[openbiblio-dev] ORCID Releases Mock API Web Application

Fri Nov 11 18:51:05 UTC 2011

Yes, I should be able to help with that, Jim.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

>
> This is a development we should be tracking closely.  Anyone willing to
> help test the API and
> study the code to prepare for leveraging  ORCID capabilities for
> openbiblio purposes?
> I have several million, more or less open, name authority records in
> mathematics and related fields
> (cs, statistics, economics) which I would like to match into ORCID and
> other name authority sources
> (LOC, VIAF, Microsoft, AuthorClaim, ScienceCard, Google, Freebase,
> Wikipedia, ....) as soon as feasible to establish open access
> to bulk name authority data as part of the BibSoup effort.
>
> Thad, I hope you may be able to assist with some of the large scale
> aspects of this by
> supporting a Google Refine installation which would hook into these
> sources.
>
>
> --Jim
>
>
>
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> >From Brian.Wilson at thomsonreuters.com  Fri Nov 11 08:22:23 2011
> >To: ORCID TWG Members and Supporters
> >Subject: ORCID Releases Mock API Web Application
>
> Dear ORCID TWG Members and Supporters,
>
> We are extremely happy to announce that the ORCID development team has
> made the first ORCID code release.
>
> The ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application is ready for people to download and
> run.   The Github repository for it is open to anybody as of now.
>
> This deployable WAR file provides a full implementation of the "ORCID
> Phase 1 Query API" (http://goo.gl/ctWlR) which third parties can use in
> order to start writing clients that require read-only access to the ORCID
> system. The system includes the ability to query for a researcher's
> "protected" profile elements though authentication via OAuth2. The big
> restriction is that, at the moment, this system is not tied to the real
> back-end database and will only deliver the included hard-coded, fake,
> ORCID profile.
>
> The development team has confirmed that it is easy to deploy this WAR in a
> standard servlet container (e.g.  Apache Tomcat 7) and that it works with
> existing third party OAuth client libraries.  ORCID will soon be
> (separately) releasing some of the code that he developed in Ruby to serve
> as further examples.
>
> The WAR is available on Github at:
> https://github.com/ORCID
>
> Please report any issues you encounter with the system here:
> https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application/issues
>
> General development questions, etc. can be directed to:
> devsupport at orcid.org<mailto:devsupport at orcid.org>
>
> The next release of the Mock API WAR will include the ability to
> deposit/update profiles to the system.
>
> We'd like to thank everyone from the ORCID technical community for their
> thoughtful contributions to the API specification development, and more
> generally, for working collaboratively over the past two years to bring an
> important idea to fruition.  I'll quote Geoff Bilder when noting that our
> work has contributed to something that, "promises to become foundational
> scholarly cyberinfrastructure".  In addition, we should thank Mummi
> Thorisson and the Semantico team for beginning to deliver on our shared
> vision.  Most importantly, we owe a debt of gratitude to Geoff Bilder who
> possesses the vision... and stamina... to drive such a broad group of
> interests to such a promising execution phase.
>
> Please feel free to forward this email to other interested parties.  There
> have been some changes to our membership that I've tried to adjust in our
> email list, but if I've left anyone out, or there are others who would like
> to be included on future mailings, please have them contact me.
>
> Kind regards,
> [cid:image001.jpg at 01CCA063.16AFD3D0]
> Chair, ORCID Technical Working Group
>
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-Thad
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