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Lucy Ofiesh
2024 April 26

This year's call for expressions of interest to join our board

The Crossref Nominating Committee is inviting expressions of interest to join the Board of Directors of Crossref for the term starting in January 2025. The committee will gather responses from those interested and create the slate of candidates that our membership will vote on in an election in September. Expressions of interest will be due Monday, May 27th, 2024 This is an exciting time to join the board, as we have a number of active projects underway: We are considering resourcing Crossref for a sustainable future and board members will be part of deciding any changes to our fees scheme and overseeing its implementation.

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Johanssen Obanda
2024 April 24

Common views and questions about metadata across Africa

This past year has been a captivating journey of immersion within the Crossref community, a mix of online interactions and meaningful in-person experiences. From the engaging Sustainability Research and Innovation Conference in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the impactful webinars conducted globally, this has been more than just a professional endeavour; it has been a personal exploration of collaboration, insights, and a shared commitment to pushing the boundaries of scholarly communication.

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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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Manuscript submission systems

Metadata first takes shape with author manuscripts.

Discoverability starts here

Manuscript submission systems, and the authors who use them, start metadata on its long lifecycle. Publishers’ instructions to authors and author-created metadata (such as keywords) are first captured by manuscript submission systems.

Along with other publishing service organizations such as typesetters, submission systems are a kind of service provider, and are the first step in getting content registered, often by yet another kind of service provider, hosting platforms.

Beyond bibliographic

Learn about the importance of depositing different types of metadata.

We encourage the fullest metadata possible and recognize that manuscript submission systems are among those that make this possible!

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