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The CrossRef mission hinges around the resolution of identifiers into information about scholarly publications. The importance of using web standards cannot be overestimated, both for the identifiers which are passed around, for the protocols which are used to look them up, and for the format in which the data is returned. The talk discusses some social as well as technical issues around achieving persistence of identifiers and metadata in the very long term, as well as practical use in the short term. Philip Bourne: DOIs for Biological Databases Scientific databases and scientific publishing are in a period of rapid change brought about, first, by new technologies supporting wide dissemination and enabling improved comprehension, and second, open access which puts the information contained therein into the hands of all who care to use it. These changes blur the distinction between biological databases and the biological literature and now is the time to capitalize on this hitherto unappreciated similarity. Among the tools that can help provide seamless integration between the knowledge and data traditionally held within biological journals with the related information which is traditionally held within biological databases are DOIs. To date, the Protein Data Bank has registered over 40,000 of DOIs for PDB records. This talk will cover the process of working with CrossRef on assignment of DOIs to biological data. Michael A. Keller: "The Future of Archiving, starting with the present". All parties involved in scholarly communication in all disciplines are deeply engaged in the yin and yang blend of exploiting network technologies to improve our products, processes, and services while avoiding the meltdown of our income from subscriptions, page charges, advertising, and other sources. Librarians and some editors are requesting publishers to demonstrate either that they have accounted for the long term preservation of our digital publications (including all the features and supplemental data that accompany the base article, chapter, or report) by deposit in digital archives operated by our companies themselves, by a trusted third party, by the libraries themselves, or by some combination of these. On top of this strategic challenge, the open access movement and individual authors are requesting or retaining the right to post their own articles on their institutional repositories, services that some librarians believe are local versions of digital archives. This paper will present a prejudiced overview of the digital archive scene in its present messy state and a forecast of what might be the next stages of development for digital archives. James Pringle: Smith, Lee, and Hirano T: How and Why to Find Authors For decades, the problem of easily finding all the works of a particular author has seemed one of the intractable issues in search. Today, research teams from an increasing number of organizations are offering solutions based on new technologies. Thomson Scientific’s experience in author disambiguation will be used to explore why finding authors is important and ways it can be achieved. Niels Weertman: Taking the guesswork out of author searching One of scientists’ most common tasks when searching for information is author-related: they want to find all articles published by a particular author, find his or her most recent article, evaluate his or her impact on a subject field, etc. However, finding articles published by an author in any A&I database has been hampered by two serious problems: an author’s name can be recorded differently in different sources and an author can share his or her name with a different author. Key to solving these problems is the disambiguation of author names - Scopus has recently launched the Author Identifier taking the guesswork out of author searching. This presentation will focus in more detail on how author identification addresses scientists’ needs, what issues Scopus has faced during this project and how we have dealt with these.
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