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A DSpace Researcher Profile is a special Person Entity (item) that is linked with exactly one EPerson (DSpace account). This linked EPerson owns the profile (Person Item), including having WRITE permission on it. The link between the Person Item and the EPerson is managed in the Person's dspace.object.owner metadata field. This field is configured to hold authority values and will contain the uuid UUID of the EPerson that owns the profile.

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• Profiles require Configurable Entities to be enabled, as every Researcher Profile is represented by a Person Entity.
• Profiles A profile can be linked to only one EPerson (user account). That EPerson has full rights to manage the profile, including whether the profile is publicly visible or private.
• Optionally, Profiles can be synchronized (or initially created) via ORCID Integration.

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# Configuration settings required for Researcher Profiles
# These settings ensure "dspace.object.owner" field are indexed by Authority Control
choices.plugin.dspace.object.owner = EPersonAuthority
choices.presentation.dspace.object.owner = suggest
authority.controlled.dspace.object.owner = true

Last, you need to ensure that at least one Collection is configured to accept Person entities.  Only EPersons having the submission right in such a Collection will be able to create profiles.  There are many possibilities for using these settings to control who may or may not create a profile.

Advanced configuration

You can configure some aspects of the Profile feature in the config/modules/researcher-profile.cfg 

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