[eml-dev] Storing an ORCID in EML

[Kyle Braak [GBIF]]

Dear Matt, 

Thanks for the additional guidance. 

Just a thought, but to promote ORCIDs a bit, how about adding http://orcid.org/ to the list of examples in the "directory" documentation: https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external//emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/./eml-party.html#directory? Another candidate could be Researcher IDs (e.g. http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-4862-2011). 

Best regards,

Kyle

On Jun 28, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Matt Jones wrote:

> Kyle and Margaret --
> I agree with Margaret that you should use the userId field -- that is exactly what we created it for.  And I will be very excited to see it used, as having an ORCID would be a tremendous help in providing users with list of their data -- the Creator field can be ambiguous.
> 
> My only caveat is that I don't think you should use a bare word as Margaret suggested for the directory -- I think its better to use the URI for orcid as you originally proposed.  So, I think this would be best:
> 
> <userId directory="http://orcid.org/">0000-0003-1095-6607</userId>
> 
> I am hoping that we will being indexing content against people's ORCIDs in the KNB and DataONE soon -- it would be a great help if EML providers started inserting this field.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Kyle Braak [GBIF] <kbraak at gbif.org> wrote:
> Dear Margaret,
> 
> Thank you for your quick response and detailed explanation. It's just the answer I was hoping for.
> 
> Your guidance is greatly appreciated,
> 
> Kyle
> 
> On Jun 27, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Margaret O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kyle -
> > I've used the userId element for this sort of thing. Since it's repeatable, a party can have identities in several systems.
> >
> > I think the userId element is a better choice than using the id attribute on the creator|contact, etc element, too. For 2 reasons: first, the id attribute is used as an internal link in the EML doc itself. If we use it for other purposes, it could become overburdened. Second, as an attribute, there can be only one id (for an element). It's not likely that a person has only one 'id' (whereas <userId> is repeatable.)
> >
> > I have one other suggestion. I wouldn't put the url into the directory element. Instead, I'd say this:
> >> <userIddirectory="orcid">0000-0003-1095-6607</userId>
> > and let the program consuming the EML decide what to do with it (eg, transform to a url). Presumably there could be many ways to handle that content. As an analogy, I use a similar element, <alternateIdentifier>, for citations. Here are some examples of how they look:
> >
> > <alternateIdentifier system="isbn">978-90-481-3931-6</alternateIdentifier>
> > <alternateIdentifier system="doi">10.1007/978-90-481-3931-6</alternateIdentifier>
> > <alternateIdentifier system="sbclter-bibliography">1003</alternateIdentifier>
> >
> > By using just a string for the system="" (or for the directory="", in the case of the <userId>), it doesn't matter whether the content is a formal system like DOI or ISBN, or one that only a few people know about (sbclter-biblio). They all get handled the same way.
> >
> > But others in eml-dev may have a different opinion on that.
> >
> > Margaret
> >
> >
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> > On 6/27/14 7:13 AM, Kyle Braak [GBIF] wrote:
> >> Hi eml-dev list,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to figure out what the best practice is for storing a party's ORCID, which represents a unique researcher identifier. Here is a random ORCID as an example: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1095-6607
> >>
> >> The most obvious choice would be to use element "userId"[1] , specifying http://orcid.org as the personnel directory:
> >>
> >> <userIddirectory="http://orcid.org/">0000-0003-1095-6607</userId>
> >>
> >> Alternatively, it should also be possible to use attribute "id"[2], specifying http://orcid.org as the data management system:
> >>
> >> <contactid="0000-0003-1095-6607"system="http://orcid.org/"scope="system">
> >>
> >> I have tried searching KNB for sample documents containing the "userID" element but couldn't find any.
> >>
> >> Your guidance will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kyle Braak
> >> Developer
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> >>
> >> [1] https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external//emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/./eml-party.html#userId
> >> [2] https://nis.lternet.edu/nis/schemas/eml/lter-project-eml-2.1.0/docs/eml-resource.html#SystemType
> >>
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