One identifier for a person such as a contributor or principal investigator. This element will hold an ORCID, a trusted publisher’s identifier, a JST (Japanese Science and Technology Agency) identifier, or an NII (National Individual Identifier).
External Identifier: This element holds an external identifier, assigned to a contributor by an agency such as the publisher, an archive, an aggregator or hosting service, or an ORCID authority. The contents of this element should not be confused with the @id attribute, which holds an internal document identifier that can be used by software to preform a simple link.
<!ELEMENT contrib-id %contrib-id-model; >
(#PCDATA)
Text, numbers, or special characters
<contrib>, <principal-award-recipient>, <principal-investigator>
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">http://orcid.org/1792-3336-9172-961X</contrib-id>
<name><surname>Fauller</surname>
<given-names>Betty Lou</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>BA, MA</degrees>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
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