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ORCID WHAT’S NEW IN TECH 2016
Summary
October 2016 Outreach Meeting is Research without Borders | OCT 5, 2016
Robert Peters
Director Technology
orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-9460
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OPEN FONT
CURRENT
NEW
● Open license ($0/yr)
● Supports all Unicode
Scripts
● End of outside developer
frustration - priceless!
● Proprietary (~$400/yr)
● Doesn’t support all
languages

3.
SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN
• Facebook: 7,230 user
connections
• Google: 6,515 user connections
• Institutional: 6,502 user
connections
• 472 different Institution
gateways! (and growing)

4.
• Only 4 Scopes
• Multiple, clean XSDs
• Item based
V2 API: SCALABILITY
Simpler API Interactions

5.
V2 API: ADDED CLARITY
Display index
Last modified
Activities Summary

6.
PERSON V2 UI: MORE DETAILS
Ordering
Source
Last modified
Privacy

7.
TEAM GROWTH
QA manual testing &
Dedicated tier 1 support
QA & Server Automation
Engineer
Senior Java Engineer -
Starts October 24th!

8.
NEW TOOLING FOR TRANSLATIONS
•Internal tracking of out of sync translations
•Crowdsourcing translations

9.
BUT...2016 ISN’T OVER YET!
•Member + consortia directory

10.
INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN CROSS-LINK

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ON DEMAND PUBLIC DUMP
•Real time
•Ability to sync
•Sharding structure (i.e. 10 folders)
• Supports 1.2 and 2.0
(Latest RC)
• Sync JSON, XML or both

12.
MEMBER-REQUESTED EXTERNAL ID TYPES
There are loads of different
identifiers out there
Different communities require
different identifiers
It’s hard for us to know which
our members require
The solution? Let members
request new types!

13.
REFACTORING FOR GROWTH

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Questions?
support@orcid.org
r.peters@orcid.org
http://members.orcid.org
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orcid-api-users
Thanks from Robert Peters and the
tech team!
Robert Peters
Director Technology
orcid.org / 0000-0002-0036-9460