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The focus of this poster is to highlight the importance of sufficient metadata in ORCID records for the purpose of name disambiguation. In 2017 the authors counted ORCID iDs containing minimal information. They invoked RESTful API calls using Postman software and searched ORCID records created between 2012–2017 that did not include affiliation or organization name, Ringgold ID, and any work titles. A year later, they reproduced the same API calls and compared with the results achieved the year before. The results reveal that a high number of records are still minimal or orphan, thus making the name disambiguation process difficult. The authors recognize the benefit of a unique identifier that facilitates name disambiguation and remain confident that with continued work in the areas of system interoperability and technical integration, alongside continued advocacy and outreach, ORCID will grow and develop not only in number of iDs but also in metadata robustness.
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Morgan, M., Eichenlaub, N. (2018). ORCID iDs in the Open Knowledge Era. In: Méndez, E., Crestani, F., Ribeiro, C., David, G., Lopes, J. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11057. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_29
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