orcid outreach meeting dev breakout session
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From afternoon breakout session at the May 2012 ORCID Outreach Meeting at in Cambridge MA http://about.orcid.org/civicrm/event/info?id=4&reset=1TRANSCRIPT
Building up to ORCID beta launchBreakout session on developer resources and community outreach
Moderator: Gudmundur A. Thorisson, PhD <[email protected]> Research associate, University of Leicester and Guest scientist, University of IcelandParticipant in the GEN2PHEN Consortium and the ORCID Technical Working Group
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012Thursday, 17 May 12
ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
Session Outline
‣ Geoff B: brief intro + sandbox demo
‣ Brief overview of:
- new resources for developers
- dev community outreach - a plan in the making
‣ Developer perspective: making ORCID onboarding easy
‣ User perspective: making ORCID use easy
‣ Flash talks from Mike T., others?
‣ Discussions / Q&A (until we run out of time)
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
New Phase 1.0 test sandbox
‣ Hosted test sandbox service is now live http://devsandbox.orcid.org http://api.devsandbox.orcid.org
‣ Can register... BUT no guarantee of persistence
‣ Tier 1 API can be used immediatelycurl -H 'Accept: application/orcid+xml' http://devsandbox.orcid.org/0000-0003-2012-0010
curl -H 'Accept: application/orcid+xml' http://devsandbox.orcid.org/search/orcid-bio?q=thorisson
‣ Client app registration for Tier 2 access <-- contact us
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
http://dev.orcid.org
Web portal for developers
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
Dev community outreach strategy
‣ In-person workshops
- ~1/2 day hands-on sessions
- Likely held with various major conferences or other events
‣ Online-only “webinar” events
- ~1h sessions, presentation followed by Q&A
- Cheap, easy, reusable, recordings can be put online
‣ Webcasts demonstrating how to use the API etc.
- Railscasts, PeepCode, others
!!! NB DRAFT PROPOSAL ONLY - feedback wanted !!!
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[commence with hat-switching act]
‣ Supporting the ‘small guys’ in the Long Tail
‣ Lots of smaller scholarly services, more nimble than bigger players, faster to onboard
‣ Rich flora of grassroots initiatives
- e.g. #altmetrics Total Impact http://total-impact.org
- Case study: genetic variation databases
- What kind of “works”? Small-scale data submissions + expert curation
- Part of GEN2PHEN mission http://www.gen2phen.org
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Prof Anthony J Brookes GEN2PHEN coordinator
Chair, Bioinformatics and GenomicsDepartment of Genetics
University of Leicester, UK
- http://www.gen2phen.org
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
So what do we need???‣ Simple RESTful APIs [check!]
‣ Support for standard authn/authz protocol [check!]
‣ Some reusable pieces of kit
- drop-in components - embeddable Javscript/CSS/HTML, buttons and other graphical elements, more
- sample code for reusing/adapting (aka how others are doing it)
‣ IOW all these little things which wouldn’t take a great deal of time to prepare BUT would help a LOT with getting people and started.
‣ The more people get up & started, the more will go the whole way and start use ORCID in production
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
Supporting dev community
‣ Create environment for people to come together and share their stuff, ask questions, offer ideas etc.
‣ Encourage open source development
- My own contributions:
- demo app implemented in Ruby on Rails https://github.com/gthorisson/ORCID-example-client-app-rails planning to package up and distribute as Ruby gem
- some add-on modules for the Drupal CMS [coming in summer]
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
Usability - getting users to use it‣ MUST be super-easy!
- Users weaned on Facebook, Twitter & friends
‣ The “ORCID experience”? [tm]
- UX broadly consistent from site to site
- branding - something users recognize
- Do we need a certification program?
- Clicking buttons - no copy/paste of identifiers!
‣ Nothing New To See Here: Much of ORCID integration is not fundamentally different from Twitter/[insert favorite social app]
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ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
want this
Thursday, 17 May 12
ORCID Outreach Meeting, Microsoft Research Campus, Cambridge MA May 17 2012
AcknowledgementsThis work has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)under grant agreement number 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.
Contact me!
<[email protected]>http://www.linkedin.com/in/mummihttp://www.twitter.com/gthorisson
http://www.gthorisson.namePublished under the CC BY license:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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