spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "orcid",3  "name": "ORCID",4  "aliases": ["ORCID iD", "Open Researcher and Contributor ID"],5  "vendor": { "name": "ORCID, Inc.", "slug": "orcid", "website": "https://info.orcid.org" },6  "homepage_url": "https://orcid.org/",7  "docs_url": "https://info.orcid.org/documentation/",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source",9  "product_type": "service",10  "product_status": "active",11  "summary": "Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file",12  "description": "ORCID is a non-profit organization that issues persistent identifiers for researchers and maintains the records linked to them. An ORCID iD distinguishes a researcher from others with similar names and travels with them across employers, funders and publishers; the record lists works, affiliations, funding and peer-review activity, with privacy settings controlled by the researcher and \"trust markers\" indicating which items were asserted by member organizations. Registration and record maintenance are free for individuals; the organization is funded by fees from member institutions, publishers and funders.\n\nIntegrations use two APIs. The Public API, available to anyone after registering client credentials, supports OAuth sign-in with ORCID, collection of authenticated iDs and reading and searching public record data in XML or JSON, with a sandbox for testing. The Member API, for fee-paying members, adds the ability to write to records with the researcher's permission and comes with integration support. An annual public data file of all public record content is released under a CC0 waiver. ORCID does not verify the claims in records (members' assertions provide the trust layer), and the registry contains many sparsely populated or duplicate records, so it is an identifier rather than a bibliometric source.",13  "capabilities": ["Persistent researcher identifiers with self-maintained records", "Privacy controls and trust markers for member-asserted data", "OAuth sign-in with ORCID", "Public API for reading and searching public data", "Member API for writing to records with permission", "Annual CC0 public data file", "Sandbox environment for integrations"],14  "workflows": ["Adding ORCID login to a journal or repository system", "Disambiguating authors in a bibliometric dataset", "Auto-updating a researcher's works from Crossref and DataCite"],15  "advantages": ["Free for researchers and widely required by publishers and funders", "Open APIs and CC0 data file", "Non-profit governance"],16  "limitations": ["Record contents are self-reported unless member-asserted", "Many sparse or duplicate records", "Write access requires paid membership"],17  "prerequisites": ["Free ORCID account; client credentials for API use"],18  "audiences": ["Researchers", "Publishers, funders and institutions integrating identity", "Scientometricians"],19  "alternatives": ["openalex", "crossref", "zenodo", "google-scholar"],20  "comparison_notes": "OpenAlex builds its own author entities and links them to ORCID iDs; Crossref registers DOIs for works and carries ORCID iDs in metadata; Google Scholar profiles are a proprietary alternative identity layer without an API. ORCID is the neutral identifier the others reference.",21  "categories": [{ "slug": "research-dissemination", "primary": true }],22  "tags": ["identifiers", "api", "open-data", "oauth"],23  "use_cases": ["write-papers", "collaborate"],24  "operating_systems": ["web"],25  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],26  "interfaces": ["web", "api"],27  "deployment_models": ["saas"],28  "integrations": ["Crossref", "DataCite", "Zenodo", "Overleaf", "publisher submission systems"],29  "data_formats": ["XML", "JSON", "Public data file (XML/JSON)"],30  "languages": [],31  "source_model": "open-source",32  "pricing_model": ["free", "enterprise"],33  "self_hostable": false,34  "sources": [35    { "url": "https://orcid.org/", "type": "official_site", "title": "ORCID", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },36    { "url": "https://info.orcid.org/what-is-orcid/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "About ORCID", "supports": ["description", "pricing_model", "vendor", "capabilities"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02", "note": "Non-profit; free for researchers; member fees; CC0 public data file" },37    { "url": "https://info.orcid.org/what-is-orcid/services/public-api/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Public API - ORCID", "supports": ["capabilities", "interfaces"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },38    { "url": "https://info.orcid.org/documentation/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "ORCID Documentation", "supports": ["docs_url"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },39    { "url": "https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source", "type": "repository", "title": "ORCID/ORCID-Source", "supports": ["repo_url", "source_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }40  ],41  "confidence": "high",42  "uncertainty_note": "'enterprise' pricing model denotes organizational membership fees; no SPDX identifier recorded because the repository's LICENSE.md could not be retrieved in raw form.",43  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",44  "depth": "standard",45  "editorial_status": "reviewed",46  "visibility": "public",47  "featured": false,48  "author": "batch-E"49}50