Overview

PTCRISync aims to keep user profiles at the local system with corresponding ORCID profiles.

What it needs

• Access to the ORCID Member Api
• The ability to convert research productions from/to the the ORCID schema (currently 2.0rc2)
• A persistent local notion of "synchronized production", for productions that are to be kept up-to-date
• The ability to present notifications to the users to indicate newly found productions
• A fine control on the assignment of external unique identifiers (at least one id, no overlapping ids)

What it can do

• Keep the selected local works up-to-date in the user's ORCID profile (export works)
• Notify the user of new unique works found in the ORCID profile (import works)
• Notify the user of new external identifiers for know works found in the ORCID profile (import updates)

What it cannot do

• It cannot modify ORCID works created by the user or other sources
• Directly modify local works (follows a notification paradigm)
• Synchronize works without valid external identifiers
• Synchronize productions othar than works (yet)