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Ginny Hendricks
2024 December 12

A progress update and a renewed commitment to community

Looking back over 2024, we wanted to reflect on where we are in meeting our goals, and report on the progress and plans that affect you - our community of 21,000 organisational members as well as the vast number of research initiatives and scientific bodies that rely on Crossref metadata. In this post, we will give an update on our roadmap, including what is completed, underway, and up next, and a bit about what’s paused and why.

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Rosa Morais Clark
2024 December 09

A summary of our Annual Meeting

The Crossref2024 annual meeting gathered our community for a packed agenda of updates, demos, and lively discussions on advancing our shared goals. The day was filled with insights and energy, from practical demos of Crossref’s latest API features to community reflections on the Research Nexus initiative and the Board elections. Our Board elections are always the focal point of the Annual Meeting. We want to start reflecting on the day by congratulating our newly elected board members: Katharina Rieck from Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Lisa Schiff from California Digital Library, Aaron Wood from American Psychological Association, and Amanda Ward from Taylor and Francis, who will officially join (and re-join) in January 2025.

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Lucy Ofiesh
2024 December 07

2024 POSI audit

Background The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) provides a set of guidelines for operating open infrastructure in service to the scholarly community. It sets out 16 points to ensure that the infrastructure on which the scholarly and research communities rely is openly governed, sustainable, and replicable. Each POSI adopter regularly reviews progress, conducts periodic audits, and self-reports how they’re working towards each of the principles. In 2020, Crossref’s board voted to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure, and we completed our first self-audit.

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Ed Pentz
2024 December 05

Summary of the environmental impact of Crossref

In June 2022, we wrote a blog post “Rethinking staff travel, meetings, and events” outlining our new approach to staff travel, meetings, and events with the goal of not going back to ‘normal’ after the pandemic. We took into account three key areas: The environment and climate change Inclusion Work/life balance We are aware that many of our members are also interested in minimizing their impacts on the environment, and we are overdue for an update on meeting our own commitments, so here goes our summary for the year 2023!

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How can I use Event Data?

The main way to access events created by Event Data is via the API, which returns data in JSON format. For example, the following finds the first 500 events:

https://0-api-eventdata-crossref-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/v1/events?rows=500

It is not required, but we recommend that you include your email address. We will not share this information, but can use it to contact you if a problem arises, for example:

https://0-api-eventdata-crossref-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/v1/events?mailto=anon@test.com&rows=500

Full documentation for the API is available. Briefly, the results can be filtered by various parameters based on time, source, and object.

The results can also include facets of the data: summary counts of a certain characteristic. For example, to see the 10 news websites that have produced the most events, use the query:

https://0-api-eventdata-crossref-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/v1/events?rows=0&source=newsfeed&facet=subj-id.domain:10

If you want to make regular and extensive use of the API, we highly recommend reading the full documentation.

Developers are welcome to build applications based on Event Data, however Crossref doesn’t offer a dashboard or plugin to provide Event Data results. Some Jupyter notebooks are available that demonstrate possible uses of Event Data, including accessing all events about a single DOI.

What is the current status of Event Data?

The Crossref status page shows stability of the Event Data service and query response times. You can also track the latest development tasks.

A list of the current agents is available on our Gitlab pages.

Who uses Event Data?

There are a large number of uses for Event Data and it is intended as a free and transparent data source for third parties. Some examples of how the data can be used are the following:

  • Building links between scholarly outputs, such as Scholix
  • Tracking the impact of research outputs, such as HIRMEOS from OPERAS; Atypon; PaperBuzz
  • Input for scholarly information services, such as H1insights

Page owner: Martyn Rittman   |   Last updated 2020-October-06