Technical

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”

Members setting up vendor systems with the ORCID API

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”

Reporting on the UK ORCID API/Use Case and Hack Day Workshops

Introduction Jisc is providing technical and community support to ORCID UK consortium members; as part of this service, Jisc is running workshops with the community to explore the requirements and opportunities for working with data accessed through the ORCID API. Overview of Workshops Use Case Development and API Workshop – 30th September 2016, Birmingham Aimed … Continue reading “Reporting on the UK ORCID API/Use Case and Hack Day Workshops”