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The business of unique identification

23 February 2012 - 11:58pm — Talat Chaudhri

What need is there for unique identifiers?

Put in relatively non-technical language, there is an increasing concern in information science in general to uniquely identify different things, organisations or people that could otherwise be confused, whether on the Internet or in the physical world. In technical terms, these are all referred to as resources (even if people might find it vaguely demeaning in normal language to be considered as such).

Draft ORCID API is now open for viewing!

29 September 2011 - 1:57pm — Ben O'Steen

The API draft is now available for public viewing and covers:

Levels of privacy and other contextual terminology.
Public query API by way of illustrative HTTP query dialogues.
Protected Data query via OAuth.
- OAuth Workflow is illustrated in some depth

This is a pre-release of the API; it is nearly there, but it would be foolish to assume that the API will not change if any difficulties arise or if a better way is agreed upon.

Google Doc version of API:

ORCID Outreach Event at CERN

22 September 2011 - 10:23am — Ben O'Steen

Program

10:00 Welcome and what’s new – Howard Ratner, ORCID Chair (Slides [PPTX 2.55Mb])

Talk discussed:

Key quote “ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution of authors and contributors”

Re-statement of the 10 ORCID principles

Various demographics and participant statistics

ORCID Executive Update (Sept 11)

22 September 2011 - 6:50am — Ben O'Steen

ORCID in a nutshell (current strategy):

ORCID is a registry of profiles for people involved in research – a profile can be created by the person themselves (self-registry) or by what is termed a Trusted Partner, such as a University or Publisher.
The people using the system decide who is and is not a researcher, not the system itself.
A self-registered profile, for “John Smith” for example, can state that it is the same ‘John Smith’ in a profile created by a Trusted Partner and vice-versa.

ORCID – a taster of the API

13 September 2011 - 10:09am — Ben O'Steen

As the official draft API (googledoc) is both in flux and read-protected so that only those invited can see it, I am unable to give you a complete view of how things are shaping up.

However, I can relay a number of key points that everyone involved is concerned about:

ORCID: some questions and answers

13 September 2011 - 9:38am — Ben O'Steen

The following is from an email exchange with Nicky Ferguson. These are my answers to the questions
he posed, and as such shouldn’t be considered the opinion of the ORCID project itself. They are the
answers I believe are correct, based on the meetings and discussions I have been part of on the
technical advisory group.

If any other member of the advisory group can correct any inaccuracies in the comments, I’d be
most appreciative.

“The path to academic personal identifiers…

15 July 2011 - 11:43am — Ben O'Steen

… is littered with the wrecks and remains of many failed projects.”