[OpenGLAM] ORCID

Mon Jun 2 14:16:33 UTC 2014

Hi Andy, how is orcid financed?

Rupert
Am 02.06.2014 16:03 schrieb "Andy Mabbett" <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> Hello,
>
> My first post here; some of you already know me as an active
> Wikipedian, but thought I would tell you about another initiative in
> which I'm involved, and which is likely to be of interest.
>
> An "Open Research Contributor Identifier" (ORCID; <http://orcid.org>),
> is a UID (which can be expressed as a URI) for researchers and other
> academic authors. Think of it as a DoI for people. Mine is shown
> below.
>
> ORCIDs are as much for researchers and writers in the humanities, as
> for those in the sciences.
>
> An ORCID disambiguates people with the same or similar names; and
> identifies works by the same author under different names (changes on
> marriage, divorce; different spellings or initialisations, etc.) as
> being by that one person.
>
> As the website says: "ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven
> effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher
> identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities
> and outputs to these identifiers".
>
> Several journals and publishers, not least Nature, are including ORCID
> in their publishing workflows, and institutions are including it in
> their staff records system.
>
> Individuals can sign up for an ORCID at <http://orcid.org/> and then
> include it in their attribution in their research papers, other
> publications, correspondence and stationery. I encourage you and your
> colleagues to do so.
>
> Those of you who are Wikipedians/ WIkiemdians can also add your ORCID
> to your user page(s) using the "Authorityy control" template.
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5882-6823
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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