The buzz around people identifiers
In Science this week Martin Enserink writes about Thomson's Researcher ID and CrossRef's Contributor ID project in "Are You Ready to Become a Number?", including an interview with Geoff Bilder.
DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5922.1662.
I'll be talking about the subject at tomorrow's Allen Press Best Practices seminar. I'll be on the panel with Philip Bourne, computational biologist and author of the recent paper "I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number", PLoS Comput Biol 4(12): e1000247. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000247.