Geoffrey Bilder, Jonathan Rees, Henry Thompson – 2018 April 24
Crossref has decided to change the HTTP redirect code used by our DOIs from 303
back to the more commonly used 302
. Our implementation of 303 redirects back in 2010 was based on recommended best practice for supporting linked data identifiers. Unfortunately, very few other parties have adopted this practice.
In the 2015 Crossref Annual Meeting, I introduced a metaphor for the work that we do at Crossref. I re-present it here for broader discussion as this narrative continues to play a guiding role in the development of products and services this year.
At Crossref, we make research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess through DOIs. Publishers register their publications and deposit metadata through a variety of channels (XML, CSV, PDF, manual entry), which we process and transform into Crossref XML for inclusion into our corpus. This data infrastructure which makes possible scholarly communications without restrictions on publisher, subject area, geography, etc. is far more than a reference list, index or directory.
Publishers, researchers, funders, institutions and technology providers are all interested in better understanding how scholarly research is used. Scholarly content has always been discussed by scholars outside the formal literature and by others beyond the academic community. We need a way to monitor and distribute this valuable information.
We're having a PID party - and you're invited!
2019 December 12
A Journey of a Crossref Ambassador in Latin America
2019 December 11
Introducing our new Director of Finance & Operations
2019 December 09
Proposed schema changes - have your say
2019 December 04