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A comment I placed on What is that beautiful house? by James Stewart on 03/10/2011 In my defence, I find it hard to write well in comment boxes and I admit my tone here has come out harsh! After reading your points about the ‘cost’ of development, I would like to illustrate a number of […]
September 29, 2011
The API draft is now available for public viewing and covers: Levels of privacy and other contextual terminology. Public query API by way of illustrative HTTP query dialogues. Protected Data query via OAuth. OAuth Workflow is illustrated in some depth This is a pre-release of the API; it is nearly there, but it would be foolish […]
September 22, 2011
Videos of the Presentations The Videos of all the talks and Q&A sessions are now available here Program 10:00 Welcome and what’s new – Howard Ratner, ORCID Chair (Slides [PPTX 2.55Mb]) Talk discussed: Key quote “ORCID will work to support the creation of a permanent, clear and unambiguous record of scholarly communication by enabling reliable attribution […]
September 22, 2011
ORCID in a nutshell (current strategy): ORCID is a registry of profiles for people involved in research – a profile can be created by the person themselves (self-registry) or by what is termed a Trusted Partner, such as a University or Publisher. The people using the system decide who is and is not a researcher, […]
September 13, 2011
As the official draft API (googledoc) is both in flux and read-protected so that only those invited can see it, I am unable to give you a complete view of how things are shaping up. However, I can relay a number of key points that everyone involved is concerned about: It must have sensible (some […]
September 13, 2011
The following is from an email exchange with Nicky Ferguson. These are my answers to the questions he posed, and as such shouldn’t be considered the opinion of the ORCID project itself. They are the answers I believe are correct, based on the meetings and discussions I have been part of on the technical advisory group. […]
August 29, 2011
And I am okay with that. He is simply the most brilliant researcher and the clearest, most entertaining educator I can think of. He had a huge effect on me as I grew up, and I would say I can only underestimate the impact he had on me. If you didn’t know of him before, […]
August 28, 2011
“WHEN I WAS A NIPPER, HAVING A MOUSE IN THE COMPUTER ROOM MEANT IT WAS TIME TO CALL IN PEST-CONTROL….” For many months, if not years, I have felt like an old codger. Yes, form-filling fills me with dread becuase the tick I place for my age-range has moved down more notches than I am […]
July 18, 2011
A quick update: ORCID service: Geoff Bilder (Crossref) is leading the developmental work on the ORCID system The first instance of this system will be based on the code produced for the Thomson-Reuters ResearcherID system which has the following characteristics: Java 1.6 (current version is 1.6.021) iBatis 2.3.0.677 (current version is 3.0.2) Struts2 Tomcat 5.5.x […]
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October 3, 2011
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