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Stewart Houten

Stewart has extensive experience with various frameworks, coding languages, automation development, and site monitoring. He leads our infrastructure services team and is primarily responsible for Crossref’s infrastructure services.

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Rebalancing our REST API traffic

Since we first launched our REST API around 2013 as a Labs project, it has evolved well beyond a prototype into arguably Crossref’s most visible and valuable service. It is the result of 20,000 organisations around the world that have worked for many years to curate and share metadata about their various resources, from research grants to research articles and other component inputs and outputs of research. The REST API is relied on by a large part of the research information community and beyond, seeing around 1.