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The May 17 Outreach Meeting is less than two weeks away and we look forward to talk to many of you in person or via WebEx. Today we have updated the program available here, with several presentations by ORCID Board members and staff in the morning, followed by three sessions focussing on funding organizations, research institutions, publishers, and a keynote. It is not too late to register for in-person or WebEx attendance, please use this link.
The ORCID API documents have been updated to include details of the search API. The ORCID search API is based on SOLR, and will support all query syntaxes available in SOLR 3.6, including the following.
- Lucene with SOLR extensions
- DisMax
- Extended DisMax
Details of the API can be found in the Query API documentation here: http://goo.gl/OWMju. The implementation of the Search API will be released in the upcoming 1.0 release of the ORCID binary.
Please join us for the next in-person ORCID Outreach Meeting on Thursday, May 17, 9.30 AM - 4.30 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The meeting is sponsored by Microsoft Research. All participant organizations and organizations interested in joining ORCID are welcome to attend in-person or virtually via WebEx.
The meeting will give an ORCID initiative update in the morning. After lunch we will have three panels on integration plans and status, and a keynote presentation. There will also be an afternoon breakout session specifically for developers interested in using the ORCID API. The program will be finalized by the end of the month. For more information and registration please click ...
ORCID has appointed Laurel L. Haak PhD, as its Executive Director, it was announced today. Haak joins the not-for-profit organization effective April 9 and will be based in Bethesda, Maryland. She joins the ORCID initiative at a crucial stage in terms of the development of its infrastructure and business model. In April, ORCID will complete the initial phase of its development, with most functionality required for the launch of a beta service later this year now in place. In 2011, ORCID obtained initial funding including loans and sponsorships from a diverse group of stakeholders to help cover the operational and development expenses while ORCID launches in 2012 and strives to become self-sustaining. "We thank all those...
Version 1.0.4 of the ORCID Mock API was released today and can be downloaded at https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application. The only change in 1.0.4 is that it has been updated so that access tokens and new profiles are persisted across server restarts. This will make it slightly easier to experiment with the API. The release notes are at https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application/blob/master/changelog.txt. This is the final version of the mock API, future API releases will use the real ORCID code base.
The ORCID...
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...
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