Hi Andy,
I'm interested in ORCID, but could you outline its usage outside of the academic arena and are their plans for an IPTC field?
Best regards
Tony Harris
Digital Media & Photography Officer
Government Art Collection
tony.harris @culture.gsi.gov.uk | 020 7580 9123
@govartcol /governmentartcollection | www.gac.culture.gov.uk
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Subject: ORCID identifiers for photographers
How many of you have an ORCID identifier?
ORCID, the Open Research Contributor ID:
http://orcid.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
is an identifier for contributors (including illustrators and
photographers) to academic papers, journals, websites, and other publications. It's the equivalent for such people of an ISBN for a book, or a DOI for a paper. Mine is below.
An ORCID enables us to determine that the Jim Smith who wrote paper A is the same Jim Smith who wrote paper B, and James T. Smith who wrote paper C, but not the Jim Smith who wrote paper D. It also allows us to determine that Jim Smith-Jones is the same author, after a name change, say on marriage or divorce.
Anyone can create an ORCID at the first URL given above, free, and the process only takes a few seconds. The ORCID is then theirs for life, even if they change job or affiliation.
Organisations using ORCID already include Nature Publishing Group, Cambridge University Press, Wellcome Trust and Wikipedia (I lead the integration work on Wikipedia).
There is more information on the ORCID website, but I am happy to answer any questions you might have,
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Andy Mabbett
ORCID: 0000-0001-5882-6823
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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