Wednesday, January 08, 2020

ORCID serves schema.org linked data via content negotiation - who knew?

Just a note that ORCID serves data using terms from schema.org, and has done for a while (since April 2018), but somehow I missed this.

You can get linked data in JSON-LD using content negotiation. If we send a request to https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-0514 with "Accept: application/ld+json" we get back something like this:

{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-0514", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-0514", "givenName": "Mark", "familyName": "Hughes", "affiliation": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "RINGGOLD", "value": "41803" } }, "@reverse": {}, "url": [ "https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/organisational-structure/staff/tropical-diversity/dr-mark-hughes/", "https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/mark-hughes/" ], "identifier": [ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "Loop profile", "value": "845425" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "Loop profile", "value": "826408" } ] }

This is the profile for Mark Hughes (0000-0002-2168-0514). Up until now I've been generating my own linked data version of ORCID records that look very similar to this, but going forward this will simplify life.

Note that I've truncated the above example, it's actually this:

{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-0514", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2168-0514", "givenName": "Mark", "familyName": "Hughes", "affiliation": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "RINGGOLD", "value": "41803" } }, "@reverse": { "creator": [ { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428619000283", "name": "BEGONIA MAGUNIANA (BEGONIACEAE, BEGONIA SECT. OLIGANDRAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM NEW GUINEA", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s0960428619000283" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.407.1.11", "name": "A revision of Begonia sect. Petermannia on Sumatra, Indonesia", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.11646/phytotaxa.407.1.11" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.407.1.4", "name": "Two new species of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Borneo", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.11646/phytotaxa.407.1.4" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428619000052", "name": "AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND A NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA (B. RHEOPHYTICA) FROM MYANMAR", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s0960428619000052" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194877", "name": "Chloroplast and nuclear DNA exchanges among Begonia sect. Baryandra species (Begoniaceae) from Palawan Island, Philippines, and descriptions of five new species.", "identifier": [ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1371/journal.pone.0194877" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "pmc", "value": "PMC5931476" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "pmid", "value": "29718922" } ], "sameAs": [ "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5931476", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29718922" ] }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428618000136", "name": "TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA FROM SUMATRA", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s0960428618000136" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s096042861800001x", "name": "A REVISION OF BEGONIA SECT. SYMBEGONIA ON NEW GUINEA", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s096042861800001x" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.396", "name": "A revision and one new species of Begonia L. (Begoniaceae, Cucurbitales) in Northeast India", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.5852/ejt.2018.396" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.606013", "name": "Pliocene intercontinental dispersal from Africa to Southeast Asia highlighted by the new species Begonia afromigrata (Begoniaceae)", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1002/tax.606013" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.381.1.16", "name": "Taxonomic notes on the Philippine endemic Begonia colorata (Begoniaceae, section Petermannia)", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.11646/phytotaxa.381.1.16" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40529-017-0182-x", "name": "Three new species of Begonia sect. Baryandra from Panay Island, Philippines.", "identifier": [ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "pmid", "value": "28664395" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1186/s40529-017-0182-x" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "pmc", "value": "PMC5491425" } ], "sameAs": [ "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28664395", "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5491425" ] }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.3767/000651917x695083", "name": "A new species of Begonia section Parvibegonia (Begoniaceae) from Thailand and Myanmar", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.3767/000651917x695083" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428617000075", "name": "TAXONOMY OF BEGONIA ALBOMACULATA AND DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES ENDEMIC TO PERU", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s0960428617000075" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428617000051", "name": "FOUR NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM THAILAND", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1017/s0960428617000051" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.3850/s2382581216000077", "name": "A new species and a new record in Begonia sect. Platycentrum (Begoniaceae) from Thailand", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.3850/s2382581216000077" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.119", "name": "Begonia yapenensis (sect. Symbegonia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Papua, Indonesia", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.5852/ejt.2015.119" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.197.1.4", "name": "A new section (Begonia sect. Oligandrae sect. nov.) and a new species (Begonia pentandra sp. nov.) in Begoniaceae from New Guinea", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.11646/phytotaxa.197.1.4" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.167", "name": "Further discoveries in the ever-expanding genus Begonia (Begoniaceae): fifteen new species from Sumatra", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.5852/ejt.2015.167" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40529-015-0099-1", "name": "Three New Species of Begonia Endemic to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Palawan", "identifier": [ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "other-id", "value": "al:1817406x-201507-201507290029-201507290029-c1-14" }, { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.1186/s40529-015-0099-1" } ], "sameAs": "http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=1817406X-201507-201507290029-201507290029-c1-14" }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.56", "name": "Memecylon pseudomegacarpum M.Hughes (Melastomataceae), a new species of tree from Peninsular Malaysia", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "doi", "value": "10.5852/ejt.2013.56" } }, { "@type": "CreativeWork", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-54-38", "name": "Recircumscription of Begonia sect. 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This gives us a list of Mark's publications from ORCID. If there aren't any publications listed, the @reverse property is empty. Note that @reverse is a JSON-LD trick that enables the JSON-LD document to include not only things linked from Mark's ORCID id (e.g., his name and affiliation) but also things his ORCID id is linked to (e.g., that he is the author of works such as https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960428619000283).

I will still be generating my own linked data from ORCID for now as I rely on knowing the order of authorship for some of my work (e.g., "Reconciling author names in taxonomic and publication databases" https://doi.org/10.1101/870170), and I want to be able to further process ORCID data (e.g., looking for missing DOIs), but the fact that ORCID are making JSON-LD available is going to simplify a lot of data integration tasks in the future.