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ORCID API Perks & Pitfalls
- 1. DEVELOPERSDIVULGE… ORCIDAPIPerks+Pitfalls
- 2. Wasitbuiltbyrobots? THEORCIDAPI... ...ordroppedbyaliens?
- 3. No,it’smadebypeople! ...peoplewhoknowitsdarkestsecrets JEFF Angel
- 4. Whatisthisabout? Opportunitytogaininsightsintohowthe ORCIDteamthinks. Nothinginthisisofficial. Shouldbefun!Goodhumordebatesare welcome,butdon’tbeabully.
- 5. PITFALL Citationmetadatainmetadata! Perhapsweshouldgetridofcitation metadatainsidemetadata? P.S.thisisreal-----------------> (anditcanbeanything!?!?!?!)
- 6. SPEAKINGOFCITATIONS……. BibTeX! NoUTF8,helloit’sthe21stcentury Toomanydifferentbibteximplementations LaTexparsersareanislandoftheirown.
- 7. PITFALL Uselesscoauthors! Perhapsweshouldgetridof contributormetadatainworks? Itgoeson,andon,andon.718 coauthornamesinthisexample-->
- 8. PITFALL Hyper-authors Currenttop47,921works…. 14Authorswithmorethan2000works
- 9. PERK V2.0+Summaries HasLastmodifiedtimestampsforItems Hierarchicaltimestamps Containstheidentifiers
- 10. PITFALL Batch-createorcidrecords Unclaimedrecords Hardtocorrecterrors Userconfusion
- 11. PERK Create-on-demand Easierthanbatchcreate - mailmerge emailw/custom urlforeachuserpre-fills theregistration form!
- 12. PITFALL GettingauthenticatediDsintosystemsthat Don’tinteractw/authors (repositories,authorityfiles…)
- 13. PERK Sorry.ResearchercontrolisacoreORCID principle...butthereareMultiplewaystoget authenticatediDs! (free!)Publicapi(canyousendanemail?) (new)Institutionalsign-in:RequestiDwhen userssignintoORCIDviayoursystem
- 14. PERK Easytounderstanderrormessages +suggestederrorstoshow users <developer-message>... Invalid content was found starting with element 'common:external-id-relationship'. One of '{"http://www.orcid.org/ns/common":external-id-value}' is expected.]</developer-message> <user-message>ORCID could not process the data, because they were invalid.</user-message> <error-code>9001</error-code>
- 15. PITFALL Unexpectederrorshaveunhelpfulmessages <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/8.0.21 - Error report</title><style type="text/css">H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans- serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font- family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font- size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background- color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans- serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans- serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans- serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}.line {height: 1px; background-color: #525D76; border: none;}</style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 403 - Access Denied</h1><div class="line"></div><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>Access Denied</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>Access to the specified resource has been forbidden.</u></p><hr class="line"><h3>Apache Tomcat/8.0.21</h3></body></html>
- 16. PITFALL Gettingusefulerrorstousers(andletting themknowwhotocontactforHelp) ↑Misconfiguredcodeexchange Tryingtosendbadmetadata ↓
- 17. PITFALL PollingthepublicAPI Makesourserverstired Toofast/toomuchdata= wethinkyou’readosattack
- 18. perk Wehaveotherwaystogetrecordupdates! Webhooks SearchAPI(searchbylastmodifieddate) on-demandpublicdatadump (comingsoon!)
- 19. PITFALL PublicDatadump Usesalotofresources Upsetourpublicapiservers Wrongarchitecture wrongformat /xml->+2.5Mfiles /json->+2.5 Mfiles
- 20. perk* On-demanddatadump Realtime Abilitytosync Shardingstructure SyncJSON,XMLorboth Support1.2and2.0(Latest RC) *comingsoon
- 21. perk Bulkcreateforworks! Allowmemberstocreateupto100worksper request valid/non-dupworksareadded Invalid/dupworksbecomeserrorelements
- 22. PITFALL It’sreallyhardtoaddnewworkidtypes They’rehardcoded! Peopleworkwithothers,butnobodymodelsit Project&GrantIDsarecrappytoo! Whatifmineisn’t inthislist?!
- 23. PERK We’vefixedexternalIDtypesinv2.0 API andwillenablecommunitycontributions tothevocab ProjectTHORisworkingonIDcollections includingprojectIDsandgrantIDs!
- 24. PERK StableandReleaseCandidate versions Enterprisesystemsonlyhavetoupdate~1year Fastmovingclientscankeepupwiththelatest andgreatest
- 25. PITFALL Allofthiscanbehardtounderstand ManypartstotheORCIDRecordandAPI Organizationsfromdifferentsectorswith differentgoalshavetousethesameAPI
- 26. PERK It’salloutthere We’reopensource-youcancontribute LotsofDocumentation Technical detailsonGitHub Workflows,tutorial,andmoreatmembers.orcid.org
- 27. PERK Thereishelp APIUserGroup Personalresponsesatsupport@orcid.org Fixbugsindays,criticalbugswithinhours UserFeedbackleadstonewfeatures
- 28. RobertPetersr.peters@orcid.org WillSimpsonw.simpson@orcid.org LizKrznariche.krznarich@orcid.org AngelMontenegroangel.montenegro@ost.orcid.org CatalinaWilmersc.wilmers@orcid.org TomDemeranville t.demeranville@orcid-eu.org Jeersorcheers?
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