Hi Mark Thanks for the reply.
Now I am bamboozled. The directive to apply ORCID came from our Vice-Rector Research. He would like to have reports extracted from our repository about campus researcher output. He would also like the same campus researchers to submit primarily to the repository any current research works. Now what role does a campus researcher (author/advisor) in this case have on DSpace, which I am sure is a common case with most academic research repositories? user, Eperson or ORCID? It seems we created more ambiguity/complexity with ORCID, rather than simplifying and removing author ambiguity. Regards hg *Hilton Gibson* Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator Stellenbosch University Library http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html On 17 June 2015 at 15:45, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:30:33PM +0200, Hilton Gibson wrote: > > On 17 June 2015 at 15:19, helix84 <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote: > > > > > Like I said, users and authors are currently completely unrelated. > > > > Hmmmm very interesting!!! > > It is not apparent from the documentation. > > So what happens when a "user" and an ORCID record are the same?? > > Surely a "user" can have an ORCID?? > > A user can have an ORCID, but currently an EPerson can't. I think we > need to separate authentication and "personhood" somehow. > > o We could create Contributor and User as subclasses of EPerson, and > move the credentials from EPerson to User. > > o We could simply have some EPersons with credentials and some > without, some with external identifiers and some without. This > probably works better, since some "users" will also be > "contributors" (authors, editors, etc.) > > > Most of our "users" are researchers who will have ORCID's in the near > > future. > > What then? > > > > This needs to be very clearly indicated in the documentation, the > > separation of concerns. > > It is has been generally accepted that ORCID will solve the author > > ambiguity problem. > > But how does this happen with ORCID in DSpace when the "users" are > > researchers with ORCID? > > I know of no firm plans to make that happen, so now is the time to be > laying them and working out how to implement them. I think that > first-class representation of contributors, especially with global > identifiers, is an important evolution of DSpace. > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > >
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