Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Tue, 17 September 2013 19:24 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:24:00 -0800
From: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>
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To: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
Subject: Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors
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On 9/17/13 11:14 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> For example
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3237.txt
> has 7 authors. I know that at least 4 affiliations have changed
> and at least you can't reach me anymore via the given e-mail
> address or telephone number.

This is not the problem ORCID addresses, except indirectly.
It's a way to establish that the author Melinda Shore who
worked at Cisco is the same author Melinda Shore who worked
at the Center for Research Libraries.  It is NOT a contact
mechanism, a personal tracking mechanism, etc.

Melinda