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[EP-tech] Re: EPrints questions

On 22/02/13 13:10, Andras Holl wrote:

- Do You plan using ORCID identifiers for authors? Like a plus field
(Family Name; Given Name / Initials; Email; ORCID) ?
Adding a field to the creators field is very simple*, and it will automagically appear in the interface..... but do you plan to DO anything with it, or just accept the string that people fill in? 

[*] Edit cfg/cfg.d/eprint_fields.pl and add

   { name=>orcid,
     type=>text
   },
to the definition of the creator (and editor/any other person-identification set you want, then rebuild the database with 

   epadmin update_database_structure *repository_id*

.... and restart the server
(that's EP 3.2 - in EPrints 3.3 its epadmin update *repository_id*
--

Ian Stuart.
Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
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