Presented at the ORCID Workshop in Milan (Italy), 9th October 2015. Cineca contributions to the panel on National adoption projects

1. ORCID Country report: Italy
Andrea Bollini
Head of Open Source and Open Standards Strategy

2. What we have done

3. National agreement with
ORCID: Cineca as
consortium leader
supported by ANVUR and
CRUI - I.R.ID.E project
ANVUR made ORCID
mandatory in order to
partecipate in the National
Assesment (from November
2015)
Creation of a working group
for the I.R.ID.E project
(ANVUR, Cineca,
rapresentatives from
Universities and Research
Centers)
Integration with ORCID
trough a central component
- the ORCID HUB - to
facilitate the adoption of
the identifier
Documentation in Italian for
the end users, including the
translation of ORCID FAQ +
specific FAQ for the national
project + ORCID’s website
and Researcher’s UI (soon)
Events with Universities,
Recorded Webinar and
short video tutorial
What we have done

4. ORCID adoptions in Italy
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new ORCID cumulative ORCID
1 University
national database
5-10 Universities / week

5. • Get authorization by the researcher for
several applications at one time to allow
use of future services without additional
effort
• Provide additional services to incentivate
the use of ORCID
• Provide basic tools for institutions that
doesn’t have local systems
The ORCID Hub

6. Sito Docente
LoginMIUR
National
orcid.org
HUB
www.cineca.it
Any other integrated
application
Store & collect authorization tokens for
all the integrated applications

7. Sito Docente
LoginMIUR
National HUB
www.cineca.it
Any other integrated
application
Collected authorization tokens for all the integrated applications can be
download by the administrators of the single application as XLS files,
retrieved using REST WS or received in realtime as POST notification from
the Hub to the registered application endpoint

8. I.R.ID.E. HUB
ORCID #1
ORCID#1
ORCID #2
ORCID #3
ORCID #2
ORCID #3
ORCID #1
ORCID #2
ORCID #3
www.cineca.itAdditional services

9. National HUB
www.cineca.itBasic tools
CSV files
The administrators of an integrated
application will be able to use their
ORCID credential to download data from
the ORCID registry as XLS files. The
same file can be manipulated offline and
upload in the system to propagate the
changes to the ORCID registry. The Hub
will use the application collected
authorization to operate the read/write
actions

10. https://github.com/Cineca/OrcidHub
License AGPL v3
ORCID Hub – Open Source Software

11. How it works

12. IRIS – prompt for ORCID
The Create or associate ORCID button include an OTT (one time ticket)
generated by the application using the Hub integration-WS. In this way the
Hub known which users is loggedin

13. www.cineca.it
One time ticket authentication
FAQ link to the full ORCID FAQ in
Italian
Applications list depending on the
institution specified by the client during
OTT creation
Creation or association direct button

14. Creation screen – prefilled
Prefilled by the Hub using data
provided by the client application
during OTT creation

15. Authorize all applications in the list_1

16. Authorize all applications in the list_2

17. Association done – redirect on the original
application
www.cineca.it

18. Other applications receive notification www.cineca.it
When the process complete or the ORCID has been already claimed from
another application integrated with the Hub, the ORCID is shown

19. API-KEY DB
Authentication token
Sequence flow
LoginMIUR
IRIS
Other
systems
National ORCID
authorization Hub
ORCID
LoginMIUR
IRIS
Hub
1
2
3
OTT (one time ticket)
WS getTokenByLocalID (Tax Number)
WS getOTTByLocalID (Tax Number)
Authorizations
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www.cineca.it

20. Thanks for your attention!
Andrea Bollini
Head of Open Source and Open Standards Strategy
a.bollini@cineca.it