CrossTech

Hadn't really noticed before but was fairly gobsmacked by this notice I just saw on the DOI® Handbook:

**Please note that Chapter 9, Operating Procedures is for Registration Agency personnel only.**

DOI® Handbook
doi:10.1000/182
http://www.doi.org/hb.html

And, indeed, the Handbook's TOC only reconfirms this:

9 Operating procedures*

*The RA password is required for viewing Chapter 9.

9.1 Registering a DOI name with associated metadata
9.2 Prefix assignment
9.3 Transferring DOI names from one Registrant to another
9.4 Handle System® policies and procedures
9.4.1 Overview
9.4.2 Policies and Procedures
9.4.3 Requirements for Administrators of Resolution Services
9.4.4 Protocols and Interfaces
9.5 DOI® System error messages

That's spooky. A book with a hidden chapter. I really don't like that at all. Especially on a book aiming to provide general information and guidance. Seems to be that if that information needs to be kept private to RA's then it has no business rubbing shoulders with public information. I would suggest that the material be opened up or else moved out. Makes me feel so second class.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 09:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Just a couple comments about CrossTech:

1. Shouldn't it (or couldn't it) be linked to from the CrossRef home page? (This is a public read list after all and so should be made more widely available.) Maybe at some point could be announced on some lists of interest.

2. Would be very nice to (at least) have a count of membership. I would also like to canvas opinions about making names of the membership public. What do others think about this?

At the end of the day though this facility needs to be driven, otherise it will end up being just another pier over the water (i.e. a 'disappointed bridge' And sorry for cribbing again from JAJ).

Posted by Tony Hammond at 06:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

At last week's PRISM Face to Face meeting at Time Inc. (NY), Linda Burman raised the question of how (STM) publishers were using PRISM beyond RSS. I gave a brief presentation of how we at Nature were using PRISM: RSS (well you all know about that), Connotea (our social bookmarking tool), SRU (Search/Retrieve by URL), and OTMI (Open Text Mining Interface - which we'll shortly be making available for wider comment). Be interested to learn if anyone else is using PRISM in other ways.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 05:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the iSpecies blog Rod Page describes how he extracts DOIs from Google Scholar results - he does use the CrossRef OpenURL interface and Connotea to get DOIs too. He also says "DOIs are pretty cool" which is good!

On another blog post to SemAnt Page describes how he uses LSIDs and DOIs for Ant literature.

It seems that there is more and more of this type of use of the DOI so its great we have the OpenURL interface. Could the type of stuff that Page is doing be helped by publishers embedding metadata in their HTML pages? This could include licensing info and information for search engine crawlers.

Continue reading "Embedding standardized metadata in HTML" »

Posted by Ed Pentz at 04:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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Posted by Ed Pentz at 01:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)