by Brian Kelly | Sep 8, 2015 | Identifiers
“Can’t Get Excited About ORCID” On Friday (4 September 2015) I took part in an interesting discussion about ORCID which began when I came across the following tweet which provided a link to an interesting post about ORCID, a standard for IDs for...
by Brian Kelly | May 6, 2014 | Guest-post, Identifiers
In a recent post on “Preparing Our Users for Digital Life Beyond the Institution” I highlighted the need to ensure that academics had a digital identity which was not constrained to their current host institution. Earlier today Jonathon O’Donnell, a...
by Brian Kelly | May 24, 2013 | Identifiers
Yesterday I attended an ORCID Outreach Meeting which was held at the University of Oxford. As described in Wikipedia ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a “nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely...
by Brian Kelly | Jan 28, 2013 | Identifiers, Repositories
“Every PDF needs a title” The day after announcing a post on Reflections on the Discussion on the Quality of Embedded Metadata in PDFs I received a tweet from @community which alerted me to a blog post on SEO Action for PDF files on the Adobe blog. The...
by Brian Kelly | Jan 9, 2013 | Identifiers
I was pleased to see the news item published by the Jisc earlier today which announced UK specialists welcome launch of ORCID as tool to identify researchers. The news item describes how: Jisc joins organisations from across the UK higher education network to...
by Brian Kelly | Nov 19, 2012 | Identifiers, search
Background to ORCID Last week the SpotOn London 2012 conference (#solo12) included a session entitled ORCID – Why Do We Need a Unique Researcher ID? As described in the abstract for the session: Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a persistent...
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