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Others have made excellent contributions to this thread, which I won't repeat, but I feel it's worth asking the question: Who is systematically cross walking these identifiers? The only party I'm aware of doing this in a large-scale fashion is Wikipedia, via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control cheers stuart On 06/05/2014 06:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > ORDID and ResearcherID and Scopus, oh my! > > It is just me, or are there an increasing number of unique identifiers popping up in Library Land? A person can now be identified with any one of a number of URIs such as: > > * ORCID - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800 > * ResearcherID - http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-2062-2014 > * Scopus - http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25944695600 > * VIAF - http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254 > * LC - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700 > * ISNI - http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715 > > At least these identifiers are (for the most part) “cool”. > > I have a new-to-me hammer, and these identifiers can play a nice role in linked data. For example: > > @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . > <http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831211213201> dc:creator > "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9952-7800" , > "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94036700" , > "http://isni.org/isni/0000000035290715" , > "http://viaf.org/viaf/26290254" . > > How have any of y’all used theses sorts of identifiers, and what problems do you think you will be able to solve by doing so? For example, I know of a couple of instances where these sort of identifiers are being put into MARC records. > > — > Eric Morgan >