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The Ecology of Identity Systems

things / about / identity

In the world of scholarly publishing, products and services are often described as an “ecosystem”. So let’s do some Biology.

Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing

things / about / orcid + river + identity + trust + presentations + work

This is a presentation I gave to the ORCID Research Integrity Webinar series - an overview of the Researcher Identity Verification framework I’ve been working on.

When is who important?

things / about / identity + thinking + work

Identity is everywhere. But does it need to be? How can we answer this question?

Building This Site

things / about / web + jekyll + ai + coding + making

I wanted to rebuild this site to be… better. The old version had grown from a pretty cool thing I built from scratch (that worked quite a lot like Jekyll) into a thing that was trying to be Jekyll, but was failing.

Thinking about Lifespan

things / about / lifespan + coding

This is an idea that I’ve been working on, one way or another, for about 14 years. It may be more than that, but either way that’s a long bloody time.

$_shitlist

things / about / coding

This is an old file that I had sitting around on my laptop, and it dates from my time as a developer at the BBC.

Unthinkable Dialogue

things / about / unthinkable + identity + thinking

A conversation between Unthinkable team members Richard Northover and Matthew Shorter…


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