Hi Rob,
Just to follow-up on this, I have also struggled with this exact issue
when working on ORCID integration for Dissemin. I have already submitted
a ticket about this here, 3 years ago already:
https://support.orcid.org/forums/175591-orcid-ideas-forum/suggestions/8820178-author-lists-and-the-associated-orcids-are-not-pro
I have also resorted to using a bibtex parser to extract author
metadata. In my humble opinion, I think it is really sad that Bibtex
plays such a central role in ORCID. It feels wrong to see it used as a
primary storage format (using it for import and export is useful of course).
- Bibtex is very old and basically not standardized at all. It imports
all the oddities of LaTeX in its data format (for instance, diacritics
are handled in a very obscure way).
- As a result, the tooling around Bibtex is really poor in most
programming languages I am aware of;
- The information stored in the Bibtex record is redundant with other
fields in your data model, creating headaches for data consumers having
to resort to unreliable heuristics to reconcile Bibtex metadata to the
rest of the data model.
- There are loads of alternatives to Bibtex that are far more
interoperable. Even the antediluvian Dublin Core, as poor as it may be,
would do a much better job.
So I don't see why ORCID, as a champion of open data and
interoperability, should be relying on such an antique, unreliable and
ill-behaved format.
One of the main reasons why data consumers can't afford to ignore Bibtex
in ORCID is really to have acces to the authors list. In fact, as an
ORCID user, using Bibtex is the only way to store that authors list in
any publication I add myself. Even if I wanted to input manually the
<work:contributor> field for my own papers, I would not be able to do so
because that is simply not exposed by the UI! Why is the list of authors
so inaccessible in a system that is supposed to solve the author
disambiguation problem? This is a crucial piece of metadata - in many
fields it matters a great deal whether you are the first author, the
last one, or somewhere in the middle, for instance.
I don't expect any change on this (changing the data model is hard) but
it would be great to have some sort of acknoledgment that this really is
a design mistake.
Cheers,
Antonin
On 15/08/2018 14:21, Peters, Robert wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> Short answer:
> You should resolve the external identifier(s).
>
> Longer answer:
> We've seen every kind of name convention used and populated in the
> record. Citation is optional and can be any string populated by members
> or users. Contributors list are populated by our members organizations.
> We currently we do not compare what they are populating with the
> external identifier(s). In cases where ORCID iD is included in the
> contributor list the credit name is replaced with the researcher's
> preferred credit name display. Members may or may not keep contributors
> and or citations up to date. We always suggest identifiers are resolved
> instead of relying on metadata that may not be up to date or correct.
>
> We are looking at providing an API endpoint service that makes
> resolution of external identifiers easier although we are not likely to
> get to implementing in a time frame that works for you. Until then you
> may find this javascript library(or the pattern it follows)
> useful
https://github.com/ORCID/orcid-js.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Peters
> Technology Director at ORCID.org <
http://ORCID.org>
>
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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:04 AM, Christian Gutknecht
> <
ch.gut...@gmail.com <mailto:
ch.gut...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I've got a question regarding the handing of authors/contributors
> within publications. Actually we would like to import those to our
> system, without going to the external source (e.g. Crossref).
>
> If specific publication metadata is embedded as bibtex, we parse the
> authors in bibtex, which works fine. But there are also publications
> that do not have embedded Bibtex.
>
> *Example: Citation with list of
> Contributors:*
https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0003-0336-1955/work/28594120
> <
https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0003-0336-1955/work/28594120>
>
> There is a *citation*:
>
> <work:citation>
> <work:citation-type>formatted-unspecified</work:citation-type>
> <work:citation-value>Vogt L, Reichlin TS, Nathues C, Würbel H, PLoS
> biology, 2016, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. e2000598,
> 2016</work:citation-value> </work:citation>
>
> And a *list of contributors*
> <work:contributors> <work:contributor> <work:credit-name>Vogt
> L</work:credit-name> <work:contributor-attributes>
> <work:contributor-sequence>first</work:contributor-sequence>
> <work:contributor-role>author</work:contributor-role>
> </work:contributor-attributes> </work:contributor>
> <work:contributor> <work:credit-name>Reichlin TS</work:credit-name>
> <work:contributor-attributes>
> <work:contributor-sequence>first</work:contributor-sequence>
> <work:contributor-role>author</work:contributor-role>
> </work:contributor-attributes> </work:contributor> ....
>
> *Example: Authors only in
> Description:*
https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0003-0336-1955/work/28073434
> <
https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0003-0336-1955/work/28073434>
> <work:short-description>Planz C, Nathues H, Brinkmann U, große
> Beilage E. . 2010; 38 (G): 205-264</work:short-description>
>
>
> Questions:
> 1. Is there any rule how the work:credit-name should be interpreted
> in case you want to extract the first and last name seperated.
> Sometimes it comes with a space, sometimes with a "," Sometimes
> first and last name are switched.
> 2. What's exactly the mechanism how work:contributors are added to
> the ORCID record? Adding a publication via
orcid.org
> <
http://orcid.org> (Add work manually) does not provide the fields
> to enter the authors. So I assume there's an automatic parsing of
> the entered citation or DOI?
> 3. Is it "worth" to parse the description for contributors? Or is an
> unusual case that the citation information is stored in there?
>
>
> Thansk for any answers.
>
> Best regards
>
> Christian
>
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1692
> <
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-1692>
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