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Dominika Tkaczyk
2024 August 28

The myth of perfect metadata matching

In our previous instalments of the blog series about matching (see part 1 and part 2), we explained what metadata matching is, why it is important and described its basic terminology. In this entry, we will discuss a few common beliefs about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders. Spoiler alert: we are calling them myths because these beliefs are not true! Read on to learn why.

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Lena Stoll
2024 July 25

Re-introducing Participation Reports to encourage best practices in open metadata

We’ve just released an update to our participation report, which provides a view for our members into how they are each working towards best practices in open metadata. Prompted by some of the signatories and organizers of the Barcelona Declaration, which Crossref supports, and with the help of our friends at CWTS Leiden, we have fast-tracked the work to include an updated set of metadata best practices in participation reports for our members.

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Patricia Feeney
2024 July 22

Metadata schema development plans

It’s been a while, here’s a metadata update and request for feedback In Spring 2023 we sent out a survey to our community with a goal of assessing what our priorities for metadata development should be - what projects are our community ready to support? Where is the greatest need? What are the roadblocks? The intention was to help prioritize our metadata development work. There’s a lot we want to do, a lot our community needs from us, but we really want to make sure we’re focusing on the projects that will have the most immediate impact for now.

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Martyn Rittman
2024 July 02

Crossmark community consultation: What did we learn?

In the first half of this year we’ve been talking to our community about post-publication changes and Crossmark. When a piece of research is published it isn’t the end of the journey—it is read, reused, and sometimes modified. That’s why we run Crossmark, as a way to provide notifications of important changes to research made after publication. Readers can see if the research they are looking at has updates by clicking the Crossmark logo.

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Crossref annual meeting and board election 2024

SAVE THE DATE

Join us online on October 29, 2024 for a full day conference-style meeting starinag at 8:00 AM UTC (coordinated universal time)!

This event will include progress reports on key programs, updates on metadata schema, demos, presentations from the Crossref community, and discussions on POSI 2.0.

Full agenda to follow.

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