123 springer & crossref crossref members meeting november 14, 2000 howard ratner
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http://link.springer-ny.comhttp://link.springer.de
Springer & CrossRefCrossRef Members Meeting
November 14, 2000
Howard Ratner
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LINK – Quick Overview
Springer e-product service Mirror Sites: NY & Heidelberg Full text delivery
480+ Journals 8+ Book Series
Electronic Supplementary Materials Online First (article-based publishing) Verity Search – Easy, Expert, DOI Alerting Services Reference Links
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Connections to LINK
Agencies / Aggregators Abstracting & Indexing Services Document Delivery Services Hosts LINK Search Portals Search Engines (AltaVista, Google,
Yahoo) Publishers / CrossRef
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Reference Links from LINK
LINK journalsPubMedCAS ChemPortAMS Math Reviews Infotrieve (pending)OSTI PubScience (pending)Zentralblatt MATH (pending)60+ publishers – CrossRef
Extensible Reference Linking Database!
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LINK Reference Links
Life Science & Medical HTML journals link-enabled to PubMed since 1997
Astronomy & Astrophysics journal linksto NASA in 1998
Life Science & Medical HTML journals added CrossRef links in 2000
Link-enable PDF-only journals with HTML reference sections in 2001
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Springer & CrossRef
Chair of CrossRef proof-of-concept prototype: DOI-X (1998-1999)
Board MemberFounding MemberTechnical Working Group Member
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Springer CrossRef Metadata DepositsOver 107,000 records deposited All LINK journalsExtraction / Processing /
Registration scripts run by Digital Asset Center Registers metadata in CrossRef,
PubMed, etc.DOIs registered for all articles
Quality Check
Metadata Deposits
CrossRef PubMed
Digital Asset Center (DAC)
Transformation Engine
PubMedMetadata Format
CrossRefMetadata Format
Production
SGML Article Header Metadata
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New Springer Reference Linking
Current: Static reference linking Identifiers queried and inserted only once
-- at the time of online publicationFuture: SVRef - Dynamic reference linking
Identifiers are updated/maintained in database
Linked reference sections generated on the fly
Multiple link targets: CrossRef, PubMed, CAS, Zentralblatt, AMS, etc.
IdentifiersDOI/PMID
Identifier Lookup
CrossRef PubMed
Digital Asset Center (DAC)
SVRef Database
PubMedQuery Format
CrossRefQuery Format
Production
XML Tails Data(Reference Section)
LINK System
End User
SVRef Database
Target Article
1. User Gets Article
2. User Clicks “References” Link
3. Linked Reference Section- generated dynamically
4. User Follows Links
Link Resolution – SVRef System
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Conclusions
CrossRef/IDF Improve 10%-30% CrossRef match rate
DOIs need to address mirror sites
Better error reporting
Springer
Committed to reference linking
Consider publishing more legacy issues
Consider more document delivery options
Strengthen Digital Asset Center
Dynamic Reference Linking