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Title (Goal)Integrations - Support external authorities (ORCID) in Authority Cache
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The basic dspace metadata shouldn’t be polluted with subfields. In order to keep the relation with external authority data such as ORCID, DSpace should have a separate infrastructure to keep a local copy of externally sourced authority information. Technically, the standard Authority key field on dspace metadata fields are used to tie together the metadata fields and the entries in the "authority cache".

There is a need to manipulate these authority records as well. Therefore the authority cache needs robust features for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) on these authority records.

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