How to update published RO-Crates when a contributor changes their name?

[elichad]

User story: As a researcher who has changed my name, I want all appearances of my previous name in RO-Crates to be updated to my new name, so that my publications (and references to them) are properly attributed to me in the way I prefer.

There is an ongoing push for publishers to implement name change policies, and the Name Change Policy Working Group has been doing good work in this area. That site has a number of resources and guiding principles for developing this kind of policy.

As RO-Crate encourages the use of ORCiDs or other persistent identifiers for people, this is a good starting point. However, we do currently encourage people to include their names as well when creating their own RO-Crates, and RO-Crates may be published in any data repository - both of which present challenges if these are to be updated later.

Is there any existing guidance/practice for editing published RO-Crates that we could build upon?

[stain]

I would support this.

Presumably ORCID would be the right place to indicate preferred name.. but how do we know if that has been done? Perhaps ORCID would need some flag to "force" request such updates? Has the working group contacted ORCID? I think this should be coordinated across ORCID members.

Many mismatches found otherwise by automatic means would be because of middle names, different character sets etc. -- for instance @brandonnodnarb has lower-case name on https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/community and @ljgarcia is "LJ" -- but their ORCID says something else. Is it right for an automated software to update any RO-Crate using their other names?

Perhaps if the name is listed as "Also known as" but not as "Deprecated name" -- ORCID does not seem to distinguish these, however. I would not like to see my 2006 MSc thesis renamed to have author "Stian Soiland-Reyes" as I was "Stian Søiland" at the time... so it needs to be a personal preference.