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Identify This! Identifiers and Trust.

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.

This was the document I wrote proposing what was eventually to become the ORCID identifier.

I made several predictions in this interview, and it’s interesting to see which ones played out.

In 2009 Martin Fenner sent me an email asking to interview me about the “Author Identifier” project I was working on for Crossref (later to become ORCID). I had no idea who Martin was, but he asked intelligent questions and so I answered them. The result is below. And Martin and I have been friends/colleagues ever since. Fenner, M. (2009). Author Identifiers: Interview with Geoffrey Bilder. https://doi.org/10.53731/r294649-6f79289-8cw1h