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\section{Introduction}  This is Last October, when Eva Isaksson sent out the Call for Papers for LISA VII, ORCID was just a germ of  a paper about data and archiving, about an electronic archive which is  much thought about but not yet built. topic in my mind.  I begin with had first heard about ORCID at  a story. PAM (Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics) Vendor Update Session at an SLA conference in June 2010. (1) Among those speaking on the topic of author identification issues were Jessica Kowalski from Elsevier (Product Manager for Scopus) and Ann Kushmerick from Thomson-Reuters (Manager of Research Evaluation and Bibliometric Data for the Web of Science). Both Elsevier and Thomson-Reuters were among the founding members of ORCID at that time (and today are fully integrated). (2)  On the night of February 2, 1826, after a month of unusually favorable weather  --- meaning tiring observational work --- Paulus Tittel (I use the name of  the director of Gell\'erthegy Observatory, a Catholic priest, I didn’t hear much more about ORCID until suddenly last fall, people began mentioning it  in Latin form)  fell asleep at his desk. His candle burned down, and the papers burst into  flames. He woke up and managed various contexts. I had always thought it would be terrific  to extinguish the fire, but several books and  stacks of paper were reduced have a system  to cinders accurately identify  and ash. Among them link authors’ names with their complete list of publications so my interest  was piqued. When I spoke with Chris Erdmann, I discovered that he already had  a fully  written paper on the fourth comet student (James Damon) about to send a survey to members  of 1825, the Harvard/CfA and wider astronomical community  to be sent find out how many had already registered for ORCIDs. My plan was  to engage  the \emph{Astronomische Nachrichten} astrophysicists  in Altona, together with Peyton Hall at Princeton and try to get them  all of to register for ORCIDs. With very similar goals,  the observational material recorded three of us decided to collaborate  on this object. As we can learn from the  description of the event by his pupil at that time, Ferenc Albert, they had no  time project, and  to make a copy of present our results together at  the original observations, so their work was lost, with  no chance for reproduction. LISA VII conference in June.  As a marginal note, a large part of ORCID Ambassadors (3), both Chris and I were eager to persuade people to sign up and link their bibliographies with  the old book collection Scopus and Web  of Konkoly  Observatory originates from Tittel's collection Science databases. Chris and James distributed a “Get Your ORCID” flyer to everyone at Harvard/CfA and to colleagues on PAMnet. (4) James worked with Carolyn Stern  at ADS to find out how many authors were already including their ORCIDs on papers they published. I organized a lunch-time workshop for Princeton’s graduate students and encouraged everyone to bring their laptops so they could sign up then and there. Chris arranged a posting about ORCID on  the Gell\'erthegy  Observatory. Most Astronomers’ Facebook page and even sent a tweet or two!  At the end  of May, a month before  the books LISA VII conference, we realized we really didn’t  have survived any firm data to talk about “uptake of ORCID in  the conflagration, astronomical community”. How could we even begin to measure it? It was then that we decided to survey everyone planning to attend  the siege of  Buda LISA VII conference  in 1849 --- thanks order  to Albert --- know our audience better,  and many perils since then. to find out what questions, comments or concerns they might have about ORCID.  Why do we need to archive observations? Naturally, we want to use them in  publications. Those publications need to be verifiable. The editors and  peer-reviewers, as well as the readers, must be able to go back to the  original observations to check them. The eminent science journal \emph{Nature}  requires that supporting data be made available. We must recognize that,  although most scientific papers lose their importance after some time, there  is no time limit for this requirement --- data should be kept indeterminately.  Published data are by no means exhausted data. Observations could have  secondary, serendipitous use. Or, to put it simply, information overlooked  could later lead to a discovery, as in the case of a supernova patrol plate  taken in 1968 at the Piszk\'estet\H{o} Station of Konkoly Observatory in which  a supernova was found. Later, a new one was revealed by a different astronomer.