ORCID/ORCID-Mock-API-Web-Application — Issue #13: Previous roles at current institutions
Author: wjrsimpson
Created: 2012-03-09 15:58:59+00:00
State: open

From: Will Simpson [mailto:Will.Simpson@semantico.com]
Sent: 09 March 2012 15:22
To: Taylor, Michael (ELS-OXF)
Cc: Declan Newman; Geoffrey Bilder
Subject: Re: Query re. Orcid message schema

Hi Mike,

I think the short answer is yes.

However, we've really left this up to the user. If they want to put previous roles at the same institution into the past institutions section, then there is nothing to stop them doing so (and nothing to stop API clients from doing that on their behalf (subject to being granted the necessary OAuth permissions).

I think it would be good if there was some supporting functionality in the user interface for this scenario, e.g. a button to push the current affiliation info down into the past institutions. Currently, that doesn't exist. Hopefully, there'll be a chance, at some point in the future, to review usability of the web interface overall and this is would be something we'd look at then.
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Regards,

Will

On 08/03/2012 14:09, Taylor, Michael (ELS-OXF) wrote:

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Presuming that since there can be a maximum of one role and one start date, the intention is to copy institutional data into past-institutions as the user gets promoted within the institute (and to add the end-date for each instance)?

Cheers … hopefully no more to come J

Mike

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