Joe Wass

Joe Wass

Head of Software Development

Biography

Joe Wass is Head of the Software Development team, making sure we build and run the right software for our community. He spent his first five years in Crossref Labs getting to know our broad community, with a special focus on finding citations in new places on the web, keeping tabs on the evolving activities of scholars round the world.

Topics

  • Crossref Event Data
  • altmetrics
  • Wikipedia
  • linked clinical trials
  • text and data mining

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ORCID iD

0000-0002-0840-454X

Joe Wass's Latest Blog Posts

Mending Chesterton's Fence: Open Source Decision-making

Joe Wass, Monday, Mar 18, 2024

In EngineeringPOSI

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When each line of code is written it is surrounded by a sea of context: who in the community this is for, what problem we’re trying to solve, what technical assumptions we’re making, what we already tried but didn’t work, how much coffee we’ve had today. All of these have an effect on the software we write. By the time the next person looks at that code, some of that context will have evaporated.

Renewed Persistence

Joe Wass, Saturday, Apr 1, 2023

In Engineering

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We believe in Persistent Identifiers. We believe in defence in depth. Today we’re excited to announce an upgrade to our data resilience strategy. Defence in depth means layers of security and resilience, and that means layers of backups. For some years now, our last line of defence has been a reliable, tried-and-tested technology. One that’s been around for a while. Yes, I’m talking about the humble 5¼ inch floppy disk.

What's that DOI?

Joe Wass, Monday, Jan 21, 2019

In Event DataPidapalooza

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This is a long overdue followup to 2016’s “URLs and DOIs: a complicated relationship”. Like that post, this accompanies my talk at PIDapalooza, the festival of open persistent identifiers). I don’t think I need to give a spoiler warning when I tell you that it’s still complicated. But this post presents some vocabulary to describe exactly how complicated it is. Event Data has been up and running and collecting data for a couple of years now, but this post describes changes we made toward the end of 2018.

Hear this, real insight into the inner workings of Crossref

Joe Wass, Sunday, Apr 1, 2018

In Member BriefingEvent DataLaunch

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You want to hear more from us. We hear you. We’ve spent the past year building Crossref Event Data, and hope to launch very soon. Building a new piece of infrastructure from scratch has been an exciting project, and we’ve taken the opportunity to incorporate as much feedback from the community as possible. We’d like to take a moment to share some of the suggestions we had, and how we’ve acted on them.

Bridging Identifiers at PIDapalooza

Hello from sunny Girona! I’m heading to PIDapalooza, the Persistent Identifier festival, as it returns for its second year. It’s all about to kick off. One of the themes this year is “bridging worlds”: how to bring together different communities and the identifiers they use. Something I really enjoyed about PIDapalooza last year was the variety of people who came. We heard about some “traditional” identifier systems (at least, it seems that way to us): DOIs for publications, DOIs for datasets, ORCIDs for researchers.

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