GrandIR Blog: Discussing ORCID... and the Gold vs Green controversy

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-09-20

Summary:

A new GrandIR technical session was held on Sep 6th at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC) in Barcelona. This new workshop was devoted to Author IDs and ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) and brought together representatives from the various stakeholders concerned by the launch of the ORCID service, to take place next Oct 15th. The event programme included ORCID themselves (Martin Fenner, Chair of the ORCID Outreach Working Group), National author ID initiatives (Amanda Hill, Names Project UK), funders (Gerry Lawson, Natural Environment Research Council, NERC), National Research Offices (David Arellano, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, FECYT) and publishers/vendors (Philip Purnell, Thomson Reuters). Each of the speakers delivered a presentation (files are downloadable from the session programme) and a round table was held afterwards in order to discuss the requirements for an universal author identifier as well as its implications and challenges.  A summary of the session discussions follows...”

Link:

http://grandirblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/discussing-orcid-and-gold-vs-green.html

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Date tagged:

09/20/2012, 11:53

Date published:

09/20/2012, 07:53