[Taxacom] ORCHID ID

[John Grehan]

I think that is a good summation. The proof of the pudding is in the
eating, but often enough the taste may not suit everyone the same way.

Cheers, John

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:48 PM Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Fair enough, you’re not the only one to have this reaction to ORCID (the
> biodiversity informatics community has been having quite a chat about it on
> Twitter).
>
> Some may find ORCID to be useful, others not. It will be interesting to
> see where we are this time next year.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rod
>
>
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 17:33, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi Rod,
>
> I can see how this might be useful or interesting for those working on
> such connections. For me I really do not see any relevance to my work or
> life (I may yet be enlightened). Sorry to be so dismissive, but I don't see
> anything really useful or beneficial to me personally. And I am not
> interested in 'claiming' any specimens one way or the other. And I
> certainly don't care about any kind of 'cv' web databases make up as they
> may or may not be correct, but I just don't have the time, resources, or
> inclination to be chasing up on what others make of my life this way. ORCID
> just seems like another example of automated systems running peoples lives
> and we have enough of that already. But I may well be mistaken and yet see
> the light.
>
> Cheers, John
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:20 PM Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I know that for some ORCID seems like yet another bureaucratic hassle,
>> but it’s actually quite useful. Once you have one, any papers or datasets
>> that you publish will be “automagically” linked to your ORCID profile
>> (providing you use the ORCID when you submit the paper or data). You can
>> also add previous publications to your profile, so you get a continuously
>> updated online CV.
>>
>> Perhaps the coolest use that’s relevant to our community is David
>> Shorthouse’s Bloodhound project. He is trying to discover which specimens
>> in GBIF can be linked to specific people, and to do this it helps to have a
>> unique identifier for each person. This is where ORCID comes in. You can
>> use ORCID to uniquely identify yourself, then claim the specimens you have
>> collected or identified.
>>
>> For example, I’m guessing that these specimens
>> https://bloodhound-tracker.net/agent/2493732 and these
>> https://bloodhound-tracker.net/agent/39241 will include material you’ve
>> collected? You can claim these, for a nice example see Torsten Dikow’s
>> profile https://bloodhound-tracker.net/0000-0003-4816-2909 (the
>> "0000-0003-4816-2909” bit in the URL is his ORCID id).
>>
>> For more details see https://bloodhound-tracker.net/about
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rod
>>
>>
>> On 31 Oct 2019, at 15:40, John Grehan via Taxacom <
>> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Quite a few journals now require an Orchid ID and a couple of times now
>> when I have attempted to get onto the Orchid website it has been down due
>> to maintenance. This seems to be a pathetic situation where something is
>> made a necessity (another layer of bureaucracy in the web oriented world
>> of
>> science) and yet the provider cannot even be relied upon to be
>> consistently
>> accessible. Just wondering if any others have had this problem. Sorry to
>> vent.
>>
>> John Grehan
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