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Bilder, Geoffrey; Lin, Jennifer; Neylon, Cameron (2015). Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures-v1. figshare. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1314859.v1

I try to not be boring about identifiers. Bilder, G. (2011). Identify This! Identifiers and Trust. Information Standards Quarterly, 23(3), 20. https://doi.org/10.3789/isqv23n3.2011.05

In 2010 I was seconded by Crossref for to be ORCID’s first director of technology. At one point there was an impasse in the community over the who would “own” an ORCID record and what strategy ORCID should use to “deduplicate” records. I wrote this paper to try and cut through the thicket of assumptions and misunderstandings. Disambiguation without de-duplication: Modeling authority and trust in the ORCID system.

In 2010 I was seconded by Crossref for to be ORCID’s first director of technology. This was the document I wrote proposing what was eventually to become the ORCID identifier. The Structure of the ORCID Identifier

I was invited to speak at an internal Wiley-Blackwell seminar. Before the seminar, they interviewed me for their Publishing News. I can’t find a copy of the interview online anymore, so I have reproduced it below. I made several predictions in this interview, and it’s interesting to see which ones played out. As I review this (in 2024), I’m reminded of how insistent certain researchers were that publishers should make their articles easily available for text mining so that we could analyze the literature at scale. Of course, now we see researchers aghast that giant, well-funded AI companies have done precisely that to feed their LLMs. ...