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Vanessa Fairhurst
2021 February 11

Discuss all things metadata in our new community forum

TL;DR: We have a Community Forum (yay!), you can come and join it here: community.crossref.org. Community is fundamental to us at Crossref, we wouldn’t be where we are or achieve the great things we do without the involvement of you, our diverse and engaged members and users. Crossref was founded as a collaboration of publishers with the shared goal of making links between research outputs easier, building a foundational infrastructure making research easier to find, cite, link, assess, and re-use.

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Martyn Rittman
2021 February 01

Event Data: A Plan of Action

Event Data uncovers links between Crossref-registered DOIs and diverse places where they are mentioned across the internet. Whereas a citation links one research article to another, events are a way to create links to locations such as news articles, data sets, Wikipedia entries, and social media mentions. We’ve collected events for several years and make them openly available via an API for anyone to access, as well as creating open logs of how we found each event.

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Jennifer Kemp
2021 January 19

New public data file: 120+ million metadata records

2020 wasn’t all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available––and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)––we’ve decided to release an updated file. This will provide a more efficient way to get such a large volume of records. The file (JSON records, 102.6GB) is now available, with thanks once again to Academic Torrents.

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Crossref
2020 December 16

A tribute to our Kirsty

Our colleague and friend, Kirsty Meddings, passed away peacefully on 10th December at home with her family, after a sudden and aggressive cancer. She was a huge part of Crossref, our culture, and our lives for the last twelve years. Kirsty Meddings is a name that almost everyone in scholarly publishing knows; she was part of a generation of Oxford women in publishing technology who have progressed through the industry, adapted to its changes, spotted new opportunities, and supported each other throughout.

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Event Data enters Beta

Jennifer Kemp

Jennifer Kemp – 2017 July 05

In Event DataIdentifiersCitationCollaborationDataCiteWikipediaBibliometrics

We’ve been talking about it at events, blogging about it on our site, living it, breathing it, and even sometimes dreaming about it, and now we are delighted to announce that Crossref Event Data has entered Beta.

Crossref and colleagues in South Korea

Ginny Hendricks

Ginny Hendricks – 2017 June 30

In ORCIDDataCiteCrossref LIVECommunityInfrastructureCollaborationEducation

Connecting Crossref, ORCID, DataCite, and our communities

Q: What do you get if you combine our three organisations for a week to catch up with our Korean community - publishers, librarians, universities, researchers, and service providers? A: Two events, plenty of meetings, great conversations and feedback, fabulous Korean hospitality, and a little jet-lag.

The OI Project gets underway planning an open organization identifier registry

Ed Pentz

Ed Pentz – 2017 March 28

In CollaborationDataCiteORCIDCDLIdentifiersOrganization IdentifierCommunityInfrastructureCollaboration

At the end of October 2016, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID reported on collaboration in the area of organization identifiers. We issued three papers for community comment and after input we subsequently announced the formation of The OI Project, along with a call for expressions of interest from people interested in serving on the working group.

The Organization Identifier Project: a way forward

Ed Pentz

Ed Pentz – 2016 October 31

In DataCiteORCIDCDLOrganization IdentifierRequest for Community CommentCommunityCollaborationPersistenceIdentifiers

The scholarly communications sector has built and adopted a series of open identifier and metadata infrastructure systems to great success.  Content identifiers (through Crossref and DataCite) and contributor identifiers (through ORCID) have become foundational infrastructure to the industry.  

Crossref’s Annual Meeting is now Crossref LIVE16

Crossref

April Ondis, Ginny Hendricks – 2016 September 02

In Crossref LIVEAnnual MeetingCommunityCollaboration

Everyone is invited to our free annual event this 1-2 November in London. (Register here)! In years past, only Crossref members typically attended the [Crossref Annual Meeting](/crossref-live-annual). This year, we looked at the event with new eyes. We realized that we’d have even richer conversations, more creative energy, and the meeting would be even better for our members if we could rally the entire community together. So we decided to re-develop our annual event from the ground-up.

Announcing PIDapalooza - a festival of identifiers

Ginny Hendricks

Ginny Hendricks – 2016 August 30

In MeetingsDataCiteORCIDCDLCollaborationPIDapaloozaPersistenceIdentifiers

The buzz is building around PIDapalooza - the first open festival of scholarly research persistent identifiers (PID), to be held at the Radisson Blu Saga Hotel Reykjavikon November 9-10, 2016. PIDapalooza will bring together creators and users of PIDs from around the world to shape the future PID landscape through the development of tools and services for the research community. PIDs support proper attribution and credit, promote collaboration and reuse, enable reproducibility of findings, foster faster and more efficient progress, and facilitate effective sharing, dissemination, and linking of scholarly works.

2016 upcoming events - we’re out and about!

Rosa Clark

Rosa Clark – 2016 July 06

In MeetingsCommunityCollaboration

Check out the events below where Crossref will attend or present in 2016. We have been busy over the past few months, and we have more planned for the rest of year. If we will be at a place near you, please come see us (and support these organizations and events)! Upcoming Events SHARE Community Meeting, July 11-14, Charlottesville, VA, USA Crossref Outreach Day - July 19-21 - Seoul, South Korea

Outreach Day DC. Next Up? You Tell Us

Jennifer Kemp

Jennifer Kemp – 2016 June 28

In CollaborationCrossref LIVEMetadataOutreachCommunity

Rallying the community is a key Crossref role. Sometimes this means collaborating on new initiatives but it is also an ongoing process, a cornerstone of our outreach efforts. Part of rallying the community is bringing people together, literally, in a series of outreach days around the globe. It means we encourage dialog with us and among members and non-publisher affiliates. We want to hear from the community and we hope to facilitate conversations in it.

Crossref Event Data: early preview now available

Madeleine Watson

Madeleine Watson – 2016 April 18

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Crossref Event Data logo

Test out the early preview of Event Data while we continue to develop it. Share your thoughts. And be warned: we may break a few eggs from time to time!

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Chicken by anbileru adaleru from the The Noun Project

Want to discover which research works are being shared, liked and commented on? What about the number of times a scholarly item is referenced? Starting today, you can whet your appetite with an early preview of the forthcoming Crossref Event Data service. We invite you to start exploring the activity of DOIs as they permeate and interact with the world after publication.

Event Data: open for your interpretation

Madeleine Watson

Madeleine Watson – 2016 February 25

In CollaborationDataEvent DataIdentifiersMetadata

What happens to a research work outside of the formal literature? That’s what Event Data will aim to answer when the service launches later this year. Following the successful DOI Event Tracker pilot in Spring 2014, development has been underway to build our new service, newly re-named Crossref Event Data. It’s an open data service that registers online activity (specifically, events) associated with Crossref metadata. Event Data will collect and store a record of any activity surrounding a research work from a defined set of web sources.
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