Datatypes

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

ID orcid

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

The ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCIDs website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information).

Categories
Scientific, Person related
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
AutoType benchmark
orcid
Bioregistry
orcid
Wikidata
P496
Quality
80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation
Metacrafter rules
2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
Auto-Type, Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, metacrafter, metacrafterpro

Regular expression

0000-000(1-[5-9]|2-[0-9]|3-[0-4])\d{3}-\d{3}[\dX]

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

ValueDescription
0000-0002-1003-5675Mike Tailor
0000-0002-1825-0097Josiah S. Carberry

Sources

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