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Re: [EP-tech] ORCID Support Advance Update

These are very good points, John. I asked about this a while ago after
an ORCID webinar at JISC, and there were no answers.

The whole idea of "author-authenticated entry of ORCID iDs" seems rather
misguided - like a short-sighted "overkill" technical solution to what
is an organizational and data quality control problem. Just because you
can do certain things using OAuth doesn't mean it's a good idea.

In our repository much data entry is done by editorial staff, not by the
authors themselves. We don't want to bother our authors (and much less
external contributors) by email just to "sign off" the entry of their
ORCID iD. This reeks of bureaucracy and would undoubtedly make it LESS
appealing to integrate with ORCID. Needless to say, we won't use a
plugin which forces that sort of workflow upon us.

Add to this that authenticating just ORCID iDs alone does not really
solve the data quality problem - just like one can make a data entry
error in an ORCID iD, one can also make an error in an email or really
any part of metadata - which obviously won't be automagically verified
by ORCID or the author who confirms just that their iD is correct. In
the end, the truth content of metadata is based on human dilligence and
trust in quality control measures undertaken by the repository, not by
some central external identity management system - which also
constitutes a single point of failure from a distributed systems
management viewpoint, and is a nuisance to repository users who now have
to log in not just to the repository, but also to ORCID.

In short, verifying by automatic lookup or some such that the ORCID iD
entered is correct, is great, forcing authors to act as plugins to the
data entry system really is not.

On 08/02/2018 12:32 PM, John Salter wrote:
>> This naturally poses a problem for storing ORCIDs for external authors,
> but in my experience most repositories are happy storing ORCIDs for just
> their own users.
> 
>  
> 
> This concerns me. We (repository developers) shouldn't be encouraging a
> blinkered approach to ORCIDs (or other persistent identifiers).
> 
> You wouldn't exclude a DOI for a paper if it wasn't minted by your
> institution - so why would you choose to discard ORCIDs for non-local
> members?
> 
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> 
> If the ORCID has come from a trustworthy upstream system (e.g. CrossRef,
> PubsRouter), then the ORCID should stay with the author.
> 
> Local ORCIDs can supplement this data - so a record harvested from your
> repository is 'improved'.
> 
>  
> 
> I was reading this:
> https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/214567746-Authors-and-editors
> recently - and wondering what the 'authenticated="true"' attribute
> actually meant - and how the this assertion should be passed between
> systems.
> 
> If a **trusted** upstream system states that an ORCID is authenticated -
> can we as a consumer of that data also state that the ORCID is
> authenticated when relaying data from our system?
> 
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> 
> The ORCIDs should be seen as an 'additive' set of data - if your system
> can state that an author now has an ORCID - do it.
> 
> Just don't throw away data that already exists for non-local authors.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
>  
> 
> *From:*eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Will Fyson
> *Sent:* 02 August 2018 10:59
> *To:* eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [EP-tech] ORCID Support Advance Update
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> The ORCID Support Advance plugin does only allow ORCIDs to be stored
> against creators/editors if they can be matched to a user via the
> 'Email' column in all circumstances (to facilitate the read-only nature
> of the field). Therefore ORCIDs added through use of the ORCID Support
> plugin are affected by this too.
> 
> When we've been installing the Advance plugin on repositories we've been
> encouraging administrators to tidy up their ORCID data so that the
> ORCIDs stored are matched with user profiles. This naturally poses a
> problem for storing ORCIDs for external authors, but in my experience
> most repositories are happy storing ORCIDs for just their own users.
> 
> If an email isn't present in the creator/editor field, but an ORCID is,
> the ORCID would be removed the next time the EPrint is recommitted. The
> ORCID Support Advance plugin contains a pre-commit trigger that updates
> the ORCID field based on the email column to help keep the record up to
> date. These triggers are disabled by default when the plugin is
> installed however to prevent any accidental erasing of data by
> installing the plugin. (the fields are read-only upon installing the
> plugin however and so until the triggers are re-enabled the content of
> the creator/editor ORCID fields is essentially fixed.)
> 
> I hope this helps answer your questions!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Will 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *From:* Tomasz Neugebauer [Tomasz.Neugebauer@concordia.ca
> <mailto:Tomasz.Neugebauer@concordia.ca>] *Sent:* 01 August 2018 17:50
> *To:* Eprints-tech *Subject:* Re: [EP-tech] ORCID Support Advance Update
> 
> Hi everyone who has installed the ORCID Support Advance plugin, Will…
> 
>  
> 
> I am still looking to get a clearer picture of what I can expect to
> happen when I install the ORCID Support Advance plugin on top of the
> ORCID Support plugin that we currently have working.
> 
>  
> 
> What will happen to the ORCID ID’s that we have already collected in the
> author field of publications?
> 
>  
> 
> The description from Will below about ORCIDs from a DOI import says this:
> 
> “, the ORCID field uses the creator/editor 'Email' column to lookup user
> profiles in the repository that have connected to orcid.org so that the
> creator/editor ORCID field can be verified. As such any ORCID added via
> a DOI import, might then be erased if the user profile lookup cannot be
> made. “
> 
>  
> 
> Does the above also apply to any ORCIDs that we have been collecting
> using the ORCID Support plugin?
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t think that our depositors have been diligently filling in the
> email column in the author field during the deposit process, does that
> mean that the user profile lookup will fail and the ORCID will be
> deleted for any author that doesn’t have an email listed in the author
> column? 
> 
> When does this deletion happen, during indexing? Is there any way to
> prevent it from happening?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks so much for any insight or advice on this is really appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Tomasz
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> 
> *From:*eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> <mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> <mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> *On Behalf Of *Will Fyson
> *Sent:* July 11, 2018 10:16 AM
> *To:* eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* [EP-tech] ORCID Support Advance Update
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> A couple of minor updates have been applied to the ORCID Support Advance
> plugin, bringing it up to version 1.3.2.
> 
> The updates are only very minor, fixing issues where the plugin was
> generating a few too many messages in the indexer and error logs. A
> Change Log documenting these most recent changes is available at
> https://wiki.eprints.org/w/ORCID_Support
> 
> Regarding the discussion a couple of emails above in the EP-Tech list
> ("Import by DOI in ORCID plugin"), a new DOI imported that takes ORCIDs
> into account is not available at present. Due to the requirements that
> the ORCID field must be readonly when connected to the member API so
> that ORCIDs can only be added via an authoritative source, the ORCID
> field that is added to the creator/editor tables cannot be edited.
> Therefore to stop values from being entered, which then later cannot be
> removed, the ORCID field uses the creator/editor 'Email' column to
> lookup user profiles in the repository that have connected to orcid.org
> so that the creator/editor ORCID field can be verified. As such any
> ORCID added via a DOI import, might then be erased if the user profile
> lookup cannot be made.
> 
> This is an issue we're looking into resolving however and so hopefully
> we should have some updates on it in the future!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Will
> 
> 
> 
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