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that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).
The ORCID organization, ORCID Inc., offers an open and independent registry intended to be the "de facto" standard for contributor identification in research and academic publishing. On 16 October 2012, ORCID launched its registry services and started issuing user identifiers.
Development and launch.
ORCID was first announced in 2009 as a collaborative effort by the research community "to resolve the author name ambiguity problem in scholarly communication". The
Library (for their EThOS thesis catalogue), ProQuest (for their ProQuest Dissertations and Theses service), and Frontiers Loop.
In October 2015, DataCite, Crossref and ORCID announced that the former organisations would update ORCID records, "when an ORCID identifier is found in newly registered DOI names".
Third-party tools allow the migration of content from other services into ORCID, for example Mendeley2ORCID, for Mendeley.
Some ORCID data may also be retrieved as RDF/XML, RDF Turtle, XML or JSON