orcid.org and persistent identifiers

• From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
• Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:53:38 -0400
• To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <505A14B2.1080902@arcanedomain.com>

I was just made aware of orcid.org, which seems pertinent to our work on 
persistent identifiers. It's a scheme for giving unique names to "authors", 
and based on a quick look, it's URI-based.

Noah

Received on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:54:02 UTC