ORCID Integration

Introduction

DSpace-CRIS provides the most advanced and complete integration between a CRIS / Repository system and ORCID achieving most of the ORCID integration use cases.

The available functionalities depend on the kind of API Key that you have, Public or Member. You must configure your client-id, client secret and specify the endpoint appropriate for your API level in the 

[dspace-installDir]/config/modules/authentication-oauth.cfg (via build.properties)

# The client id value <client-id> from ORCID client application registration
application-client-id=${authentication-oauth.application-client-id}
# The client secret value <client-secret> from ORCID client application registration
application-client-secret=${authentication-oauth.application-client-secret}
 
# Public API:   	  http://pub.orcid.org/
# Public API Sandbox: http://pub.sandbox.orcid.org/
# Member API:   	  https://api.orcid.org/
# Member API Sandbox: http://api.sandbox.orcid.org/
orcid-api-url=${authentication-oauth.orcid-api-url}
 
# Th Redirect URL should be constructed off your dspace url in the following manner:
# http://dspace.my/jspui/oauth-login
# or if deployed as ROOT application
# http://dspace.my/oauth-login
application-redirect-uri=${authentication-oauth.application-client-redirect}
 
# Developers Sandbox 	http://sandbox.orcid.org/oauth/authorize
# Production Registry 	http://orcid.org/oauth/authorize
application-authorize-url=${authentication-oauth.application-authorize-url}


# PUBLIC API
authentication-oauth.application-client-scope =/authenticate
# MEMBER API
#authentication-oauth.application-client-scope =/authenticate /orcid-profile/read-limited /orcid-bio/update /orcid-works/create /orcid-works/update /funding/create /funding/update /activities/update

Authentication

The ORCID authentication is enabled by default in DSpace-CRIS, nevertheless you need to configure the key properties listed in the above introduction.

The following properties are specific of the authentication integration

autoregister=true
choice-page=false
orcid-embedded-login=true

the autoregister flag is auto-explaining, choice-page if true list the ORCID authentication explicitly as an authentication methods so that if you have multiple authentication methods configured such as LDAP, Shibboleth, etc. ORCID is listed in the choice page. The orcid-embedded-login is the preferred mode, a Login with ORCID button is displayed side-by-side the password or ldap authentication.

Profile claiming

When the ORCID Authentication is enabled and the autoregister flag is true it is possible for a researcher to claim an existent researcher profile that have an ORICD in DSpace-CRIS just logging in. Indeed, when the user login the system will create an user account using the information from ORCID and if his ORCID match one already assigned to an orphan researcher profile this new account become the owner of the profile. In such way, external collaborators can login in the system and gains limited privileges to improve their profile without any explicit activity by the repository staff.

Creation of a local researcher profile

When the user is logged in via ORCID and proceed to create his local researcher profile the system automatically captures from ORCID several information:

Submission lookup

A special authority is build-in DSpace-CRIS to use the ORCID registry togheter with the internal directory of researchers as authority list for metadata editing

More information on the authority framework can be found in the official DSpace documentation, the relevant configuration are in the dspace.cfg file as listed below

plugin.named.org.dspace.content.authority.ChoiceAuthority = \
 org.dspace.app.cris.integration.ORCIDAuthority = RPAuthority,\
 ...
 
choices.plugin.dc.contributor.author = RPAuthority
choices.presentation.dc.contributor.author = lookup
authority.controlled.dc.contributor.author = true
...

The org.dspace.app.cris.integration.ORCIDAuthority combines the result retrieved from the internal researchers database with the ones found in ORCID giving precedence to the internal matches. When an author name is selected from the ORCID registry returned list a temporary authority key tracking the ORCID is assigned to the metadata. This information is used when the publication is approved to generate a local researcher profile retrieving further information about the researcher from the ORCID registry such as his biography, email address, name variants, etc more information on this process are available here

Synchronization

DSpace-CRIS is able to capture (Public or Member API) and send information (Member API only) from and to ORCID.

from ORCID to DSpace-CRIS

The dataflow from ORCID to DSpace-CRIS happen in two scenarios:

1. when an user that has been authenticated via ORCID create his researcher profile
2. when an author of a publication is looked up in the ORCID registry during the submission

The scenario #1 has been discussed in the Authentication > Creating a local researcher profile section

The scenario #2 has been discussed in the Submission lookup section.

from DSpace-CRIS to ORCID

If the researcher grants permission to DSpace-CRIS to update his ORCID profile, this is done during the authentication via ORCID or directly from the ORCID tab in the researcher profile, DSpace-CRIS is able to send these local information to ORCID:

the researcher can set his own preferences about the synchronization both about which information needs to be send than how/when this happen.

To configure which information are sent to ORCID the researcher needs to edit his profile, in the default configuration a tab named ORCID (shortname:"orcid") with a box named ORCID Synchronization settings (shortname:"orcidsyncsettings") is included that allow to 

• define which publications to send: all, only publications selected (see ), none
• define which projecs to send: all, only projects selected (see ), none
• define which biographic information to send:

The synchronization can happen automatically via a batch script that need to be configured as a CRON Job

or triggered manually by the researcher. A custom box ORCID Registry Queue ("orcidsyncqueue") is included in the default configuration to show the queue of object to synchronize and allow manual processing.

Mapping local properties to ORCID

ORCID as a local profile URL

Each property containing unique values can be used to address an researcher profile in DSpace-CRIS with a more meaningful URL than using the internal stable CRIS ID. This functionality is very useful in conjuction with ORCID so that

[dspace.url]/cris/rp/details.html?lt=orcid&lv=[ORCiD ID]