first and foremost we'd like to look at what the البيت say and the tradition of the Prophet ﷺ it states that make sure you do not overeat why? the Prophet says when you overeat you kill or you make your heart die how? if you overeat you make your heart die what references I have he says the reference is like that of crops or plants he says if a plant is over watered the plant dies he says therefore the human when he overeats the heart of the human dies he says make sure you do not overeat even when Imam Radha had the debate with one of the medical people at the time or the people that were in charge of medicine at the time he says what does your religion say about medicine and he says two things in which the person says you've said everything about medicine altogether he says do not overeat and do not eat until you're hungry that's the only thing that Imam Radha refers to and the doctor at the time or the medical field he says what he says you've just mentioned all of medicine altogether that's the cause of all illnesses and SubhanAllah the Imam has put in such a normal aspect a very significant aspect when we look at what the Imam say of what foods affect us and how they affect us the imams give us when you eat meat or an overemphasis of meat allows your heart to harden you become very very hard hearted or very solid you find anger will start to emerge in you you'll find your very hot tempered if you increase the meat intake in your diet whereas on the reverse side if you do not have any meat if you have a vegetarian diet you'll find that person becomes very vulnerable very emotional very how do we say touchy when it comes to anything he fills it straight away and that's the reverse angle that's why our diet have to be balanced that's why in our hadith you have to eat some type of meat within the week because the imams try to instill us that yes there has to be a balance in your life now and subhan Allah if you want to have more aspect of how Allah has given us on this earth the references that we want to look at look at this beautiful tradition he says look at the food that you eat he says the food that you eat directly influences the body parts in which it affects how? he says I'll give you an example and a set of examples to make you ponder over he says take an example of the carrot for example the carrot we know what is the carrot instilled what is the carrot good for in the human body the eyes when we find the carrot we look at the carrot when you dissect the carrot what do we see? we see a circle and in it a darker circle what can you see that looks like a circle and a darker circle inside it's the eye isn't it directly relates we don't think about it but it directly relates another example a walnuts you find it's a hard shell when it comes it doesn't come with an open shell when we first buy it from the supermarket when we first get it it's in a shell that shell is in reference what do we know that the walnuts good for the walnuts good for the brain the nutrition for the brain it's in a shell our brain is in what? in a skull in a shell when you open that shell what do you see you see the walnuts which resembles the brain doesn't it you find that it has a right hand side and it has a left hand side and you can divide it into two الله سبحانه وتعالى shows us this shows us these signs and it's in all his foods take another example the tomato for example if you dissect the tomato not vertically horizontally you'll find it has four different sections the tomato is known in the scientific field to be good for the heart the blood flow the heart if you study the anatomy of the heart it has four chambers for chambers furthermore look at celery celery is good for the bones what does it look like it looks like a bone if you dissect it and this is one of the most amazing ones an avocado we don't look at it the avocado in itself from blossom to harvest just over eight months the avocado looks like the womb do you start to put the points together of الله سبحانه وتعالى you begin to see this it has signs on earth سبحانه وتعالى but we overlook it kidney beans why is it called kidney beans they're good for the kidney and they're shaped like the kidney and Allah سبحانه وتعالى shows us this and he tells us this is directly influencing the particular body parts but we overlook it now let's look at another narration when we look at this is Halal food he puts us into an aspect this is what you should eat make sure that you take salt before and after a food it will what it will remove 73 types of illnesses it's to say that when you're in the daytime when the sun is up it's all to do with cycles it says when the sun is up make sure you're standing when you drink the water when the sun is down and the moon is up make sure you're sitting down when you drink the water it's not for any particular reason it's for our salvation when Allah makes something Halal and this is what you have to understand when Allah makes something Halal it's to benefit us whether we see the benefit or we don't see the benefit at the end of the day Allah knows the benefit even though we cannot see it when Allah makes something Haram it's to directly say that what that this will affect you in a negative way whether you see it or whether you don't see it even the people that are not Muslim as a Christian person in a massive seminar that he had about why the Muslims do not eat the pig and the people say we don't know why the Muslims do