ORCID UK Support Blog

Newsflash – ORCID responds to delegating tokens discussions

Newsflash! ORCID have responded positively to the previous blog posting (Revoking ORCID tokens). They have now brought forward the implementation of the revocation API that we discussed. We advise all ORCID partners to start making use of it to limit the number of unnecessarily active tokens. More details can be found here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orcid-api-users/xMNKBsAMs50/OAXqOmZICAAJ Many thanks … Continue reading “Newsflash – ORCID responds to delegating tokens discussions”

Delegating tokens – the details

Neil Jefferies, University of Oxford, concludes the reports from a workshop held in the last quarter of 2017 – thank you very much to Neil for spearheading this discussion and sharing the outcomes with the community. This is the final blog posting arising from the ORCID Delegation workshop held on the 10th October at Jisc … Continue reading “Delegating tokens – the details”

Revoking ORCID Tokens

We are delighted to publish this second blog contributed by Neil Jefferies, arising from the ORCID Delegation workshop held on the 10th October at Jisc in London. See the previous blog for more detail about the background of the meeting. At the meeting, Will Simpson of ORCID presented a very useful non-technical overview of how authentication … Continue reading “Revoking ORCID Tokens”

Delegating ORCID tokens – background

Posted on behalf of Neil Jeffries, University of Oxford At the last Cultivating ORCIDs Meeting in Birmingham in June 2017, Neil Jefferies ran a working group looking at different approaches to implementing ORCID IDs. One of the outcomes was a common issue when it came to ORCID implementations and third party suppliers, namely, that institutional … Continue reading “Delegating ORCID tokens – background”

What questions can ORCID answer for my institution?

At the June 2017 Jisc UK ORCID Support workshop a breakout session was held on: What questions can ORCID answer for my institution? Exploring the API and common queries. The session was led by Matthew Buys, ORCID and Owen Stephens, Jisc UK ORCID Support. At the end of the session Matthew invited further questions from … Continue reading “What questions can ORCID answer for my institution?”

Cultivating ORCID: Encouraging Growth

Report on the Jisc UK ORCID Consortium Members’ Event, June 2017. This event was part of a series of members’ events organised by the Jisc support team for the UK ORCID Consortium. The aim of the event was to bring the UK ORCID community together for peer-to-peer networking and support and to help progress key … Continue reading “Cultivating ORCID: Encouraging Growth”

UK ORCID Community Forum

Nicky Ferguson writes: At our workshop event a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the Jisc UK ORCID Community Forum. This is an invited group of volunteers, representing a variety of UK institutions, backgrounds and systems software users, who since January have been keeping a keen eye on our activities and progress, giving us the … Continue reading “UK ORCID Community Forum”

UK ORCID Consortium members share their views

Feedback from the Jisc UK ORCID Consortium Members Survey 2017 A survey was undertaken of UK ORCID Consortium member institutions from 14th March to 5th April 2017. The intention was to assess the progress of members in adopting and integrating ORCID iDs and to gain feedback on the Jisc UK ORCID consortium support service. All … Continue reading “UK ORCID Consortium members share their views”

European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption

The recent European Commission report on next generation metrics (full report only available as a pdf) recommends that the EC adopt ORCID for grant applications, management and reporting platforms. RECOMMENDATION #8 states that: “The European research system and Open Science Cloud should adopt ORCID as its preferred system of unique identifiers, and an ORCID iD … Continue reading “European Commission report recommends ORCID adoption”

Jisc UK ORCID Support – anniversary briefing

From Nicky Ferguson, project manager. The first formal meeting for the UK ORCID support project happened on March 1st 2016.  So I thought it would be good to make a very informal list of things we have discovered, things which seem to be important to our community and things we need to be doing from … Continue reading “Jisc UK ORCID Support – anniversary briefing”