Referencing personal name identifiers other than ORCiD

[John Howard]

In implementing Signposting, my observation was that amongst existing records in our repository, names of academic authors are still more often were associated with a controlled vocabulary/linked data resource, such as Viaf, than with ORCiDs.

I'd be curious if anyone has given consideration to referencing Viaf (or ISNI, etc) references to authors in HTTP link headers ... or is there an intention to focus only on the ORCiDs?

John

[Herbert Van de Sompel]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:40 PM, John Howard <john.b...@ucd.ie> wrote:

In implementing Signposting, my observation was that amongst existing records in our repository, names of academic authors are still more often were associated with a controlled vocabulary/linked data resource, such as Viaf, than with ORCiDs.

I'd be curious if anyone has given consideration to referencing Viaf (or ISNI, etc) references to authors in HTTP link headers ... or is there an intention to focus only on the ORCiDs?

Thanks for this, John. 

ORCID is used in the example because it is gaining significant momentum and, because - among others because of the THOR project - we can expect increased interoperation with some other identifier systems, e.g. DOI. 

But, as long as author identifiers are expressed according to a common URI scheme and uniquely identify an author, they are acceptable as the target URI of a link with the "author" relation type, IMO. After all, eventually, it should become possible to crosswalk between all of these identifiers. So, from that perspective VIAF can be used as long as it is expressed as e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/31835361 . 

Thinking about backlog journal articles, it strikes me that publishers have been gathering author email addresses for a long time. These could be exposed using the mailto URI scheme, e.g. mailto:herb...@lanl.gov . Here, one might run into a uniqueness problem in case institutions recycle email addresses of alumni. I am not sure how common that is ...

Cheers

Herbert

 

John

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Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
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