Jennifer Kemp talks about using metadata: who, how and why. Presented at Crossref LIVE local Hannover, June 27th 2018.

1. Using
metadata:
Who, how and
why
LIVE Hannover 27 June 2018
Jennifer Kemp
Head of Business Development
@SaysJKemp

3. By the numbers

4. Members —> Crossref
Basic metadata: titles; author names; ISSNs/
ISBNs, abstracts, references
Funding Information, Funder identifiers,
award numbers
License Information, License URIs
Full-text URIs (e.g. TDM)
Crossmark: updates, retractions, corrections
ORCID iDs
Recently: Peer Review reports, relations
Soon… Organization IDs, Grant IDs, etc…

6. Crossref metadata for
machines & humans

7. Metadata API Plus: New in 2018
JSON
REST API*
● Metadata ‘snapshots’
● Metadata normalized
across interfaces
● Priority support
● Guaranteed uptime
● Higher rate limit
● Notifications
● *Also has a free
public interface
XML
OAI-PMH

10. Web searches

11. What do people
do with Crossref
metadata?

12. Metadata for discoverability
• ORCID, Funder ID & Award No.
• Abstracts
• References
• Links to data & software
• Links to preprints
• Links to conference papers and posters
• Links to research resource IDs (identifiers for assays, materials, etc.)
• Links to post-publication events (reviews, comments & discussions,
bookmarks, shares, recommendations, references, media coverage)
• Access indicators (publication license for text & data mining,
machine mining URLs)

13. Metadata for research integrity
• Updates (corrections, retraction, update, expressions of
concern, etc.)
• Peer review history, type, assets
• Funding data (COI)
• ORCIDs (authors, reviewers, editors, etc.)
• Affiliation (authors, reviewers, editors, etc.)
• License data (full text, abstract, etc.)

14. Metadata for reproducibility
• Updates (corrections, retraction, update, expressions of concern,
etc.)
• Funding data (COI) & ORCIDs (authors, reviewers, editors, etc.)
• License data (full text, abstract, etc.)
• Links to peer review assets
• Links to underlying data & software
• Links to protocols
• Links to versions
• Links to videos/audio and other supporting information
• Links to research resource IDs (identifiers for assays, materials, etc.)
• Links to clinical trial registry and trial number

15. Metadata for reporting and assessment
• ORCID, Funder ID, Grant ID & Award No.
• Abstracts
• References
• Peer review description & assets
• Links to data & software
• Links to preprints
• Links to conference papers and posters
• Links to research resource IDs (identifiers for assays, materials, etc.)
• Links to post-publication events (reviews, comments & discussions,
bookmarks, shares, recommendations, references, media coverage)
• Access indicators (publication license for text & data mining, machine
mining URLs)

16. “We would love to see rights-
declaration metadata. This is
invaluable to know whether it’s public
domain or copyrighted, and any
constraints for use.”
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale,
Digital data librarian in Research Data and GIS Services at
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries and
visiting program office for SHARE

17. A free open dataset built on the Centre for Open
Science (COS) technology
Integrates Crossref metadata to join other sources
such as DataONE, 50+ library institutional
repositories.

18. Who else uses
Crossref metadata?

19. • Funders
• Institutions
• Archives & repositories
• Research councils
• Publishing vendors
• Metrics providers
• Reference manager systems
• Lab & diagnostics suppliers
• PID providers, registration agencies
Metadata reaches:
• Data centres
• Professional networks
• Patent offices
• Indexing services
• Sharing platforms
• Data analytics systems
• Literature discovery services
• Educational tools

20. funders and funding tracking tools

22. author profiling tools

24. • Find out more at https://i4oc.org
• Find out which members’ references are open: https://
www.crossref.org/reports/members-with-open-references/
• Contact support@crossref.org with any queries.

25. CHORUS

27. Crossref metadata helps research
to be found, cited, linked-to,
assessed, and re-used

28. Events
surrounding it ffff
Metadata:
Literature Associated
research outputs
Associated
research entities

29. Thank you!
jkemp@crossref.org
@SaysJkemp