Sure, I think that's what will happen. But I don't think there's any other way of doing it.
ORCID is solving the problem of identifying and crediting individual academics, not necessarily because the academics are frustrated (as, I think, is the motivation behind academia.edu) but for practical metadata reasons.
For sure lots of publishers are going to start saying 'do you have an ORCID?' and vice versa. I think the alternative is lots of publishers each saying 'could you log in to our custom identity service'. Around the circle we go, as you say. But what's wrong with that? It's all in the open, it's all documented, it's all (as far as I can tell) open source. And it's OAuth2 FWIW.
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Sure, I think that's what will happen. But I don't think there's any other way of doing it.
ORCID is solving the problem of identifying and crediting individual academics, not necessarily because the academics are frustrated (as, I think, is the motivation behind academia.edu) but for practical metadata reasons.
For sure lots of publishers are going to start saying 'do you have an ORCID?' and vice versa. I think the alternative is lots of publishers each saying 'could you log in to our custom identity service'. Around the circle we go, as you say. But what's wrong with that? It's all in the open, it's all documented, it's all (as far as I can tell) open source. And it's OAuth2 FWIW.
For the record, here's the list of members:
http://orcid.org/about/community/members
and sponsors:
http://orcid.org/about/community/sponsors