This guest post by <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230">David P. Shorthouse</a> (Assistant Collections Information Manager, <a href="https://nature.ca">Canadian Museum of Nature</a>, Ottawa, Canada) shares his <a href="http://taxonomists.shorthouse.net">compendium of the world’s active taxonomists and systematists on ORCID</a> powered with the ORCID API.