Investigate MAIS person API as a source of ORCID iDs and years active at Stanford to query Dimensions, OpenAlex

[jacobthill]

Currently we export authors.csv from the RIALTO orgs app. A problem we noted is that authors.csv only contains a list of currently active Stanford people. This results in two problems:

1. Publication loss for Stanford people who are no longer active. These people aren't in the authors.csv list anymore so none of their publications will be included from an ORCID iD query. Note: we will still include any publications in SUL-Pub
2. False attribution to Stanford of publications currently active wrote before arriving at Stanford.

To solve this we would need a list of all people who have ever been active at Stanford, along with the years they were active. This list might exists somewhere but we don't know where or if we can get access to it. We need to verify if this information is available in the MAIS person API.

• Follow up with Sangeetha to see if the historical people information is available (i.e. people no longer at Stanford, do they include dates on when these people were active)
• Look at API documentation further (see links below and sample XML response provided by sangeetha)

https://uit.stanford.edu/service/registry
https://uit.stanford.edu/developers/apis/getting-started
https://uit.stanford.edu/developers/apis/person

sample_person_xml.txt

[peetucket]

Currently asking for permission to the API