Hi Chris, that's correct. ORCID ID is only stored in the authority index.
The design is such that ORCID is not used as authority key in DSpace. When you're using SolrAuthority, a UUID is generated and used as the authority key (in the DB and in Solr authority; not sure if in Solr search, too - I don't currently have such an index in front of me). Such design is sound - it makes it possible to store not only an ORCID ID for an author, but potentially other external identifiers, too. The bad news is that Solr authority is treated as a persistent store, so you have to back it up, too. If you lost it, you'd have to de-duplicate your authors again. Also, there is currently no UI for deduplication (you can use CSV export and deduplicate manually). There are currently some improvements to ORCID lookup in the pipeline (but not to the aforementioned design) in case you want to review them: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1698 Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
