I recently posted a question about ORCID identifiers in DBpedia. It occurs to me that some of you may not have encountered the term before; and that many of you will be eligible to use one.
An "Open Research Contributor Identifier" (ORCID; <http://orcid.org>), is a UID (which can be expressed as a URI) for researchers and academic and other authors. Think of it as a DoI for people. Mine is shown below. 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 to do so. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5882-6823 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
