Add two services

[gretaheng]

Dear Mr Weisman,

On behalf of the IGeLU/ELUNE Linked Open Data Community of Practice Working Group, we are requesting to have the following two linked data vocabularies be added to the Alma Refine List:

1. Homosaurus: https://homosaurus.org/. It has a search API: e.g., https://homosaurus.org/search/v3.jsonld?q=feminism (to support libraries' DEI efforts)

2. ORCID. It seems to be supported by https://refine.codefork.com/ (to support libraries' needs to display more information about authors)

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We appreciate your help greatly.

Greta Heng and Xiaoli Li

Greta Heng
Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian
San Diego State University
[email protected]

Xiaoli Li
Head of Content Support Services Department
University of California, Davis
[email protected]

[gretaheng]

Hi,

We're just following up on our request of adding vocabularies. We wonder if you need anything from us? Any updates?

Thank you!

Greta Heng and Xiaoli Li

[mgobat]

Hi @gretaheng. We haven't yet evaluated this enhancement request. We will post as soon as we determine feasibility, Thank you.

[ori229]

Support for ORCID was added today - https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/alma-refine/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Regarding Homosaurus - we are still evaluating it since it seems like it doesn't support the Refine API standards completely. You can try running it from https://reconciliation-api.github.io/testbench/#/ and see that it doesn't really work. Are you able to configure it in the Cloud App? Does it work for you?

[gretaheng]

Hi!

Sorry for the late reply. I tested this ORCID service recently. It seems that the ORCID services is not working for my institution's ALMA at least. I documented my exploration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XhVchlvG2Q19rPIcnkWWhFzYo7_mpZkGJaEFdxburew/edit?usp=sharing. Could you take a look? Is there something wrong I did that caused the failure of name matching?

Thanks,
Greta

[NurielsExl]

Hi Greta,

About the issues you've documented -
Could it be that you used, for these testing, an ORCID sandbox server credentials, instead of a production server crdentials?

Thanks
Nuriel

[gretaheng]

Hi Nuriel,

I added a screenshot to the end of the google doc. You can see that the url does not start with [https://sandbox.orcid.org]. It starts with [https://orcid.org/signin]. I believe I am using a production server credentials. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XhVchlvG2Q19rPIcnkWWhFzYo7_mpZkGJaEFdxburew/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks,
Greta

[NurielsExl]

Hi Greta,

If you use production credentials, currently I can't tell why it doesn't find any data on your tests.
I would test it, but I only have a sandbox credentials for testing, so I can't debug your specifically cases to find out the reason.
I've tried to test the same case (with Sureshi Jayawardene) against sandbox, and it looks like it worked fine (added its orcid num to the MARC record).
We'll continue to try to investigate it to solve this.

In the meantime, if it's not too difficult, please also try again to make sure your credentials are correct in the ORCID integration profile.

Thanks,
Nuriel

[gretaheng]

Hi Nuriel,

I am pretty sure the setting on my Alma is correct. IGELU ELUNA Linked Data Working Group (https://igelu.org/products-and-initiatives/communities-of-practice/linked-open-data/) has aware that at least four institutions all experience this "no refinements found" using Alma refine orcid reconciliation services, including San Diego State University, National Library of Algriculture, University at Buffalo, and Bond University. Would it possible that your sandbox have different setting from our Alma?

Please let me know if there's a solution.

Best,
Greta