Citation Typing Ontology
I was happy to read David Shotton’s recent Learned Publishing article, Semantic Publishing: The Coming Revolution in scientific journal publishing, and see that he and his team have drafted a Citation...
View ArticleQR Codes and DOIs
Inspired by Google’s recent promotion of QR Codes, I thought it might be fun to experiment with encoding a CrossRef DOI and a bit of metadata into one of the critters. I’ve put a short write-up of the...
View ArticleA Christmas Reading List… with DOIs
Was outraged (outraged, I tell you) that one of my favorite online comics, PhD, didn’t include DOIs in their recent bibliography of Christmas-related citations.. So I’ve compiled them below. We care...
View ArticleDOIs and Linked Data: Some Concrete Proposals
Since last month’s threads (here, here, here and here) talking about the issues involved in making the DOI a first-class identifier for linked data applications, I’ve had the chance to actually sit...
View ArticleContent Negotiation for CrossRef DOIs
So does anybody remember the posting DOIs and Linked Data: Some Concrete Proposals? Well, we went with option “D.” From now on, DOIs, expressed as HTTP URIs, can be used with content-negotiation. Let’s...
View ArticleDataCite supporting content negotiation
In April CrossRef launched content negotiation support for its DOIs. At the time I cheekily called-out DataCite to start supporting content negotiation as well. Edward Zukowski (DataCite’s resident...
View ArticleCrossRef and DataCite unify support for HTTP content negotiation
Last year CrossRef and DataCite announced support for HTTP content negotiation for DOI names. Today, we are pleased to report further collaboration on the topic. We think it is very important that the...
View ArticlePatentCite
If you’ve ever thought that scholarly citation practice was antediluvian and perverse- you should check-out patents some day. Over the past year of so CrossRef has been working with Cambia and the The...
View ArticleDOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable...
The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI: a) http://dx.doi.org/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”: b)...
View ArticleMany Metrics. Such Data. Wow.
CrossRef Labs loves to be the last to jump on an internet trend, so what better than than to combine the Doge meme with altmetrics? Want to know how many times a CrossRef DOI is cited by the Wikipedia?...
View ArticleDOIs in Reddit
Skimming the headlines on Hacker News yesterday morning, I noticed something exciting. A dump of all the submissions to Reddit since 2006. “How many of those are DOIs?”, I thought. Reddit is a very...
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