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It would be interesting if it would be possible to 'chain' or 'web' presences from one platform to another. For examle, your X profile could contain a string like "bsky:something fedi:someone@something.social", to create a one-direction link from platform to platform. Unfortunately, that linkage can be tenuous: Post-acquisition, there were rumors that folks on X were getting penalized for pointing people to other platforms. One of the benefits of a DID-like is that it can be parsed. Lots of folks have probably seen the DOI, a pointer to a specific publication. Here are two that folks might not know: • The ORCID (https://info.orcid.org/researchers/), a unique ID for researchers, and a place for researchers to provide information about themselves, their affiliated institutions, and their publications. • The RRID (https://rrid.site), a unique ID for research materials & tools. You can identify a specific antibody, or a specific DNA sequencer, or a particular HPC platform. These are all centralized repositories of things (researchers, plasmids, instruments, …), all with the purpose of making it easier to identify, find, and connect things. |