2025 June 17
Evolving the preprint evaluation world with Sciety
This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife.
Warnings, Caveats and Weasel Words
Most of the experiments linked to here are running on R&D equipment in a non-production environment. They may disappear without warning and/or perform erratically. If one of them isn’t working for some reason, come back later and try again.
The idea is to create a mechanism that would allow Crossref publishers to record InChIs in their submitted Crossref metadata. This, in turn, would allow us to provide a service that would allow users to:
Similar services could, conceivably, be provided for other types of semantic metadata.
The following is a demonstrator of what an DOI2InChI lookup service might look like. Please note that the XML representation of the results is very basic and is not best-practice for linked-data.
The demonstrator currently only holds DOIs and InChIs for a few publishers. A summary of the contents of the database can be found on the status page
http://inchi.crossref.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/status
A list of all the Crossref DOIs that contain InChIs can be seen here:
http://inchi.crossref.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/dois
A list of all the InChIs that have been registered with Crossref can be seen here:
http://inchi.crossref.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/inchis
The system provides the following API calls:
Return all the DOIs that have been registered with a given InChI
http://inchi.crossref.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/dois/InChI=1S/C4H6O2/c1-3-6-4(2)5/h3H,1H2,2H3
Return all the InChIs that have been registered for a given DOI
http://inchi.crossref.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/inchis/10.1038/nchem.215