Open hebbianloop opened 2 years ago
Came across OpenAlex today, it seems to be a much more general tool / API than ORCID. Highly recommend exploring more in detail. https://docs.openalex.org/api
Summary: A portable identity and personal digital locker for scientists to track their academic impact, link their credentials across ecosystems, and verify ownership of published digital knowledge artifacts.
Features:
Architecture Overview (1st draft):
How to Onboard?
Define Academic ID Schema. What are useful fields? Accounts
* email
* DID: (string: public key)
* ENS: (string: ethereum name service)
* openalex (String: this author's OpenAlex ID. Same as Author.id)
* orcid (String: this author's ORCID ID. Same as Author.orcid)
* mag (Integer: this author's Microsoft Academic Graph ID)
* wikipedia (String: this author's Wikipedia page)
* scopus (String: this author's Scopus author ID)
* twitter (String: this author's Twitter handle)
* github
* open science framework
* discord
Profile
* Nickname // Handle
* Institution
* Bio
* Field of Study
* DAOs or Organizations
Achievements
* Verified: signed with key pairs
* Unverified: all other imported achievements
Published Assets
* Papers
* Code/Containers
* Datasets
Schemas will live on Ceramic with Storage on Estuary
Miro Board
Web3Auth for Onboarding: Generates a Key Pair, nodes store key chunks (pay for >1000 users)
I talked to Shady about this project 2 days ago - it is really exciting! Building a trusted on-ramp to web3 by giving an easy ORCID-linked way to generate a wallet is going to be super interesting. I checked google domains, and there are interesting domains one could use for this on-ramp, including "rabbithole.science".
Excited to meet you in Denver!
A key question we have right now - how should the authenticator be implemented? For posterity's sake, here's some options we were toying with:
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I think that Ceramic is pretty much hands down for the sole reasons:
1) potentially permanently losing your academic identity is a non-starter xD 2) gas is expensive, smart contracts are not easily upgradeable
since this is just a demonstrator application, i believe that ceramic is a great place to start
slides have been posted as well! critical feedback welcome
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rVNy8Z5iWHmrt0YJdYtpdif1FslLu90HCczNiUAa2OE/edit?usp=sharing
Web3 Avatar and DID for Scientists
Research Back-End Identity Management
Project Goals
Questions
References
https://profiles.impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-6728-7745/achievements https://docs.web3auth.io/ https://info.orcid.org/documentation/ https://github.com/ourresearch/impactstory-tng https://github.com/dabit3/decentralized-identity-example https://docs.web3auth.io/usecases