4Science & ORCID: the DSpace* ORCID integration

This presentation was delivered during the ORCID Team Retreat meeting in Italy (October 2022) to present the activities done by 4Science to benefit ORCID Members adopting the DSpace platform.

4Science, a leading contributor of DSpace, has developed the current ORCID integration for DSpace offering the ability to connect DSpace researcher profiles with ORCID, then push publications & projects information to the ORCID profile.

DSpace, until its version 7.2 was only able to query the ORCID registry to lookup for authors. DSpace-CRIS instead, an open source extension of DSpace built and maintained by 4Science, provides since version 4 a full bi-directional integration with ORCID able to push & pull data via the member API. The DSpace governance, Steering & Leadership groups, set these new features as a high priority and 4Science donated what was done for ORCID integration in DSpace-CRIS adaption and ported such features to plain DSpace. These features are available in DSpace, starting from 7.3 version.