[Taxacom] ORCHID ID

[Mary Barkworth]

Or maybe it is time for the older generation (I am definitely in it) to appreciate that, if one were starting out, it would be a great tool.  So older folks have to do it too - but there is nothing to compel us to check which specimens are ours etc., nor even to refer to the ORCID website - we just have to have an ORCID to plug in when needed. As hassles go, now that you have found the correct address, it may not be too bad. No worse than having to give one's email address (which, if they have your ORCID, they do not need to ask for).
Mary

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From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> On Behalf Of John Grehan via Taxacom
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 7:34 PM
To: Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
Cc: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] ORCHID ID

  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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