The document discusses changes in the ORCID API from version 1.2 to version 2.0. Some key points discussed include:
- Version 2.0 allows reading and writing data in smaller sections or individual items rather than large chunks, improving performance.
- Permissions are simplified with just 4 scopes in version 2.0 compared to many overlapping scopes in version 1.2.
- Version 2.0 returns activity summaries with basic details rather than full representations of each activity, reducing payload size.
- Version 2.0 introduces display indexes and ordering to control item ordering, unlike version 1.2 which had no defined ordering.