Posts about ORCID unique researcher IDs. I was on the ORCID board from 2017 to 2020. If you haven’t got an ORCID ID yet, sign up at www.orcid.org, and read their excellent privacy policy
A few weeks ago I presented on “ORCID and GDPR” at a UK Consortium event. I hope this was reassuring: I’ve always been very impressed with ORCID’s approach to Data Protection (in the European sense of “managed processing”, not the more limited one of “security”), but take it from the German Consortium’s lawyers, back in […]
Over the past twenty years, I’ve seen a lot of attempts to start information sharing schemes. And a lot of those have failed, some very slowly, despite huge amounts of effort. I wondered if there pointers that could be used, early on, to try to spot those. Story First, what is the story? If you […]
There are several situations when it would be useful to have a life-long identifier that doesn’t change when we move house, employer or even country. Most of us already have life-long identifiers to link together all our interactions with the health service and the tax office; in research and education linking together our achievements would […]