Building up to ORCID beta launchBreakout session on developer resources and community outreach

Moderator: Gudmundur A. Thorisson, PhD <gthorisson@gmail.com> 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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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

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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.

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