Editing ORCID (section)

==Previous Discussions==
If you are looking to retrieve publications from the ORCID service, the [http://bazaar.eprints.org/354/ Import from ORCID (Tier 1 API)] Bazaar package, or the [https://github.com/eprintsug/orcidt2 ORCID Tier 2 api framework] are good places to start.

2016-05-20 [[User:Alan.stiles@open.ac.uk|Alan Stiles]] at The Open University is working on a plugin to connect EPrints with ORCID via the Tier 2 Members API to retrieve ORCID ids and synchronise publications and affiliation details.

Some aspects that need to be considered when adopting ORCIDs, and making them available to other systems are:

* storing the ORCID (see: http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier)
* rendering the ORCID in abstract pages (see [http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier link above])
* exposing ORCIDs over OAI-PMH metadata profiles e.g. RIOXX

NB The examples below may refer to the 'creators' field - but the same approach could be used to extend other 'person' fields - e.g. contributors.