not eat pig he says do you know what the pig actually eats the pig you get to any farmer you tell them what's a pig doing in your farm he says it cleans up it's like a cleaning machine it cleans up all the feces anything on the ground he says he'll eat anything we have them in the farm so they clean and the whole nutrition is made out of what waste and he says you're eating all of that that's why Islam come forth and says what do not eat this particular animal because it's harmful for you and we can go into depth about how harmful the pig actually is towards the human from a scientific field how many diseases have emerged from the eating of this particular animal let's look at Haram food we've looked at and dissected this is what Albayt say let's learn with the more we can look into it let's look at Haram food let's look at foods that are questionable when we look at Haram food the narration of the Prophet that when a person intakes one remember this one piece or one bite of Haram sustenance of Haram food he says that his prayers his dua his worship will not be accepted for 40 days someone may come forth and ask why 40 days if we have a nijas or anything on us can we pray we can't pray if we have any kind of impurity on our clothes whether our skin depending on the quantity that it has we cannot do a particular act of worship obviously we'd have to get rid of that before we can connect with Allah SWT in a pure state a particular substance wasn't on the outside was on the inside that impurity has to leave our body before we can connect with Allah SWT before our worship is accepted before our dua is accepted so therefore even in scientific field it's saying that it takes 40 days until that impurity leaves your body completely what did the Prophet say the Prophet says 40 days your prayers and your dua and your worship is not accepted does it go hand in hand it goes hand in hand 100% now let's look at it furthermore what effect does it have on the body this haram nutrition what effect does it have whether it be questionable or unquestionable if it's haram whether you know it's haram or you don't know it's haram it has an idea that yes you will be punished if you know it's haram and if you didn't know it's haram it's only eating that haram that's why we say stay away from anything that's questionable because it will have a direct effect whether you know of it or you don't that's why it's so important that even when Imam Sadiq is asked he said and look at the effect that it may draw you towards the effect that haram food can make you even as a Muslim as a موالي of أهل البيت Imam Sadiq is asked why is it on the 10th of Muharram you had one side of an army جماعة they had an adhan and another side of the army also had adhan and also had jama'a he says what's the difference how is it that these majority of the Muslims fought the Imam of their time fought the grandson of the prophet of Islam look at the reply of Imam Sadiq look at the reply he says now the depth of this whether it be haram food or food purchased with haram sauce now there's two different angles however in the end of the day that haram is inside them that haram will effect them directly that's so much that they go against the Imam of their time they go against the grandson of the prophet yes that is the end result of something that will be ongoing ongoing and you remain in that state remain eating the haram remain in that particular concept that you or circle that you put yourself in that's the direct effect and that's the major effect that you go against the Ahlulbayt you go against Allah SWT it does have a direct effect on your soul when we find and this is what we mentioned yesterday when the daughter and this is why we have to teach our children this is why we have to teach ourselves before we teach our children that stay away from anything that's questionable when she got the honey do you remember yesterday when she got the honey from معاوية and she ate it as soon as she knew what was for معاوية she do she put her hand she regurgitated made sure there's nothing left in her system everything that may come from معاوية she vomited it out or regurgitated it out and then she tells him أب الزعفر أب العسل المزعفر يبنة هندن نبيع لك إيمان ودينة لانا أمير المؤمنين صل على محمد الله it's very important to look at and that's why even yesterday when we did mention the ideology of استخفار علي ابنة إبطالب in the fourth point what does he say after he says that the استخفار number one what did we say استخفار number one is that you regret the sin number two is that you will not repeat it number three you finish the worship between you and Allah get it up to date number four we say that's between you and the people number five and what refers to tonight إمام علي ابنة إبطالب says make sure any fat and meat that were what that were built based or fertileed by what by the haram sources make sure you burn that off that's what it's referred to tonight insha'Allah that food that's questionable that may affect you in a negative manner make sure that's not in your body not in your system anymore سبحانه وتعالى in this month anyway that's questionable make sure you make sure about the sources that it has before you eat it because it will affect you it will directly affect you insha'Allah and this is what I want to highlight and this is the important point for this lecture tonight is that we understand the effects that haram food may have and it's so much more