add ORCID user authentication

[cjlee112]

ORCID is the publishers' system for unifying author identities across their publications. It's new and hence probably mostly an empty box, but we might as well use it. They provide an API that talks XML. See http://orcid.org. Mentioned in issue #41

I think the basic support would be:

• let a user add their ORCID ID to their account (if they already have one). This would be done using OAuth, and authenticates the user as that ORCID ID (and gives us a list of their publications, if ORCID has any records for that ID).
• let a user create a new ORCID ID. Then sync our list of the user's publications to ORCID... not sure if that's a big win, but a reasonable thing to do, eventually.

[sashakolpakov]

ORCID is not that empty, there are quite a few people using it already. It's still under development, since they want to add a possibility not only to collect your own publications previously split in between several non-unified bibliographic systems, but also to write your bio, affiliations, references to granting agencies ever supported your research, etc. It could be a nice way to make up ones user profile in SPNetwork, I think.

[fgdorais]

I was under the impression that ORCID would charge for use of its authentication services. Is some (useful) part of it free access?

[sashakolpakov]

It allowed me to pick up my papers indexed by different databases, including SCOPUS, free of charge. Has never asked for a penny, actually. However, there are not a lot of things you can do with ORCID. At the moment, it just allows you to collect all the references from within different databases in one place + write your short bio and contact information.

[fgdorais]

@sashakolpakov ORCID is free for researchers but I think they charge for organizations to use their authentication services.

[sashakolpakov]

Now I see, sorry for that.