Open Researcher and Contributor iD Identifier Schema

• Name: Open Researcher and Contributor iD Identifier Schema
• Alternative Name: ORCID iD
• Specification URI: https://orcid.org/node/8
• Scope: Person, Organization
• Disciplines: Subject Agnostic
• Keywords: author, researcher
• Description: The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information).