ORCID + Zotero + PubMed
Today, the U.S. National Library of Medicine announced the new PubMed XML format for 2013. This includes ORCID numbers. (I think this is wonderful.) I have concerns about the success of the ORCID project if it doesn't get a robust initial response.
Given that the next major update to Zotero may arrive before the end of this year, are there plans to incorporate author ORCID labels?
What of ORCID and CSL?
Related forum threads:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/16547
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19570
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22722
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12538
NLM announcement:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/announce/2012.html#2012CHANGES
Given that the next major update to Zotero may arrive before the end of this year, are there plans to incorporate author ORCID labels?
What of ORCID and CSL?
Related forum threads:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/16547
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19570
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22722
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12538
NLM announcement:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/announce/2012.html#2012CHANGES
As for adding a way to render ORCIDs with CSL styles, I'd like to wait until styles pop up that actually require inclusion of ORCIDs.
That is an important but different issue from Zotero importing ORCIDs from PubMed or other sources. It looks as though the PubMed translator may need some other changes because of the 2013 changes. I was wondering if Zotero will be importing the newly available ORCIDs and how they might be used in Zotero to connect those authors' to their papers that are already in the Zotero library.
Personally I'd like to see reference managers move first here before we tackle this on the CSL side. The mere existence of some structure/variable is useless without reference manager buy-in (more so for something like ORCID that needs to be related to other data than for something like PMID that's just an added field/variable), and I'd like to see what reference managers do here before we decide how CSL can/should take advantage of ORCIDS. (I've never talked to anyone else CSL-related about this, though, so this is really strictly my personal opinion).
With my SafetyLit database I have both an ORCID table and a VIAF table associated with authors in the author table. This allows name disambiguation upon import from PubMed xml and a few publisher systems.