@bonfire @julian @open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn
Hmm, I used to know some people at ORCID. Let me check if they are still there...
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Björn Brembs
@bonfire @julian @open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn Hmm, I used to know some people at ORCID. Let me check if they are still there... 14 comments
Dr. jonny phd
@julian
Björn Brembs
@bonfire @julian @open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn Unfortunately, all the people formerly affiliated with ORCID that I knew personally appear to have left.
Nicolas Fressengeas
@brembs
Björn Brembs
@fresseng @bonfire @julian @open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn I did see that, when I looked, just now. P.S.: This would sort of remind me of FriendFeed, where we could subscribe to the RSS feeds of friends who, in turn, assembled their feeds from their various contributions. Would be wonderful to recover some of that previous functionality we have been missing for so long.
Nicolas Fressengeas
@brembs
Julian Fietkau
@fresseng If ORCID is willing to have this under their aegis, I think I could come up with an implementation to make ORCID records AP-followable, at least as a prototype. My own ActivityPub work is kind of early stage and I don't have much experience scaling things up, but we could test something with an early-adopter community, see if it makes sense, and then maybe rearchitect with @bonfire. 🙂
Björn Brembs
@julian @fresseng @bonfire @open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn I'd volunteer to be an early adopter! 👋
Nicolas Fressengeas
@julian
Julian Fietkau
@bonfire I'm super in favor of having you there for the project exploration with ORCID, since you've already done the work of converting ORCID records (via their API) to ActivityPub actors, which I'd describe as the only challenging technical part of my proposal. The rest is all about getting the right people together and in agreement that this is a worthwhile project. Since @fresseng suggested moving to email, wanna ping me at julian@fietkau.me? I'll CC you for my opening mail.
Dr. jonny phd
@bonfire
Julian Fietkau
@jonny I think ORCID, assuming they'll agree to do an ActivityPub project in-house, will want to run something that uses only their API and no external data sources. But there is clearly a lot of overlap with what you're doing. Wanna be part of the email thread and/or potentially a future Zoom call? https://fietkau.social/@julian/112004720087298308 |
@brembs @bonfire The reason I've been a bit reluctant to barge ahead with this idea (besides personal bandwidth) is ORCID's API structure, which limits record update notifications to premium members: https://info.orcid.org/membership/ So if we're talking about a service that effectively allows third parties to subscribe to ORCID record update feeds, I wonder if things would get all lawyery all of a sudden. 😬 But I'll ask them about it some time if no one gets ahead of me.
@open_science @jorge @UlrikeHahn
@brembs @bonfire The reason I've been a bit reluctant to barge ahead with this idea (besides personal bandwidth) is ORCID's API structure, which limits record update notifications to premium members: https://info.orcid.org/membership/ So if we're talking about a service that effectively allows third parties to subscribe to ORCID record update feeds, I wonder if things would get all lawyery all of a sudden. 😬 But I'll ask them about it some time if no one gets ahead of me.