lukecoy
commented
8 years ago AH. API v1 doesn't specify ORCID. But V2 does. This isn't an issue, closing
Closed lukecoy closed 8 years ago
lukecoy
commented
8 years ago AH. API v1 doesn't specify ORCID. But V2 does. This isn't an issue, closing
It seems that the author resource representation returned by Figshares API may not be returning what is entirely expected. Figshare calls these representations presenters.
Example: Article #1394809 should correspond to Figshare's Article Presenter Level 2, which at a glance it seems to do (Article Presenter L2 = L1 & L2 combined). Article Presenter L2 also contains an Author Presenter inside it.
If we take a closer look at the Author Presenter, it shows that ORCID is a field that you would expect to be returned, presumably if a specific author has an ORCID Figshare knows about. But Article #1394809 doesn't show an ORCID, even though the corresponding author, "Pedro Javier Villanueva Hernández" does have one on his figshare public profile. Seems like a bug.
Another example with a different article
TL;DR: There are multiple cases where Figshare's API isn't returning all the information I would expect. I think it probably means there's a bug in the API.
When this bug gets fixed (I'll make an issue on Fighshare's user_documentation repo), we should correct our author parsing for figshare to account for the change.