The day I received my learner driver permit, I remember being handed three things: a plastic thermosealed reminder that age sixteen was not a good look on me; a yellow L-plate sign as flimsy as my driving ability; and a weighty âhow to driveâ guide listing all the things that I absolutely must not, under any circumstances, even-if-it-seems-like-a-really-swell-idea-at-the-time, never, ever do.
Weâll be at booth M82 in the Hotspot area of Hall 4.2 and would love to meet with you. Let us know if youâre interested in chatting with one of us - about anything at all.
About 1 year ago, Crossref, DataCite and ORCID announced a joint initiative to launch and sustain an open, independent, non-profit organization identifier registry to facilitate the disambiguation of researcher affiliations. Today we publish governance recommendations and product principles and requirements for the creation of an open, independent organization identifier registry and invite community feedback.
Now in its second year, this âopen festival of persistent identifiersâ brings together people from all walks of life who have something to say about PIDs. If you work with them, develop with them, measure or manage them, let us know your PID adventures, pitfalls, and plans by submitting a talk by September 18. It’ll be in Girona, Spain, January 23-24, 2018.
A number of our members have asked if they can register their peer reviews with us. They believe that discussions around scholarly works should have DOIs and be citable to provide further context and provenance for researchers reading the article. To that end, we can announce some pertinent news as we enter Peer Review Week 2017: Crossref infrastructure is soon to be extended to manage DOIs for peer reviews. Launching next month will be support for this new content type, with schema specifically dedicated to the reviews and discussions of scholarly content.
Over the past few months we have been adding to the metadata and functionality of our REST API, Crossrefâs public machine interface for the metadata of all 90 million+ registered content items. Much of the work focused on a review and upgrade of the APIâs code and architecture in order to better support its rapidly growing usage. But we have also extended the types of metadata that the API can deliver.
As part of our blog post series on the Crossref REST API, we talked to Silvio Peroni and David Shotton of OpenCitations (OC) about the work theyâre doing, and how theyâre using the Crossref REST API as part of their workflow.
Our annual meeting on 14th and 15th November, LIVE17 is shaping up nicely with an exciting line-up of respected speakers talking around the theme of âMetadata + Infrastructure + Relations = Contextâ, with each half day covering some element of the main theme.
PIDs for conferences - your comments are welcome!
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2018 April 18
