On 17 September 2013 20:44, Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)isdg(_dot_)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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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk