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We’ll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020

Ginny Hendricks, Helena Cousijn, Maria Gould, Alice Meadows, Stephanie Harley – 2019 August 18

In PidapaloozaPersistenceIdentifiersCollaborationCommunityMeetings

The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It’s 163 days to go till our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belem Cultural Center in Lisbon, Portugal. Your friendly neighborhood PIDapalooza Planning Committee—Helena Cousijn (DataCite), Maria Gould (CDL), Stephanie Harley (ORCID), Alice Meadows (ORCID), and I—are already hard at work making sure it’s the best one so far!

Big things have small beginnings: the growth of the Open Funder Registry

Kirsty Meddings – 2019 July 21

In CollaborationResearch FundersIdentifiersMetadata

The Open Funder Registry plays a critical role in making sure that our members correctly identify the funding sources behind the research that they are publishing. It addresses a similar problem to the one that led to the creation of ORCID: researchers’ names are hard to disambiguate and are rarely unique; they get abbreviated, have spelling variations and change over time. The same is true of organizations. You don’t have to read all that many papers to see authors acknowledge funding from the US National Institutes of Health as NIH, National Institutes for Health, National Institute of Health, etc.

Quarterly deposit invoices: avoiding surprises

Isaac Farley – 2019 April 10

In Content RegistrationInvoicesMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

Whenever we send out our quarterly deposit invoices, we receive queries from members who have registered a lot of backlist content, but have been charged at the current year’s rate. As the invoices for the first quarter of 2019 have recently hit your inboxes, I thought I’d provide a timely reminder about this in case you spot this problem on your invoice.

Before, during, and after - a journey through title transfers

Isaac Farley – 2019 February 25

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

In January, I wrote about how we’ve simplified the journal title transfer process using our new Metadata Manager tool. For those disposing publishers looking for an easy, do-it-yourself option for transferring ownership of your journal, I suggest you review that blog post. But, whether you choose to process the transfer yourself via Metadata Manager or need some help from Paul, Shayn, or myself, there’s more to a transfer than just the click of a transfer button or the submission of an email to support@crossref.org, as I’m sure those of you who have been through a title transfer can attest.

Work through your PID problems on the PID Forum

Helena Cousijn, Rachael Lammey, Alice Meadows – 2019 February 21

In IdentifiersInfrastructureCollaborationCommunity

As self-confessed PID nerds, we’re big fans of a persistent identifier. However, we’re also conscious that the uptake and use of PIDs isn’t a done deal, and there are things that challenge how broadly these are adopted by the community. At PIDapalooza (an annual festival of PIDs) in January, ORCID, DataCite and Crossref ran an interactive session to chat about the cool things that PIDs allow us to do, what’s working well and, just as importantly, what isn’t, so that we can find ways to improve and approaches that work.

ROR announces the first Org ID prototype

Maria Gould, Ginny Hendricks – 2019 February 10

In IdentifiersOrganization IdentifierInfrastructureCollaborationCommunity

What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, and we showcased the initial prototypes at PIDapalooza in Dublin. We’re energized by the positive reception and response we’ve received and we wanted to take a moment to share information with the community.

Request for feedback on grant identifier metadata

Patricia Feeney – 2019 February 07

In IdentifiersGrantsResearch FundersPersistence

We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is “they probably should not be called grant identifiers”. Research support extends beyond monetary grants and awards, but our end goal is to make grants easy to cite, track, and identify, and ‘Grant ID’ resonates in a way other terms do not. The truth is in the metadata, and we intend to collect (and our funder friends are prepared to provide) information about a number of funding types.

What can often change, but always stays the same?

Isaac Farley – 2019 January 24

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

Hello. Isaac here again to talk about what you can tell just by looking at the prefix of a DOI. Also, as we get a lot of title transfers at this time of year, I thought I’d clarify the difference between a title transfer and a prefix transfer, and the impact of each.

Improved processes, and more via Metadata Manager

Shayn Smulyan – 2019 January 17

In Metadata ManagerContent RegistrationCitationsIdentifiers

Hi, Crossref blog-readers. I’m Shayn, from Crossref’s support team. I’ve been fielding member questions about how to effectively deposit metadata and register content (among other things) for the past three years. In this post, I’ll take you through some of the improvements that Metadata Manager provides to those who currently use the Web Deposit form.

Resolutions 2019: Journal Title Transfers = Metadata Manager

Isaac Farley – 2019 January 03

In Content RegistrationTitle TransfersMembershipMetadataIdentifiers

When you thought about your resolutions for 2019, Crossref probably didn’t cross your mind—but, maybe it should have…

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We’ll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020

Big things have small beginnings: the growth of the Open Funder Registry

Quarterly deposit invoices: avoiding surprises

Before, during, and after - a journey through title transfers

Work through your PID problems on the PID Forum

ROR announces the first Org ID prototype

Request for feedback on grant identifier metadata

What can often change, but always stays the same?

Improved processes, and more via Metadata Manager

Resolutions 2019: Journal Title Transfers = Metadata Manager

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