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re: ORCID, schema.org/Person and schema.org/identifier, W3C DID: Decentralized Identifiers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28701355 https://news.ycombinat
by westurner 3y ago
re: ORCID, schema.org/Person and schema.org/identifier, W3C DID: Decentralized Identifiers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28701355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28701355 :
> DIDs can replace ORCIDs - which you can also just generate a new one of - for academics seeking to group their ScholarlyArticles by a better identifier than a transient university email address.
DIDs are typically (or always) the public key part of a public/private (asymmetric) keypair.
> When would a DID be a better choice than a UUID? [or an email address]