At the end of February 2019, the UK ORCID consortium looks set to reach 100 member institutions. Since the launch in 2015, our members have been involved in creating a community of ORCID implementors. As a community, we consider strategies to tackle challenges that span policy, advocacy and technical infrastructure. We work together towards solutions … Continue reading “Tools for our members – who has an ORCID ID?”
How ORCID UK Consortium members manage the information about their ORCID contacts within their institution is changing. ORCID have mandated that all Consortium Consortia must start using their Self Service contacts management system by the end of this calendar year. The Jisc UK consortium is in the process of making this switch. After the switch, … Continue reading “Preparing for ORCID Self Service – actions and webinar”
What is the ORCID Sandbox? The ORCID Sandbox is a service provided by ORCID for testing purposes; the site mimics the Production ORCID Registry in function, providing both a public and member API to the Sandbox registry, and a user interface to manage Sandbox records. The Sandbox Member API allows organizations to test Member API … Continue reading “The ORCID Sandbox”
This blog post is derived from notes and analysis by Owen Stephens, consultant. Thanks are due to Owen for his contributions to the hackday planning, running and reporting. The Jisc UK ORCID hackday took place in Jisc’s London offices on 24th April 2018. It was a gathering of developers and practitioners who came together to: … Continue reading “Jisc UK ORCID Hackday April 2018: summary”
A plugin for the eprints.org repository software has been released to take advantage of the ORCID member API. The plugin, which has been developed in a collaboration between Jisc and eprints.org services, with input from the eprints.org community, brings new functionality to take full advantage of ORCID membership and offer improved services to repository users … Continue reading “eprints.org ORCID Advance Support plug-in released”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Many of the UK consortium member institutions use vendor systems that are ORCID-enabled. This means that the institution simply needs to obtain institution-specific credentials from ORCID for the member API which can then be set up in the vendor system. This blog post provides a convenient walk-through of the ORCID pages and information that are … Continue reading “Members setting up vendor systems with the ORCID API”
