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ORCID

Open Researcher and Contributor ID — persistent digital identifier for researchers. Format: four groups of 4 digits separated by hyphens. Last character may be X (check digit representing 10).

ORCID

identity.academic.orcid

Open Researcher and Contributor ID — persistent digital identifier for researchers. Format: four groups of 4 digits separated by hyphens. Last character may be X (check digit representing 10).

Domain
identity
Category
academic
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "0000-0002-1825-0097"
→ identity.academic.orcid

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('0000-0002-1825-0097');
-- → 'identity.academic.orcid'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'identity.academic.orcid';

JSON Schema

finetype schema identity.academic.orcid
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/identity.academic.orcid",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Open Researcher and Contributor ID — persistent digital identifier for researchers. Format: four groups of 4 digits separated by hyphens. Last character may be X (check digit representing 10).",
  "examples": [
    "0000-0002-1825-0097",
    "0000-0002-9079-593X",
    "0000-0001-5000-0007",
    "0000-0003-1234-5678"
  ],
  "maxLength": 19,
  "minLength": 19,
  "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{3}[\\dX]$",
  "title": "ORCID",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

0000-0002-1825-00970000-0002-9079-593X0000-0001-5000-00070000-0003-1234-5678

Aliases

researcher_id

Type Registry