Providing a user login via ORCID accounts

labs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (UBLabs) — Sun, 15 May 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Why you may want to have authenticated users

There are a few features of web applications we – as users – grew accustomed to. Like bookmarking things on our favourite marketplaces for instance. For a Specialised Information Service, this feature is especially appealing, since it fits the workflow of a good number of scientists and humanists. You – as a researcher – can search a catalogue and bookmark anything that strikes your interest for further review. You can also export them into your reference system of choice.

Strolling through library shelves on graphs' edges

labs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (UBLabs) — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

During development of the new African Studies Library online portal, I was faced with the task to implement an authority based search system. Without a more detailed specification, I first had to figure out, what that could be and how to implement it.

The authority data to be used were datasets provided by the German “Gemeinsame Normdatei”, GND for short. That is all fine and well, but nobody would enter GND-Identifiers like https://d-nb.info/gnd/121578437 in a search field, expecting any kind of meaningful result. That’s simply not practical. So let’s do something else. How about a search system delivering search results based on authority data as suggestions or recommendations? And no strange identifiers would need to be entered by users.

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Providing a user login via ORCID accounts

Why you may want to have authenticated users

Strolling through library shelves on graphs' edges