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Hi Tomasz,

I believe that the ORCID Support Advance plugin makes the ORCID column for creators/editors read-only, as this is required by ORCID, so you don't get inconsistent data with the same creator/editor with different ORCIDs.  Beyond making the ORCID field read-only the creators/editors field will behave the same as with just ORCID Support.  This provides the /cgi/users/lookup/name script [1], which incorporates the ORCID in the autocomplete with the name and ID (typically email) fields.  This works by looking up previous entries for creators/editors.  I assume this is the point you are trying to make, which is that before your installed ORCID Support no creators/editors would have ORCIDs so it is likely this lookup script will find the name, maybe ID (email) but probably not an ORCID, so this is pretty useless, unless you can backfill the existing creators/editors. 

An alternative solution to the /cgi/users/lookup/name script would be to have a lookup script that gets the name, ID (email) and ORCID from the EPrints user table.  This will get populated with the ORCID when the user connects their EPrints account with ORCID, although their name maybe be formatted differently to how it appears in the creators/editors field, (typically user field has full given name whereas creators/editors may use initials).  It may be worth submitting a GitHub issue requesting such a script is written.  The disadvantage of such a script is that you would need to have a decent of number of users in your repository to make this useful.  Even if you have all institutional users added to your repository, you will have to manually add external creators/editors names in full.  This could lead to inconsistency and would be annoying for someone having to manually add a regular collaborator, when before they could make use of auto-complete.

One thing I have written to improve ORCID Support is a cron job that can run periodically (I run overnight) that looks up any EPrints user that has a valid ORCID set.  It then looks up all eprint records that have a creator/editor where the email address (or whatever field) of the user matches the creators/editors ID.  It will then set the ORCID sub-field for that creator/editor to that or the user record, if it does not yet have a value set.  This script is quite useful when you have ORCID Support Advance, as it will makes sure a user who has connected their EPrints user account to ORCID that day will get all their eprints updated with ORCIDs that night.  This is something you would want to do asynchronously, as you could have hundreds of eprints that need updating.  I have not yet provided this script, (probably best added to ORCID Support), as if it does not work properly it could do quite a bit of damage.  However, I have been running it on several repositories for a while now, so I am fairly confident it is sound.  When I have a chance I will try submitting this as a pull request to the eprintsug/orcid_support GitHub repository.

Regards

David Newman

[1] https://github.com/eprintsug/orcid_support/blob/master/cgi/users/lookup/name

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Hi everyone,

 

I recently upgraded our ORCID integration to the Orcid Support Advance plugin.

It’s working, but I have a question about how the ORCID actually makes its way to the Creator field?

Let’s say someone gives our repository permissions, will their ORCID “automatically” appear in the Creator field when they add their name as an author?  How does the plugin know to do that, a matching email address in the “User” fields?

 

Tomasz

 

 

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