Item talk:Q138415

ORCID identifiers have been required for USGS publishing authors for over a decade and have become the primary persistent resolvable identifier for most USGS staff who have representation in the Geoscience Knowledgebase. They are primarily used in disambiguation, as a linkage to contributions to creative works, and as a conduit into the OpenAlex system for topic linkages. The ORCID registry itself is also consulted with documents retrieved and cached for potential future exploitation, though its application for USGS staff is highly variable. Few staff have made direct contributions to their ORCID records such as including bios and keywords which might be exploited through natural language processing and other methods to build knowledge graph contributions. As the ORCID registry begins making further inroads to more fully representing scientific contributions such as through recorded peer review activity, we will explore how this can be used more thoroughly.

Source Caching

All ORCID identifiers encountered are run through an initial process to establish that the ORCID is valid and seems to refer to the same person where the ORCID was encountered (either USGS Staff Profiles or as an author/contributor to a creative work). Both the raw ORCID JSON response and the schema.org/Person derivative are pulled from the ORCID registry and cached in the operational MongoDB store, with the latter also cached on person wiki pages (Item Talk/Discussion pages) under the "ORCID" key.