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Martin Eve
2024 April 03

Testing times

One of the challenges that we face in Labs and Research at Crossref is that, as we prototype various tools, we need the community to be able to test them. Often, this involves asking for deposit to a different endpoint or changing the way that a platform works to incorporate a prototype. The problem is that our community is hugely varied in its technical capacity and level of ability when it comes to modifying their platform.

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Joe Wass
2024 March 18

Mending Chesterton's Fence: Open Source Decision-making

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.

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Martin Eve
2024 March 15

Credential Checking at Crossref

It turns out that one of the things that is really difficult at Crossref is checking whether a set of Crossref credentials has permission to act on a specific DOI prefix. This is the result of many legacy systems storing various mappings in various different software components, from our Content System through to our CRM. To this end, I wrote a basic application, credcheck, that will allow you to test a Crossref credential against an API.

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Patrick Polischuk
2024 March 13

Subject codes, incomplete and unreliable, have got to go

Subject classifications have been available via the REST API for many years but have not been complete or reliable from the start and will soon be deprecated. dfdfd The subject metadata element was born out of a Labs experiment intended to enrich the metadata returned via Crossref Metadata Search with All Subject Journal Classification codes from Scopus. This feature was developed when the REST API was still fairly new, and we now recognize that the initial implementation worked its way into the service prematurely.

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Metadata User Working Group

Overview

Despite a large, international and growing community of users, the particulars of metadata user workflows are still too often unclear or undocumented. Questions of efficiencies, thresholds, how records and elements are evaluated for usefulness and how multiple integrations are managed will be explored as a group, through a series of calls and asynchronous work. The group is expected to run through 2022.

Goals

  • Document workflows
  • Highlight the efforts of metadata users in enabling discovery/discoverability
  • Determine directions for improved engagement
  • Inform approaches to product planning

Participants

The group is a mix of service subscribers using different interfaces:

  • Achraf Azhar, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)
  • Satam Choudhury, HighWire Press
  • Nees van Eck, CWTS-Leiden University
  • Bethany Harris, Jisc
  • Ajay Kumar, Nova Techset
  • David Levy, Pubmill
  • Bruno Ohana, biologit
  • Michael Parkin, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • Axton Pitt, Litmaps
  • Dave Schott, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
  • Stephan Stahlschmidt, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

Once concluded, results of the discussions will be shared with the community.

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