What’s in a URI?
First off, a Happy New Year to all! A post of mine to the OpenURL list may possibly be of interest. Following up the recent W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group) Finding on “The Use of Metadata in...
View ArticleRSC launches semantic enrichment of journal articles
The RSC has gone live today with the results of Project Prospect, introducing semantic enrichment of journal articles across all our titles. I’m pretty sure we’re the first primary research publisher...
View ArticleAt Last! URIs for InChI
The info registry has now added in the InChI namespace (see registry entry here) which now means that chemical compounds identified by InChIs (IUPAC‘s International Chemical Identifiers) are...
View Articleeprintweb.org
IOP has created an instance of the arXiv repository calle eprintweb.org at http://www.eprintweb.org/. What’s the difference from arXiv? From the eprinteweb.org site – “We have focused on your...
View ArticleSir TimBL’s Testimony
Just in case anybody may not have seen this, here‘s the testimony of Sir Tim Berners-Lee yesterday before a House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Required...
View ArticlePublishing Linked Data
With these words: “There was quite some interest in Linked Data at this year’s World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007). Therefore, Richard Cyganiak, Tom Heath and I decided to write a tutorial about how to...
View ArticleDoes Size Matter?
Interesting post from Google, in which they say: “Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find...
View ArticleDistributed Usage Logging: A private channel for private data
A few months ago Crossref announced that we will be launching a new service for the community in 2016 that tracks activities around DOIs recording user content interactions. These “events” cover a...
View ArticleCrossref & the Art of Cartography: an Open Map for Scholarly Communications
In the 2015 Crossref Annual Meeting, I introduced a metaphor for the work that we do at Crossref. I re-present it here for broader discussion as this narrative continues to play a guiding role in the...
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