- From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:21:43 +0000
- To: public-lod@w3.org
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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