OCLC has published a report (PDF) identifying some requirements for what they call a “Cooperative Identities Hub”. A quick glance through it seems to show that the use cases focus on what we are calling the “Knowledge Discovery” use cases. As I mentioned in my interview with Martin Fenner, there is also a category of “authentication” use cases that I think needs to be addressed by a contributor identifier system. Still, this is a good report that highlights many of the complexities that an identifier system needs to address.
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2018 September 25
Using the Crossref REST API. Part 11 (with MDPI/Scilit)
2018 September 18
Where does publisher metadata go and how is it used?
2018 September 17
Welcome aboard; Event Data is production ready
2018 September 12
