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
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