[texhax] ORCID and Biblatex

[Chris Yocum]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:28:27PM +0100, Joseph Wright wrote:
> On 18/10/2012 15:39, Chris Yocum wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I was just wondering if there was any interest in integrating ORCID
> > (http://about.orcid.org/) numbers into biblatex/biber?  I would like
> > to be able to have these as part of the bibliographic information in
> > articles, etc.
> > 
> > All the best,
> > Chris
> 
> Would this not just go down as another BibTeX field? (biblatex/Biber 2.0
> has flexible source mapping, so adding fields is easy.)

Cool.  I hadn't looked.  Thanks.

> 
> At something of a tangent, it's not clear to me that ORCHID is any more
> (or less) likely to succeed than completing approaches, such as
> ResearchID. (The latter is popular in my field, at least.)

Well, given that Thomson Reuters is a launch partner with ORCID
(http://about.orcid.org/about/community/launch-partners), I have a
feeling that they may merge at some point.

All the best,
Chris
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