On Fri, 11 Apr 2025, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
ORCID is designed to meet a particular requirement - providing attribution so academics can advance in their careers. While that is a security requirement, it is a rather peculiar one in that impersonation is not quite the same concern that it would be for a system accrediting (say) doctors and lawyers.
Indeed. I think it is fair to say that our identity needs are a lot closer to journal articles than it is to medical licensing.
Which is not to say we should ignore ORCID but it looks to me like infrastructure we should interface to rather than rely on.
Well, sure. Let people put ORCIDs as part of their author info, join an ORCID group so we can tweak the tooling to fetch addresses using ORCIDs if an existing address bounces. Or something along those lines.
So we should probably talk to some ORCID people. Anyone know who their technical folk are? Chances are we know them.
I would lay a large bet that if we said "here are a bunch of changes you should make to ORCID" their answer would be "how interesting, but no."
R's, John
