Researcher Identification wiki

This is the main wiki page. Anybody who is  logged in  can edit these pages. 

Currently this is a 'laundry list' of relevant publications, blog posts and more. Should really be partitioned into multiple sub-pages, but this will do for now:

Blog posts/discussions, FriendFeed discussions and other venues

• Announcement for this website on FriendFeed and ensuing short discussion.
• Cameron Neylon's blog post back in January which spawned this lengthy, highly engaging discussion on FriendFeed, and follow-up blog posts from Jan Aerts, Christopher Leonard and others.  
• Another blog post from Cameron attempting to summarize some of the stuff from the first FF discussion.
• Richard Cave's blog post back in Nov 2006 with thoughts on an author identification number (UAIN) & OpenID.
• Martin Fenner's summary blog post & survey on author identifiers for scientists.
• Paul Walk's blog post on how one's OpenID might gain authority over time, as well as other interesting points.

Publications

• Bourne et al. I am not a scientist, I am a number. PLoS Comput Biol (2008) vol. 4 (12) doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000247
• Cals and Kotz. Researcher identification: the right needle in the haystack. Lancet (2008) vol. 371 (9631) doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60931-9
• Falagas. Unique Author Identification Number in Scientific Databases: A Suggestion. PLoS Med (2006) vol. 3 (5) doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030249
• Aerts. Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors?. Nature (2008) vol. 453 (7198) doi:10.1038/453979b
• Wolinsky. What's in a name?. EMBO Rep (2008) vol. 9 (12) doi:10.1038/embor.2008.217
• Jane Qiu. Scientific publishing: Identity crisis. Nature News (2008) vol. 451 (7180) doi:10.1038/451766a
• Enserink. Scientific publishing. Are you ready to become a number? Science (2009) vol. 323 (5922) doi:10.1126/science.323.5922.1662 (also discussion on FriendFeed and commentary on Ars Technica)
• Smith-Yoshimura, Karen. Networking Names. Report produced by OCLC Research. Published online May 2009: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdf
• Editors. Metadata for the metaconsortium. Nature Genetics (2009) vol. 41 (4) doi:10.1038/ng0409-383

Major author identifier services and related projects

• Thomson-Reuter's ResearcherID.
• Elsevier's Scopus Author Identifier.
• CrossRef's Contributor ID project: blog interview with Geoffrey Bilder on Nature Network and summary of a meeting in 2007 with CrossRef and various stakeholders from the publishing industry.
• Okkam is an EU/FP7 funded project geared towards creating the necessary infrastructure for assigning unique identifiers for entities on the web, including authors.