From the license: a. The Library may retrieve DOIs and metadata by batch or one at a time. The Library may use retrieved DOIs and metadata to make persistent links to full-text works online, to make link resolvers function better and clean up its own indices, abstracts and record locators, the Library may cache the DOIs and incorporate DOIs into their content and library systems. The Library may use the DOIs and metadata for scholarly, research, educational, personal or non- commercial purposes.
b. Any other use of metadata is prohibited. For example, the Library may not, and may not permit others to, use metadata to create tables of contents, abstracts or indices. The Library also may not cache metadata (except temporarily during retrieval and use in a link resolver; it may, however, cache DOIs). For avoidance of doubt, the Library may not, and may not permit others to, redistribute, copy, print, archive, backup, reserve or loan any of the metadata (except incidentally where DOIs and metadata have been incorporated into the Library's content and/or systems.) Thanks to Eric Larson for actually reading it before we wrote one of these. If you're thinking about writing one of these, remember: you can't make anything public. Yawn. -Nate UW - Madison On Jun 13, 2007, at 4:25 AM, Amy Brand wrote:
RFP *REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: INNOVATIVE USES OF CROSSREF METADATA *CrossRef is now accepting proposals for the most original and promising use of CrossRef's article-level metadata as part of a scholarly research/authoring tool or related library service. *_Free access _*to participating publishers' metadata and DOIs will be granted to the researcher or librarian whose proposal is selected. */DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:/ _July 15, 2007 _**/WHAT TO SUBMIT: / **1)* *A short but thorough description of the service you would like to create using the CrossRef metadata, including estimated implementation time **2)* *Links to software/services/protocols/standards that you may have implemented in the past **3)* *Your CV **/TO WHOM: /*Amy Brand, PhD, Director of Business & Product Development email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By submitting a proposal, you agree to any publicity about the winning project that CrossRef may wish to pursue. *_BACKGROUND ON CROSSREF METADATA AND WEB SERVICES _ *CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef helps connect users to primary research content by enabling publishers to work collectively. Our citation-linking network today covers over 27 million articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers. CrossRef Web Services, or CWS, offers an easy-to-use suite of tools for authorized partners to collect metadata on a cross-publisher basis to streamline their own crawling, indexing, and linking services. One way to access the 27 million+ metadata records now registered in CrossRef is via our OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface. The CrossRef OAI-PMH repository interface serves as the central point for the distribution of metadata from participating publishers, utilizing a robust and widely adopted technology targeted at consumers of large quantities of metadata. Access to the CrossRef's metadata repository is controlled by IP authentication and can be tailored to provide specific content from select publishers to each authorized recipient. The metadata in CrossRef's database consists of basic bibliographic information for each item, including author(s), title, journal name, ISSN, volume, issue, page, and DOI-URL pair. Here are links to some sample CWS metadata: <http://www.crossref.org/oai-handler_sample.xml>, <http://www.crossref.org/oai-pmh_sample2.xml>. Our data repository is extensive but highly variable in quality from publisher to publisher. We have recently begun to take measures to ensure higher quality metadata. Any suggestions you may have regarding how best to achieve a higher level of data quality and consistency, as part of your proposal or otherwise, would be greatly appreciated. Different but similarly basic metadata is collected for other types of content. In addition, many publishers now also deposit references as part of their metadata. *CONTACT: *Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any questions you may have about CrossRef Web Services or this RFP. http://www.crossref.org/03libraries/RFP_CrossRef_metadata.html
