ORCID WHAT’S NEW IN TECH 2016Summary

October 2016 Outreach Meeting is Research without Borders | OCT 5, 2016

Robert PetersDirector Technology

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OPEN FONT

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NEW● Open license ($0/yr)● Supports all Unicode

Scripts● End of outside

developer frustration - priceless!

● Proprietary (~$400/yr)

● Doesn’t support all languages

SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN• Facebook: 7,230 user connections • Google: 6,515 user connections• Institutional: 6,502 user connections• 472 different Institution gateways! (and growing)

• Only 4 Scopes

• Multiple, clean XSDs

• Item based

V2 API: SCALABILITY Simpler API Interactions

V2 API: ADDED CLARITY

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TEAM GROWTH

QA manual testing & Dedicated tier 1 support

QA & Server Automation Engineer

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JEFF

Senior Java Engineer - Starts October 24th!

NEW TOOLING FOR TRANSLATIONS•Internal tracking of out of sync translations •Crowdsourcing translations

BUT...2016 ISN’T OVER YET!•Member + consortia directory

INSTITUTIONAL SIGN-IN CROSS-LINK

ON DEMAND PUBLIC DUMP

•Real time•Ability to sync•Sharding structure (i.e. 10 folders)• Supports 1.2 and 2.0 (Latest RC)• Sync JSON, XML or both

MEMBER-REQUESTED EXTERNAL ID TYPESThere are loads of different identifiers out thereDifferent communities require different identifiersIt’s hard for us to know which our members require

The solution? Let members request new types!

REFACTORING FOR GROWTH

Questions?support@orcid.orgr.peters@orcid.org http://members.orcid.org https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/orcid-api-users

Thanks from Robert Peters and the tech team!

Robert PetersDirector Technology

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