Should we add email address to the author spec?

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Python interface to the ChemKED database format

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Should we add email address to the author spec? #89

Open bryanwweber opened 6 years ago

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

ORCID would be preferred, but not everyone has an ORCID...

kyleniemeyer commented 6 years ago

Hmm... I'm somewhat opposed to this, since we want to encourage people to sign up for ORCID—it's a permanent, unique identifier.

Email is not permanent, unlike nearly all (if not all) other data that's included in the record.

bryanwweber commented 6 years ago

I agree 100%.

To play devil's advocate, the process ChemKED->email->answer is easier than ChemKED->ORCID->email->answer if you have a question for the author. In other words, it would be a user friendly change to allow the inclusion of email address, even if its a database unfriendly change.

Hopefully we can get some community feedback on this (we are supposed to be a community effort, after all :smile:)