On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Dave Caroline <dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2014, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: > > ORDID and ResearcherID and Scopus, oh my! > > > > It is just me, or are there an increasing number of unique identifiers > > popping up in Library Land? A person can now be identified with any one > of a > > number of URIs such as: > > > > * ORCID - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800 > > * ResearcherID - http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-2062-2014 > > * Scopus - > http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25944695600 > > * VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254 > > * LC - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700 > > * ISNI - http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715 > > You seem to have multiple so none are unique :) > Indeed. > > > > couple of instances where these sort of identifiers are being put into > MARC > and what happens when one of the servers falls off the net or some > boss decides to modify a service, lots of data to fixup, yet again > We've seen this even with LC's identifiers -- last year a few people crawled them due to the budget snafu. This seems like a case for LOCKSS, eh? > > Dave Caroline, not convinced of the linked world prophesies yet > Uniqueness, I agree, is an aspiration rather than a reality. If we are doing well, any of those systems will - not conflate two entities into the same identifier - not have multiple identiifers for a single entity That's the intended "unique" -- rather than "one identifier to rule them all". However, I believe that ISNI is bridging between these various sources -- certainly including LC and VIAF [1], and also ORCID [2]. The thing is, the semantic web doesn't require a single identifier. We can assert that ELM's various identifiers all identify the same entity -- and *that*, in my mind, is a step forward. Anyway, to get back to ELM's question: are libraries using these identifiers? How? -Jodi [1] http://www.isni.org/content/data-contributors [2] From http://orcid.org/content/what-relationship-between-isni-and-orcid "ORCID identifiers utilize a format compliant with the ISNI ISO standard. ISNI has reserved a block of identifiers for use by ORCID, so there will be no overlaps in assignments."
