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ORCIDs in the Wild: A Field Guide to the Popular Persistent Identifier

The Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID) launched as the persistent identifier for active people within scholarship 6 October 2012, has grown in use and popularity. The ORCID iD and the underlying ORCID record in the global registry, accessed via a RESTful API, can confidently be said to be the default way to identify real … Continue reading “ORCIDs in the Wild: A Field Guide to the Popular Persistent Identifier”

iDentifying your researchers: challenges and opportunities

This post was edited on 19 June 2019 to correct a factual error in the information on asserting affiliation and update information on the way information was added in the ORCID registry web API  When I first started at my current job in Jisc last year, I was asked to identify ORCID iDs connected with … Continue reading “iDentifying your researchers: challenges and opportunities”