Slides from the "Author Identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online" session at Science Online London (solo09) with Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?

1. OpenID in Science Authenticating Scientists on the Web Duncan Hull http://twitter.com/dullhunk The University of Manchester Science Online London The Royal Institution, August 2009

4. We have way too many usernames and passwords! http://tinyurl.com/too-many-passwords Simon Willison (The Guardian) The average user has [at least] 18 user accounts and 3.49 passwords” This is the problem that OpenID is addressing

7. But there are usability “issues” http://albert.einstein.name [email_address] mcsquared OR + 84% 16% Out of 2,300 myexperiment users: