Ethan White

A nice addition to the @ORCID_Org website to help integrate with Mastodon would be to support the use of the rel="me" attribute in a way that Mastodon users can use it to #verify academic identities.

This would let links to ORCID's show in green with check marks on user profiles, thus quickly proving that the account is run by the person associated with that #ORCID.

There's already an issue open, so go up vote if you'd like to see this supported

https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/issues/6668

rel="me" links are not rendered in the source code · Issue #6668 · ORCID/ORCID-Source

Websites like Mastodon, allow users to "verify" their profiles on other websites. For example, adding <a href="https://mastodon.example/@username" rel="me">Mastodon</a> to a website will let a craw...

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Nov 9, 2022 at 4:49pmWeb
Show threadBoris BarbourNov 9, 2022

@ethanwhite

ORCID profiles are not themselves verified.

https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/issues/6668#issuecomment-1309186733

rel="me" links are not rendered in the source code · Issue #6668 · ORCID/ORCID-Source

Websites like Mastodon, allow users to "verify" their profiles on other websites. For example, adding <a href="https://mastodon.example/@username" rel="me">Mastodon</a> to a website will let a craw...

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Show threadEthan WhiteNov 9, 2022
@BorisBarbour That’s fair in the sense that all verification means here is “I control this ORCID” not “ORCID has confirmed that I’m Ethan White at the University of Florida”. That said my profile includes a verified email address and you could cross-check the profile ORCID with the listed papers that have my ORCID in them, which (at least in concept) only I should be able to add.
Show threadBoris BarbourNov 9, 2022

@ethanwhite

Email addresses in the ORCID profile are not necessarily visible to the public? Nor is any information about it's verification (unlike Google Scholar profiles).

However, if you have used the ORCID for serious papers that would be a reasonable security, if rather obscure for most people.

Show threadEthan WhiteNov 9, 2022
@BorisBarbour That's a good point about folks keeping their email addresses private. Your right that ultimately it just proves that the Mastodon profile and the ORCID belong to the same person. I think that's a useful piece of proving who you are for academics, but it's not perfect.
Show threadGoldaJan 2, 2023
@ethanwhite @BorisBarbour ya trust is a web, no matter how you slice it
Show threadBrar PieningNov 9, 2022
@ethanwhite wow, I was looking for something like this.
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For now I've solved it by adding my fediverse handle as social link to my ORCID profile but that's indirect and less discoverable.
Show threadEthan WhiteNov 9, 2022
@brar yeah, cross-linking is definitely functional verification, just nice when it can be handled by the systems and not the people when possible.
Show threadJeet SukumaranNov 10, 2022
@ethanwhite People over at that other place talking about "blue ticks". Pfffft. So 2010's. *GREEN* ticks, now -- *that's* the future ;) 😆
Show thread🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴Nov 10, 2022
@ethanwhite ORCID's websites and social links section does have "me" among the values in the "rel" attributes so it should work! :)
Show threadEthan WhiteNov 10, 2022
@p4bl0 see the linked issue for why it doesn’t.
Show thread🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴Nov 10, 2022
@ethanwhite Ah yes, sorry!
Show threadEthan WhiteNov 10, 2022
@p4bl0 no worries. I didn’t spell out the details due to space but it did make it less clear.
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Nov 13, 2022
@ethanwhite My word, yes! It's pretty ridiculous that my Mastodon profile links to my own lame-ass self-hosted website from the 1990s, two WordPress blogs and ORCiD, and the serious one is the only one that I can't verify myself on.
Show threadAlex 🍁 🇨🇭Jan 2, 2023
@ethanwhite It doesn't seem like the issue is open. Can you provide the link where we can vote/support this?