On 14. Apr 2025, at 03:08, John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> That would work although I would be pretty surprised if there were another 
> identifier other than ORCID.  It's been around for over a decade and everyone 
> in academic publishing uses it.

Well, I don’t know about you, but maybe I’d like to have my Normdaten from 
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in there as well, even if the information they keep 
can be, er, a bit unmaintained?

https://d-nb.info/gnd/124355498

Here’s yours:

https://d-nb.info/gnd/113571747

Generally, even if we adopt ORCID as our preferred identifier (*), we should 
heed the principle of design for choice.

Grüße, Carsten

(*) Compare the German concept of Lebensabschnittspartner :-)

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