Filling dataset form field based on the ROR API

[Washington Carvalho Segundo]

Hi everyone!

I am trying filling the affiliation author field on the dataset form, based on a search above the ROR API. Example:

https://api.ror.org/organizations?query=bath

Does anyone have already faced this challenge in Dataverse?

Greetings!

Washington

[Philip Durbin]

I'm confused, that search for "bath" from ROR yields 15 results including Bath College, Bath Labs, etc.

Given those results, you're trying to put them in a Dataverse dataset as author affiliations? Via API? Is that right?

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Philip Durbin
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[Washington Carvalho Segundo]

Thank you Philip!

Yes, exactly, these choices would generate a suspense list (like a lookup search) and the submitter would choose between them for filling the author affiliation.

kind regards,

Washington

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[Philip Durbin]

I see. So you're creating a GUI on the side? And it performs this task? If so I'd suggest sending something like this across the wire (please note that I'm truncating the JSON for readability) from your app to Dataverse...

"typeName": "author",
"value": [
    {
        "authorName": {
            "typeName": "authorName",
            "value": "Poe, Edgar Allen"
        }
        ,
        "authorAffiliation": {
            "typeName": "authorAffiliation",
            "value": "Baltimore Poets"
        }
    },

... using the "Edit Dataset Metadata" API at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/5.9/api/native-api.html#edit-dataset-metadata

My other thought is that ROR might be a good candidate for Dataverse's new and experimental external controlled vocabulary feature, which you can read about at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v5.7 . Right now it works best with custom metadata blocks and I don't expect it to "just work" with the citation block (which is where author affiliation is found).

I hope this helps,

Phil

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[Philip Durbin]

Good news! Over at https://github.com/gdcc/dataverse-external-vocab-support/pull/9 I saw that Kris Dekeyser was contributing an example of how to use the new external controlled vocabulary feature to search for authors and fill in their names. I asked him if he could search ROR for affiliation and he can! It works! I was wrong when I suspected this might not "just work" with the citation block. I'll attach a screenshot of searching for "ucla" and being given a picklist.

I also left a comment on the ROR issue: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/6640#issuecomment-1035493513

[Washington Carvalho Segundo]

Great Philip! Thank you very much for your help!

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