Notes

@brinxmat You don’t need to authenticate to use public API. Just point queries at http://pub.orcid.org

@brinxmat The identifiers themselves are *always* public, hence in CC0 dump. You can also use public API to search via public data #orcid

@brinxmat Yes. Anything that has been made public by researcher. See #ORCID principles here: http://goo.gl/u8Wy0

@brinxmat #ORCID has free API too. They are committed to releasing data under CC-0 and source under MIT lic.. How is that not open?

@Stew agreed. Both CrossRef and ORCID working on improving this.