[OpenGLAM] ORCID

[Jörg Prante]

You may find the ORCID governance information pages helpful, there are 
also annual financial reports:

http://orcid.org/content/our-governance

Best,

Jörg


Am 02.06.14 16:16, schrieb rupert THURNER:
>
> Hi Andy, how is orcid financed?
>
> Rupert
>
> Am 02.06.2014 16:03 schrieb "Andy Mabbett" <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk 
> <mailto: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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