even like for example even the drinks such as alcohol in them that we find nowadays if you look up on the internet that we do not even think about nowadays it has a small percentage the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what does he say he says alcohol he says he says know that if all the sins were put in one house the key of that house would be alcohol he says that's the significance of such a drink the key of that when we look at the people that fought at the house when we look at Muawi and Ali ibn Abi Talib when we look at Imam Hussein when he fought Yazid what was being drunk how was food being eaten in the court of Yazid what did Abu Huraira when we look at him as they look at him as a great companion well Iyadu billah we found Abu Huraira on the battle of Saffin where was he did he take sides was he with Ali ibn Abi Talib was he with in Saffin was he with Muawi was he with Ali ibn Abi Talib what did they find Abu Huraira he's on a tilt of sand what does he say he says well isn't it he says he says what he says the praise look at the idea that he had he says the praise behind Ali ibn Abi Talib is much more rewarding what does he refer to Muawi as he says the food with Muawi is more tasty what does that tell us brothers and sisters it tells us who the Ahl al-Bayt were and it tells us who the opposition of Ahl al-Bayt were and especially in this topic for tonight the idea of how they ate what they ate and how it affected them to make them either go towards the message of Allah سبحانه و تعالى or go against it and it's a very important topic that needs depth brothers and sisters a very important topic that we cannot overlook now the third and final point إن شاء الله when I conclude tonight and it's very brief that I'm going over these particular points the third and final point and it's very important for the topic for tonight and for Ramadan is the nutrition for our bodies that we do not look at and that's a spiritual nutrition the spiritual food that our body needs because on one aspect it's a physical food that nourishes our soul nourishes our stomach our physical beings but the food that will spiritually nourish us is the one that's important is the one for our salvation the spiritual food what do I mean when you go in this month and when you close your stomach towards these foods when you close your stomachs the imams what do they say they say make sure that for this month you fast knowing that Allah made it obligatory on us so that the rich of us know what it feels like that the poor are feeling or how the poor are suffering how the poor try to find food every day try to feel what they feel humble yourself and then it says what after you do that and you're in that state make sure you nourish your soul make sure you nourish yourself how it says and this is all taken into account when we look at the foods and how it affects our body that's one angle but what's trying to explain this when we have a hadith that say when you read Quran it strengthens your memory it makes your eyesight stronger how can you explain that to a normal person you can't but it's belief it's something to do with your soul when you begin to feed your soul with what rather than feed it with haram vision feed it with the Quran feed your soul with the vision of beauty feed your soul with if you are blessed insha'Allah to go towards Yara feed your vision with the vision of the Ziyara with the vision of the shrine with the vision of everything in and around these sacred places this is what you should be feeding yourself it's not a physical food rather what it's a spiritual food when you listen to for example Quran when you listen to wherever it may be towards Ahl al-Bayt poetry where it will be that's what that's instilling in your soul it becomes part and parcel of you when you listen to music and that's why it becomes haram when you listen to music when you listen to music why? it nourishes your soul that's why one of the aspects it becomes haram it nourishes your soul you begin towards the more you listen to it the more you become inclined towards it that's why when you listen to Quran you become more inclined towards it when you read the more you read you become inclined towards because what you're feeding yourself it's all food and the more you take the more you want this spiritual food and this is the important one this is the one insha'Allah we can come into Ramadan and say this is the one that we want to feed ourselves this is how we want to nourish ourselves during this holy month of Ramadan and because it's the best opportunity we have gatherings like we have in this particular Husayn where we find the Quran is being read and the khatmah every night is being read why? it nourishes ourselves people come after they have their foods after they gather with their families they come towards the Husayn they can read that time why? because they say we're in gatherings we crave for that company we crave for recitation of the Holy Quran we crave to be in such gatherings why? because it nourishes us on a physical level no on a spiritual level we crave these gatherings when we're in gatherings when we remember the Ahl al-Bayt the time flies even I talk in a personal perspective when we remember them even in universities when we have closed gatherings when we talk about Ahl al-Bayt the time flies and you think to yourself I was out of time from the next class and you had a three hour gap because