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If you wish to enable this feature, some changes are required to the dspace.cfg file. The first step is to activate the authority as a valid option for authority control, this is done by adding/setting an additional plugin in the plugin plugin.named.org.dspace.content.authority.ChoiceAuthority property. An example of this can be found below.
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The feature relies on the following configuration parameters in dspace.cfg. To activate the default settings it suffices to remove the comment hashes ("#") for the following lines. See the section at the bottom of this page what these parameters mean exactly and how you can tweak the configuration.
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Running this script again will update the index and keep the index clean. For example if an author occurs in a single item and that item is deleted the script will need to be run again to remove it from the index. When run again it will remove all records that no longer have a link to existing authors in the database.
Usage in DSpace
Submission of new DSpace items - Author lookup
The submissions forms have not changed much. The only thing you can notice is an extra button next to the input fields for the author names. Next to the Add button, which is common for all repeatable fields, there is the Lookup & Add button.
It's by clicking on that button that the Look-up User Interface appears. If an author name was filled in but not added yet, the Lookup User Interface will immediately perform a search for that name. Otherwise the search field remains empty and a list of known authors is displayed. The list of authors is updated as you type in the search box.
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The authors retrieved from ORCID have their name italicized and they're listed after the authors that are found in the repository.
Click on one of these names to see more information about them. The message "There's no one selected" will vanish, making room for the author's information. The available information can vary: Authors imported from ORCID have an orcid where the others do not. Authors that have been added without look-up only show their last name and first name.
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Clicking the Lookup button brings back the Lookup User Interface. This works just the same way as in the submission forms.
Editing existing items using Batch CSV Editing
Instructions on how to use the Batch CSV Editing are found on the Batch Metadata Editing documentation page.
ORCID Integration is provided through the Batch CSV Editing feature with an extra available headers "ORCID:dc.contributor.author". The usual CSV headers only contain the metadata fields: e.g. "dc.contributor.author". In addition to the traditional header, another dc.contributor.author header can be added with the "ORCID:" prefix. The values in this column are supposed to be ORCIDs.
For each of the ORCID authors a lookup will be done and their names will be added to the metadata. All the non-ORCID authors will be added as well. The authority keys and solr records are added when the reported changes are applied.
Storage of related metadata
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In practice the cache is provided by an apache solr server. When a look-up is made and an author is chosen that is not yet in the cache, a record is created from an ORCID profile and added to the cache with the list of related metadata. The value of the Dublin Core metadata is based on the first and last name as they are set in the ORCID profile. The authority key for this value links directly to the solr document's id. DSpace does not provide a way to edit these records manually.
The information in the authority cache can be updated by running the following command line operation:
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The configuration property can be set in config/modules/solrauthority.cfg:
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auto-update-items = false | true |
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For the cache update script, one property can be set in config/modules/solrauthority.cfg:
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auto-update-items = false | true |
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To fix this, open the file at config/spring/api/orcid-authority-services.xml and find this spring bean:
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The fields with data coming directly from ORCID are: first_name, last_name, name_variant, orcid_id, label_researcher_url, label_keyword, label_external_identifier, label_biography, label_country. The field all_labels contains all the values from the other fields starting with "label_".
How can I index additional fields in the authority cache?
There is currently no configuration to control which fields are indexed. The only way to achieve this is to modify the source code.
List of the files at work for this job:
config/spring/api/orcid-authority-services.xml: OrcidSource contains the URL for orcid's REST API.
org.dspace.authority.orcid.Orcid makes the REST call
+ org.dspace.authority.orcid.xml.XMLtoBio converts the received XML to a java object (Bio).
+ org.dspace.authority.orcid.model.Bio
+ org.dspace.authority.orcid.OrcidAuthorityValue#create(org.dspace.authority.orcid.model.Bio) inserts all the values from Bio into the AuthorityValue subclass.
+ org.dspace.authority.orcid.OrcidAuthorityValue#getSolrInputDocument defines what's included in solr.
The files preceded with a '+' would be necessary to modify to add more info into the cache.
How can I use the information stored in the authority cache?
The look-up UI is currently the only place this information is sent to. However just a limited number of fields are sent. The place in the source code to modify to get more fields there is org.dspace.authority.orcid.OrcidAuthorityValue#choiceSelectMap. This is also documented in the readme of the org.dspace.authority package.
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In short: authority keys that exist prior to enabling the solrauthority are kept. They just won't show in the look-up until they are indexed.
Where can I find the URL that is used to lookup ORCIDs?
It is found in the config/spring/api/orcid-authority-services.xml configuration file. Look for the <bean name="OrcidSource">, which is initialized with a URL of http://pub.orcid.org
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