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Fake, red octopus tentacles emerging from a circular porthole window, with green grass visible outside. The tentacles appear to be reaching through the wooden-framed window from the interior of a boat.

On AI

An adaptation of a paper on “AI” that I wrote for the Crossref board for our meeting in November 2023.

Is this thing on?

Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures

Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon and I wrote a thing.

Identify This!

Identify This! Identifiers and Trust.

Disambiguation without de-duplication: Modeling authority and trust in the ORCID system.

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.