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Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> Wed, 18 September 2013 12:42 UTC

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From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:41:36 +0100
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On 17 September 2013 20:44, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> wrote:

> The idea is great.  By why use ORCID?  Why not Facebook? linked-in? etc. So
> many issues when its 3rd party.

Facebook, LinkedIn (and other such services) are commercial, and
proprietary. Their data is not available under a CC0 licence and their
software is not open source. ORCID's - as I've already pointed out -
are.

> While ORCID does offer an API (another
> conflict issue when API changes),

Again, the software and data is open.

> I think the IETF should offer its own
> registry database of contributors.

Why reinvent the wheel?  Even if done, that would not preclude the use of ORCID.

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