Add ORCID identifier to user profile
Problem to solve
https://orcid.org/ says
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.
GitLab has Skype, Linkedin and Twitter as third party identifiers. Would be great to include ORCID as third party identifiers to make GitLab friendly to the research/academic community.
Further details
Have the ORCID identifier in the profile and exposed in GitLab API would allow developers focus on research/academic to build third party products and improve GitLab ecosystem. For example, integrate GitLab repositories with data repositories (see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35023).
Proposal
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
Sucess could be measure by how many users include their ORCID into their profile in the first month after this feature is included.