there's barakah in it your heart craves towards it people around us that not even Muslim they crave when they listen towards Ali ibn Abi Talib and the merit of Ali ibn Abi Talib they crave it your soul is inclined towards it it's fattra as Hajj mentioned he says there's something inside you that inclines you towards someone that's why even in aspect Insha'Allah I conclude with this if you think about it there's some people you look at you've never met in your life you look at you're drawn towards them you're drawn towards them everyone can relate to this other people you see for the first time you don't know who they are you've never met them in their life but something draws you away Ali ibn Abi Talib says about this he says before your time you were made in armies whoever is knowing to one another used to be knowing to one another however anyone that you disassociate yourself with you weren't friends back then and you were first to Ali Marwah you were first to Ali Mardar it's a very explicit concept however what the important aspect for tonight Insha'Allah we want to take home is the effect that the food has on us when the imams tell us that it's to remember the poor it's not to have lovishing foods and lovishing surroundings and just feed ourselves it's to remember the poor Ali ibn Abi Talib and the last night he was hit what happened when his daughter gave him food did she give him a luscious food or did she give him three little pieces and Ali ibn Abi Talib says what look at the beautiful narration of Ali ibn Abi Talib he says do you want me to stand longer on the day of judgment you had bread, salt and a cup of milk he says do you want me to stay long on the day of judgment Ali ibn Abi Talib we end on this brothers and sisters Insha'Allah we take from tonight and we can learn to think about our food think about how we intake food think about the poor Insha'Allah and we pray to Allah Subhanahu و تعالى that he ridz away from us anything that is haram and he makes us firm on the path of Muhammad and Ali Muhammad


They taught mathematics, mathematical sciences. It was an important science. And of course, mathematics in those days was slightly different from the mathematics it is at the present time. Included are arithmetic, geometry, astronomy. All of these disciplines were included at the time. They taught the philosophical sciences. Remember, philosophy is not the same as science. We call it philosophical sciences. Science, as we understand it today, is empirical. It's based upon knowledge acquired through observation. It is bottoms up. It is based upon the injunctions of the Qur'an. That's what the Qur'an teaches us. The word of Allah, philosophy, is top-down. It is based upon axioms. And I'll elaborate a little bit upon that. But they taught the principles of philosophy specifically of Greek philosophy at the time. Because they had to come to terms with the thinking of the Greeks. There are so many people, especially from the Mediterranean. What is to the Syria and Egypt who had come into the fold of Islam and they brought with them their own method of looking at things, the transcendental things, as did the Persians and the Hindus, which is today's Indians and Pakistanis. So they taught philosophy. And they taught tasabuf. Tasabuf has always been with Islamic learning all the way going back to the time our Prophet Muhammad was born. We expand upon that too. They taught tasabuf. They taught elocution how to talk. If today, for instance, our sisters, our mothers and grandmothers, our fathers and grandfathers, if they're concerned about educating their children, please remember the following. The two basic disciplines a child must master are elocution that is language and mathematics.  So they taught elocution how to talk, how to engage in a dialectic, when you have two opposite positions, how to engage in a dialect, namely, go back and forth until a higher truth emerges from the dialectic. These were some of the subjects that were taught at the time. Now let's go back a little bit and then we'll go forward. If we go back to the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was from the Noor of Allah s.a.w. Annoor-e-Muhammadi Laqad ja'akum Noor-e-Milallahi wa l-kitab-e-mugin. Behold, there has come to you the perspicuous light and a perspicuous book, the book being the Qur'an and the light being the light of Muhammad. And those who were trained by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the likes of Abu Bakr, and Amr, Arufman, Ali, Badi Allah, all of them learned from the Prophet and the Prophet gave to each one of them according to the abilities that he saw in each individual. It's not as if he gave the same thing to all of the Sahaba. That's the reason you see, for instance, Siddiq is the truthful one. He is Siddiq. Hazrat Qumar al-Dilaban, one of the greatest human beings, stood for justice. Hazrat Usman was an embodiment of Hayyya, a word that cannot be translated in English language because Hayyya in modern language does not exist. It has disappeared in the modern world. And Hazrat Hayyya al-Dilaban, who he was embodiment of knowledge, the Prophet himself said, he is the doorway to my knowledge. Such was the luminaries. They reflected the light that was reflected from our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the light from Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to the Prophet, to the Sahaba. Then after the Sahaba, you see the Tabein and the Tabe Tabein. So, I mean very briefly the life of Umar bin Abdulaziz al-Dilaban. A great man he was, educated in Cairo, in opulence when he was a young man, gave all of them, became the Khalifa, imbibing the culture, the methodology of Umar ibn al-Khatab, tried to bring about reconciliation in the community, reaching out even to those who had walked away, he helped discussions even with the Harajis to bring the whole community together. Reduced the taxes on the people, unfair taxes. These days, governments imposed so many unfair taxes on people. Reduced the taxes on the Persians and the Egyptians. And it was during that time that the Iranians and the Egyptians became Muslims. If you plot the conversion rates in the Islamic world, it was not in the early period since the Egyptians and the Iranians became Muslims. Because at the time of Umar bin Abdulaziz, 19, 720, a man who encouraged education, such was the grandeur of the luminaries who learned from the Sahaba. And then comes the later period. So many luminaries, as if you have a light that gets diffused because of the scattering, you see, going out into the vacuum, going off like this. Then comes the period of Ta'ba Ta'been and people after that. Look at the life of Imam Abu Hanifa. What a wonderful man he was. Now, people call him the Al-Imam al-Azim. Alhamdulillah. He deserves the title. Not many youngsters know that he was at the same time a great scientist. He was the town planner. He was the founder who laid the foundation of Baghdad-e-Sharif, a city that now stands destroyed. He was the founder in year 760. He was the one who understood and established the principle of standards. You know, we have ASTM standards and this standard, the standard, you can't do anything. Who established Imam Abu Hanifa was the first one who established it. He was the one who established the principle of dialectics. People don't know that, for instance, the Hanafi Fiqh, which was the first Fiqh to come into existence, was not written down by Imam Abu Hanifa. Neither was the Fiqh after Imam Ali. Imam Shafi did have a journal from Damascus. He was the first one to start to document in any case. Coming back to Imam Abu Hanifa, he would divide his students into two groups, give them an issue that was brought before him. And it's about you take this position, you take the opposite position and until you through consensus come back to me, I'm not going to give you a judgment. It was 200 years later that all of this was written down. The man who invented the principle of dialectics which did not come to Europe until the 19th and the 20th century. And when they took it, they took it and they spoiled it, the Europeans. What I'm trying to communicate to you my brothers and sisters is that the education system in Islam which had this origin in the study of the Quran remember the following, there's so much to say when a hadith gets into it into the oceans it's impossible to stop. Remember the following, the Quran is the fountain and faith brings knowledge. Unfortunately what happens today is that people of faith they say, I believe belief is not faith. Faith brings knowledge. Or you believe in it, it's not scientific. Certainty of faith is knowledge. That's the foundation of knowledge. These people had the foundation their feet on the ground with the Sunnah on the Prophet and therefore they with authority with confidence to face the nations to the east and the west. I'm not talking military confrontation, I'm talking about ideal idea confrontations that took what was good from India that took what was good from Iran that took what was good from Egypt from Africa from Yunnan that's the Mediterranean area incorporated it amalgamated it and created civilization that was the marvel of the world for 500 years. Such was the extended education, the type of education. And how was it disseminated those days? It passed from a sheikh to a murid. Murid comes from the word murad, one who is seeking.  But murid is a beautiful word. So a sheikh will sit in Halakha and you teach what he had learned either from the Prophet or if he was a Taba Tabeer, might have learned from the Tabaeem and such was the dissemination of knowledge. So now we come back to the year 1080 after that you see the beginning of structure in the dissemination of knowledge of the establishment of the university in Baghdad and of course Allah had already been established in the year 969 by the Fatimids it was already in existence and these two colleges competed each other. They competed in the teachings, they competed in the philosophy, they competed in their approach just for instance these days if you are a technical man Harvard and Stanford for instance sometimes compete or Caltech and MIT compete or other universities. There was competition in these universities then came the later periods you had the invasions from the west, the crusades and at the same time the invasions from the east which was the Mongols about the same time and that classical civilization is destroyed and out of the ashes of this destruction you find the abulience of spiritual energy of Islam. The spirituality that came down to us from the prophet finds his expression in the 13th and 14th century not only did he save the day he converted the Mongols so that they themselves who were the destroyers of Islamic civilization that the flag bearers of the Islamic civilization Barakah Khan in year 1252 goes to a seminary in Tashkent in