Include ORCID iDs in work metadata out of the box

[sheilarabun]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, there are several ways that ORCID iDs can be associated with a person in DSpace:

1. Authenticated ORCID iDs via the ORCID API integration with the person entity/profile
2. ORCID lookup tool (unauthenticated) - based on authority records, not person entities
3. Import of ORCID iDs (either authenticated or unauthenticated)

Ticket #9086 will address printing or displaying these ORCID iDs from any source on the work landing pages, however, my understanding is that only ORCID iDs that are associated with person entities are included in the work metadata, and that ORCID iDs associated with authority records are not included in work metadata (correct?).

The problem here is that ALL ORCID iDs in the system should be associated with work metadata.

Describe the solution you'd like

Ideally, if possible, any ORCID iD present in the system, regardless of the source/whether it's associated with a person entity or an authority record, would be automatically included with the work metadata for items authored by the individual(s) with the ORCID iD(s).

Describe alternatives or workarounds you've considered
For institutions that have been using the ORCID lookup tool in versions 5 and 6 of DSpace, ORCID iDs are only associated with authority records, not person entities. So, to help with including these in work metadata, and help those institutions migrate to newer versions of DSpace, it would be helpful to have a way to migrate authority record ORCID iDs to person entities. Could there be a special tool to allow this? (see related ticket: #9530)

[abollini]

hi @sheilarabun ,
I can confirm that ORCID eventually stored in an authority record are not displayed in the work detail page nor available in the work metadata via the interoperability layers (oai-phm, rest api).
It would be not trivial to solve both problem, I expect that retrieve the orcid to display it in the work (item) detail page is easier than allow the other layers to use this information but I need to go a bit deeper in the investigation to provide an estimation.
The #9530 is instead something that I feel more needed and that could eventually makes this other task less urgent