[eml-dev] Storing an ORCID in EML

[Margaret O'Brien]

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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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
http://sbc.lternet.edu

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
> Secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
> Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
> Denmark, Europe
> www.gbif.org <http://www.gbif.org/>
>
> [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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