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2019-04-28

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Adding ORCID references to authors/editors in Respec

The orcid.js script can be used to add an ORCID reference to an editor/author of a specification when editing it using respec. The reference is an image (the ORCID logo as provided by the ORCID site), added right after the name and affiliation of a person, and linking to the persons ORCID ID:

Usage in respec

Linking to the script

Copy the orcid.js in a folder of choice, and add a reference to the script in the header of the respec source as:

<script src="PATH_TO_FOLDER/orcid.js" class="remove"></script>

Add a reference in the user configuration

Add the following to the respecConfig structure:

postProcess: [show_orcid],

This method is invoked by respec after all other respec processing is done. The link to the script does not appear in the generated HTML file (ie, the script is not needed for the final publication).

Add an ORCID reference to authors/editors

The author and/or editor structure should contain two entries: w3cid (the identifier of the person at W3C, used for other purposes as well), and orcid, that contains the person’s ORCID ID. For example:

editors: [
    {
  		...
    },
    {
        "name": "Ivan Herman",
        ...,
        "w3cid": 7382,
        "orcid": "0000-0003-0782-2704"
    },
    ...

],

(The value of w3cid can be found, for example, on one’s W3C user profile.)

Styling the output

The script generates the following structure into the DOM tree:

<span class="orcid"><a href="https://orcid.org/ORCIDID"><img src="https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16.gif"></a></span>

Ie, using the orcid class the output can be styles. A typical CSS statement may be:

span.orcid a {
	border-bottom: none !important;
}

To avoid a bottom border on the ORCID logo.

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Ivan Herman, ivan@w3.org, 2018

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