Re: ORCID no longer relevant?

Yes.
I went to ORCID to see if I could do the linkage to other URIs (and sameAs.org it) but found it wasn't Linked Data so I went away again.
It would be nice to think this was a bug, rather than a feature, and that it could be Linked Data.

On 12 Mar 2013, at 11:21, Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
 wrote:

> In my projects, we have been wanting to recommend using ORCID [1] as
> part of identifying authors and contributors. ORCID is receiving
> increasing attention in the scientific publishing community as it
> promises a unified way to identify authors of scientific publications.
> 
> 
> I was going to include an ex:orcid property on foaf:Agents in our
> specifications, perhaps as an owl:sameAs subproperty (I know, I
> know!).
> 
> There's no official property for linking to a ORCID profile at the
> moment [5] - I would be careful about using foaf:account to the ORCID
> URI, as the ORCID identifies the person (at least in a scientific
> context), and not an OnlineAccount - has someone else tried a
> structure here?
> 
> 
> 
> There are other long-standing issues in using ORCID in Linked Data:
> 
> 
> For one, the URI to use is unclear [2], but the form
> <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718> is what is currently being
> promoted [3]:
> 
>> The ORCID iD should always be expressed and stored as a URI: http://orcid.org/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx (with the protocol (http://), and with hyphens in the number xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx).
> 
> (Strangely this advise is not reflected on orcid.org itself)
> 
> 
> Another issue is that there is actually no RDF exposed from orcid.org [4].
> 
> 
> But the last issue is that if you request the ORCID URI with Accept:
> application/rdf+xml - then the REST API wrongly returns its own XML
> format - but still claims Content-Type application/rdf+xml.  The issue
> for this [5] has just been postponed 'for several months', even though
> it should be a simple fix.
> 
> 
> This raises the question if ORCIDs would still be relevant on the
> semantic web. Does anyone else have views, alternatives or
> suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://orcid.org/
> [2] http://support.orcid.org/forums/175591-orcid-ideas-forum/suggestions/3641532
> [3] http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier
> [4] http://support.orcid.org/forums/175591-orcid-ideas-forum/suggestions/3283848
> [5] http://support.orcid.org/forums/175591-orcid-ideas-forum/suggestions/3291844
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
>

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