Bahara learns there, becomes a Muslim he was not a Muslim the word Khan is not an Arabic word you all know that. It is a Mongol word it came to the subcontinent from the Tatars later the Tatars are not the same on the Mongols that's a different story you see the abulience of this spiritual energy expressing itself through such greats as of the father Jilani of Baghdad, Sheikh Shanduli of Cairo and later on in North Africa there are so many names that come to you at the same time in India and Pakistan later and in Indonesia so not only did the spirituality of Islam save the day it carried the message of Islam to where it had not reached before namely to the Indian subcontinent to the Malay Peninsula which includes Indonesia and Malaysia to Eastern China to some portions of Vietnam to Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe Eastern Europe was it had so much Islamic influence unfortunately last 200 years because of other reasons it preceded it carried the day then comes the period which was the year 1683 very seldom in human history do you find a single date when human civilization takes a turn from one to the other what happened in 1683 and I've shared this with you in the past three very important things happened that year number one, Newton published his laws that was the date when he published it number two, the Ottoman army having suffered the DTB after the Second Siege of Vienna receded, were never able to recover from it and the third thing was the promulgation of the Futu Haqi in India by Aurangzeem Alamgir Islamic civilization which was focused on the learning of the spirituality that they had inherited from the Prophet passed on to the Sahaba and the great Ulama took a turn towards outward observations what is the Futu Haqi what is the legal opinion legalistic Islam there's nothing right or wrong I'm trying to just bring to your attention what happened so this legalistic Islam was the one that came face to face with the mercantile thrust of the Europeans in the 17th to the 18th century and the tussle lost out in the process of both Asia and Africa became colonized then comes the period when the Muslims wake up finally and they say well we have to do something about it some of them said we have to learn through the west that's when you see the emergence of institutions such as the Aligarh University in India and some of the universities in the Middle East and then also the change in syllabus even in institutions such as Al-Azhar so you see education in Islam has gone through transformations and today in this day and age we have to ask ourselves how can we adopt ourselves to what is going on in the world in terms of technology because technology changes people cultures continents what does it mean to teach in an age when a teacher is not a teacher he's a robot what does it mean to teach a child in a day when people learn through digital technology not through books what does it mean to watch a tube and learn from it do you learn from it we have to come to terms with it my appeal to all of us in here is to be open and ask ourselves what modalities can be adopted so that we retain the core the teaching of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet and I have emphasized again and again there is nothing else that you take back in this whole bus please study the Qur'an teach your children the Qur'an that's your basic that's your source it is all there you don't have to read books about the Qur'an you don't have to read books about history you don't have to read books about what other people did read the Qur'an read the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam adopt it in a way that would make it possible for you to retain the core to retain your Islamic faith based upon the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet stop in the technology so that you rise up and occupy your place deserve place among the nations of the world Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah It's a vast subject the acquisition of knowledge this mission of knowledge and there is no one single solution but we have to be open we have to look at the life of Omer Abdelhaid if he was alive in my opinion he would have adopted the best technology available in the world because look what he did he heard of the windmills he adopted the technology he heard of the documentation that Benton in the Persian Empire he adopted it not only that he hired Persian scribes many Arabs they were very good in Alapushan and verbal presentation but writing was not a discipline very common so he would have been open he would have adopted it similarly you have to look at the life secondly this is the month of Muharram Alhamdulillah most young people do not know who started the Islamic calendar it was Omer Abdelhaid he was the originator as the first month of the Islamic calendar was established with the prophet people used to be happy at the time the onset of the year fasting on the ninth day of the tenth day following the sunnah of the prophet it is the time to do those of you who can fast do fast and most importantly my brothers and sisters this is the time when we should address the issues also that divide us sometimes when I talk to my colleague the issue of well the Shias do this the Sunnis do this comes up remember Islam is the Quran and the sunnah of the prophet what came later is history it is okay to have difference in the opinion and history it is okay to discuss history isn't it time after 1500 years 1500 years isn't it time to bury the gap the device, the shia and the sunni a gap that is exploited by those who don't wish as well if you don't believe me look at the release look at what is happening in the world today isn't it time we got together on the basis of the Quran and the sunnah of the prophet I appeal to you this is a very august gathering highly educated very capable people whom Allah swt has blessed with knowledge and wealth and capability and security this is the place to start so inshallah we may start from this area let's recite Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim


Teaching English in the Czech Republic, the Salary and Budget Guide. This guide will help you answer the question, how much can I earn and save teaching English in the Czech Republic? You'll also find information on the local cost of living in order to figure out, how much to budget for when making the move to the Czech Republic. The typical salary for English teachers in the Czech Republic. Because of the huge demand for TEFL-qualified teachers across the Czech Republic, the average salary can be anywhere from 18,000 to 30,000 ck. Currently from 700 to 1200 US dollars per month. However, a lot of private language centers prefer to pay by the hour and it is common practice for teachers to work at more than one institute in order to make up a full-time schedule. English teachers in the Czech Republic working on an hourly rate make around 200 to 300 ck from 8 to 12 US dollars per hour. How to earn extra cash while teaching English in the Czech Republic? Many teachers in the country take advantage of the high demand for private language tutors. By taking on private students in their free time, teachers can earn extra money outside of normal working hours. The rate for private lessons will usually depend on your experience, but is typically from 300 to 500 ck per hour, 12 dollars to 20 dollars per hour. Getting a work visa in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is a popular teaching destination in Europe for teachers from outside the Europe, as it is possible for non-Europe citizens to obtain a long-term work visa to teach legally in the country. For more information on how to get a work visa for the Czech Republic, read our guide. The cost of living in the Czech Republic. Besides the strong demand for TEFL qualified teachers, the Czech Republic also attracts English teachers because of the relatively low cost of living. Routine expenses such as groceries and public transport are a lot cheaper than you will find in Western European countries, such as France, Italy or Spain. Cost of living in the Czech Republic. Food. If you eat out at local restaurants and buy your produce at local markets, you will be able to eat very cheaply in the Czech Republic. Milk, 1 liter, 19 ck. 12 eggs, 50 ck. Apples, 1 kg, 35 ck. Chicken breast, 1 kg, 145 ck. Rice, 1 kg, 35 ck. Bottle of water, 1.5 liters, 24 ck. Bottle of Czech beer, half a liter, 36 ck. Cost of living in the Czech Republic. Leisure activities. Czechs like to hang out with friends and enjoy their free time. When teaching English in the Czech Republic, you can be sure to have a great time outside of the classroom, while exploring this wonderful country and culture to the fullest. 3-course madrange restaurant dinner, 750 ck. Quick restaurant meal, 140 ck. One-month fitness club membership, 770 ck. Movie ticket, international release, 180 ck. Cost of living in the Czech Republic. Transportation. Large cities have a fast subway network and the whole country is very well connected via trains and buses. Taxi rides are also not as expensive as in Western European countries. Metro ride, 24 ck. Monthly pass, regular price, 550 ck. Taxi rate per kilometer, 26 ck. Start fare 40 ck. City bus, 24 ck. Cost of living in the Czech Republic. Travel in the Czech Republic and beyond. The Czech Republic is world famous for its beautiful landscape and scenery and you should definitely take advantage of the low price of train tickets to explore the country. One night in a madrange hotel, 1000 ck. Train from Prague to Bernau, 2.5 hours, 109 ck. Train from Prague to Vienna, 4 hours, 750 ck. Sample monthly teacher budget. To give you an example of how an English teacher in the Czech Republic spends their salary, here is a sample monthly budget, gross income, salary, 25,000 ck. Average. Rent, shared or one bedroom, 8,500 ck. Utilities, electricity, gas, water, 4,200 ck. Phone and internet, 480 ck. Food, 3000 ck. Insurance, 500 ck. Remaining disposable income, 8,320 ck. Currently 370 US dollars. How much you can save when teaching English in the Czech Republic? As you can see from the sample budget above, you will be left with approximately 370 US dollars after the average expenses. This amount varies, of course, depending on your salary and location. However, it is true that you won't be able to save as much while teaching English in the Czech Republic, compared to places in Asia, for example, where the salaries are generally higher and the cost of living even lower. However, you will still have the time of your life when teaching English in the Czech Republic because of its welcoming culture and exciting things to see and do. Take your TEFL TESOL in class course in Prague. ITTT has an in-class TEFL course in Prague, where you can spend 4 weeks learning everything you need to know about teaching your own English classes abroad.