On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:50:19PM +0200, helix84 wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks as though there isn't much guidance about how to actually use > > ORCID IDs. People seem to be making things up as they go: > > > > > > http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/why-im-now-embedding-orcid-metadata-in-pdfs/ > > > > It sounds to me as though users should work with ORCID to define > > elements in suitable namespaces so usage can be standardized and our > > repositories content be discoverable with common tools. > > I can't find (in the link you provided; or elsewhere, although I > didn't try extra hard) anything about using ORCID IDs as document > identifiers, as opposed to what they're designed for - author > identifiers.
Good. I don't either. The link was meant to show that people are apparently forced to make up their own rules about how to describe a document's authorship using ORCID IDs, which means there will be a lot of non-interoperable rules out there if something isn't done quickly to harmonize them. I'm being picky because the ID format has been designed *not* to describe the author in any way. Its only two uses are (a) an opaque token for matching documents having a common author, and (b) a foreign key into the ORCID metadata which *do* describe authors. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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