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Version 1.0.3 of the ORCID Mock API was released today and can be downloaded at https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application. The biggest change is that the mime-types were changed to application/orcid+xml and application/orcid+json, the full list of changes can be found here.
The ORCID Mock API aims to provide an environment where developers can start to integrate ORCID into their systems before a release of the production environment. Like the production version, the mock supports tier 1 and tier 2 access. Tier 2 is protected using OAuth...
Today ORCID participant The Association of Lithuanian Serials hosted a conference on unique author identifiers in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference took place in the Lithuanian parliament (seimas) and was perfectly organized by our host Eleonora Dagienė. Three members of ORCID working groups presented at the conference, and their presentation files are now available in our presentations folder.
Mike Taylor from Elsevier gave a nice introduction of why unique...
The next Outreach Meeting will take place May 17 at Microsoft Research (Cambridge, MA) and we have just opened the registration page at http://orcid.org/civicrm/event/info?id=4&reset=1. Registration is free and you can register for in-person or virtual attendence via WebEx. We are still working on the program, but you can look forward to an interesting event that will give a progress report of the ORCID initiative. More information about this and other Outreach Meetings (includind slides from past meetings) can be found at http://orcid.org/meetings.
ORCID seeks a full-‐time Technical Director to lead all technology development and operations for ORCID, Inc. and is responsible for guiding its vision, design and implementation.
The Technical Director leads all technology development and operations for ORCID, Inc. and is responsible for guiding its vision, design and implementation. In addition, the Technical Director will act as an evangelist and focal point for community technical input by establishing strong relationships with ORCID stakeholders, including the open source community. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of the electronic scholarly communications environment as well as significant experience with electronic metadata and content...
Version 1.0.2 of the ORCID Mock API is ready for download from Github. This version of the Mock API supports both the query and deposit/update APIs as documented here:
Again, the MOCK API is not tied to a real database backend yet and only serves static, sample responses. Still, this should be enough for third parties to do the vast majority of integration development that they need to do before the launch of the ORCID system later this year. The Github...
At the beginning of 2012 ORCID has reached another important milestone: 300 organizations have joined ORCID as participants. The 300th participant is Solapur University from India. We want to thank all organizations who have made ORCID possible, and we look forward to an exciting 2012. As always, all new participants are listed here. Academic institutions continue to form the largest group of ORCID participants with 41%, and most participants are from Europe (38%) or North America (37%).
There are many different ways to learn more about ORCID, and the website is...
We have started a new ORCID News mailing list for redistributing the content posted on this blog. The mailing list is set up as Google Group and you can sign up at http://groups.google.com/group/orcid-news/subscribe. Other altenatives are the RSS feed of this blog at http://www.orcid.org/content/feed/rss.xml, or follow the @orcid_org Twitter account.
The Technical Working Group has released two important documents.
ORCID Deposit/Update API Phase 1 Specification
The Deposit/Update API extends the Query API. With the exception of batch creation of new profiles, the API calls are designed for semi-automated, researcher supervised updates and additions to the profile. The specification is available here.
Structure of the ORCID Identifier Specification
This specification describes the format for the ORCID identifier, and the reasoning behind it. The specification is available...
The next ORCID Outreach Meeting will take place May 17, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event is kindly hosted by Microsoft Research. For now please mark your calendars, the registration will open in January.
ORCID seeks a full-time Executive Director to grow, develop, and lead the organization. As a new, international, not-for-profit, organization incorporated in the United States, ORCID’s mission is to transform the research ecosystem by delivering the technical infrastructure and service to enable persistent, and unique researcher ids to be generated and managed to the benefit of all stakeholders in scholarly research and the research ecosystem.
The Executive Director is the chief executive officer responsible for the organization’s consistent and timely achievement of its mission within its budget.The successful candidate will have the proven ability to build strategic relationships, work with a broad range of...
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