VOResource 1.1 RFC

[Markus Demleitner]

Hi Baptiste,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:02:41AM +0200, Baptiste Cecconi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:30:38PM +0200, Baptiste Cecconi wrote:
> > > The Creator and Contact of VOResource elements both include an
> > > ivo-id attribute to be used for referring to contact/creator
> > > details already declared in the registry. This is also present in
> > > the VOEvent data model and it could be useful in many other cases.
> I've posted a few links in the TDIG discussion page of last interop in Shanghai:
> http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2017-TD-001 <http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2017-TD-001>

Ah -- you make an interesting point on that page: "refer to ORCID".
Which made me wonder: what would author identifiers in the VO
Registry do that ORCID can't?  And can't that perhaps fixed in ORCID?
My take always is that fewer identifier types are better -- and when
we're confident ORCIDs will work for our use cases, we could even
deprecate ivo-id on creator and contributor...

Note that with VOResource 1.1, curation/creator already has
altIdentifier, which you can use to put ORCIDs in (contributor
doesn't though, since at the Sydney and Cape Town interops, there was
zero interest in having that; this could still be changed).

       -- Markus