Add rel=me microformat support

[capjamesg]

Hello there! I have just set up my profile on ORCiD and noticed the field to add arbitrary professional links (i.e. to one's portfolio).

It would be great if this field supported rel=me, a web standard used to indicate that the destination of a link is owned by the same person who owns a profile.

View the rel=me documentation

If I ORCiD supported rel=me, my profile could say:

<a href="https://jamesg.blog" rel="me">Personal Website</a>

And I could then add a link to my ORCiD ID (which I have already done!) on my website:

<link rel="me" href="https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3736-1653" />

This bi-directional link could serve as attestation that I own both jamesg.blog and the associated ORCiD page.

Many sites support publishing rel=me, including GitHub and Mastodon. Many sites also support consuming rel=me, which involves verifying a bi-directional link exists and showing that is the case (i.e. by a green checkmark). Mastodon supports this, for example (see the purple checkmark on https://indieweb.social/@capjamesg next to my domain name).

[Hugo-Heagren]

Just so you're aware, this has been discussed before:

• there are ongoing updates in this github issue
• which links to this trello card on ORCID's (internal?) board

[capjamesg]

Ah, thank you so much @Hugo-Heagren! I will close this issue since there is already an active one.