SUNScholar/Researcher Identification

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Introduction

A unique researcher id, together with funder id and research group id, allows you to produce accurate data about researcher outputs.

A unique researcher identification eliminates any author ambiguity there may exist about who authored a paper.

*** Eliminating author ambiguity is extremely important for any research information system. ***

Also see: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Authority_Control

Services

• http://orcid.org
• http://www.researcherid.com
• http://www.isni.org

Reference

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors.[1][2][3] This addresses the problem that a particular author's contributions to the scientific literature can be hard to electronically recognize as most personal names are not unique, they can change (such as with marriage), have cultural differences in name order, contain inconsistent use of first-name abbreviations and employ different writing systems. It would provide for humans a persistent identity — an "author DOI" — similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).[4]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearcherID

ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters. This unique identifier aims at solving the problem of author identification. In scientific literature it is common to cite name, surname, and initials of the authors of an article. Sometimes however, there are authors with the same name, with the same initials, or the journal misspells, resulting in several spellings for the same authors, and different authors with the same spelling.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Name_Identifier

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles. Such an identifier consists of 16 numerical digits divided into four blocks. It was developed under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as Draft International Standard 27729, the valid standard was published 2012-03-15. The ISO technical committee 46, subcommittee 9 (TC 46/SC 9) is responsible for the development of the standard. ISNI will provide a tool for disambiguating names that might otherwise be confused, and will link the data about names that are collected and used in all sectors of the media industries.

Current Work

• http://orcid.org/content/adoption-and-integration-program
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/ORCID+Integration
• http://www.slideshare.net/bramluyten/orcid-for-dspace

ORCID Help

• http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase
• http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/321374-timeline-for-creating-orcid-ids-via-the-api

Organisations

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCRIS

Definitions

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Research_Information_System
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearcherID
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Name_Identifier

Tools

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenCitation
• http://odin-project.eu