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Egon<\/a> has reminded us that adoption of ORCID (Open researcher and collaborator ID) is gaining apace. It is a mechanism to disambiguate (a Wikipedia term!) contributions in the researcher community and to also remove much of the anonymity (where that is undesirable) that often lurks in social media sites.<\/p>\n

This blog<\/a> is now ORCID-enabled (my ORCID should appear at the top of this post for example, where you should be able to find it as\u00a00000-0002-8635-8390<\/a>, although the signature thumbnail \"orcid_24x24\" is obscured by my gravatar, an older\u00a0system for providing information about someone\u2021<\/sup>). We also add ORCIDs to all data depositions[1]<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

You will not yet find them in many journal articles, which was the whole original point of their introduction.\u00a0They can however\u00a0already be used to log into e.g.<\/em> manuscript submission sites, for example\u00a0the\u00a0Journal of Chemoinformatics<\/a>\u00a0and I gather many other journal submission systems will probably start using it in 2015. From there it is short step to incorporating them into journal articles routinely.<\/p>\n

To counter the slightly awkward association with “being reduced to a mere number”,\u2020<\/sup> we need to start seeing genuine benefits from its pervasive use. From my point of view, there will be one immediate application. At my university we run a system called Symplectic, which in effect tracks all aspects of one’s research activities, including sourcing online publications. Each time Symplectic thinks it has found e.g.<\/em> one of my articles, it sends me an email asking me to verify its discovery. I then have to spend 5 minutes or so acknowledging it was written by me, and then adding further links to e.g.<\/em> instrumental resources used for that research. One of those resources is the high performance computing unit here. But since that resource already incorporates ORCID\u00a0via<\/em> e.g.<\/em> [1]<\/a><\/span>, there is no reason why Symplectic need ever bother me with such questions in the future; it could automatically harvest all the information defined by my ORCID.<\/p>\n

As with many steps forward, there are often steps back, following the law of unforeseen consequences. Perhaps “identity theft” is one; how easy could it be to use someone else’s ORCID for example? I think however that ORCID is here to stay, and we should explore both the good and the potentially bad aspects of its increasing deployment.<\/p>\n

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\u2021<\/sup>Gravatar offer a list of verified services<\/i> similar in concept to ORCID. But ORCID itself is not on that list; http:\/\/en.gravatar.com\/profiles\/edit\/#verified-services<\/a>
\n\u2020<\/sup>In the dystopian novel We<\/b><\/em> by Yevgeny Zamyatin, there is no way of referring to people save by their given numbers. Wikipedia tells us<\/a>\u00a0We<\/em> is considered \u00a0as having influenced the later novel 1984<\/strong> by George Orwell.<\/p>\n

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Acknowledgments<\/h4>\n

This post has been cross-posted in PDF format at Authorea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References<\/h2>\n
  1. H.S. Rzepa, \"C 6 H 6 Br 2\", 2015. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/191199<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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