Nathan,
The agreement you are referring to below doesn't apply to services that
may emerge from this RFP initiative -- CrossRef hasn't drafted any such
agreement yet, but the intention is in fact to allow display of CrossRef
metadata in the new services. The reason for the change is that
participating publishers can opt out any metadata sharing partnership if
they like, on a case by case basis. So far, with the commercial metadata
sharing partnerships we have established, very few publishers have opted
out, to give you some indication. Please let me know if you have other
questions.
Thanks,
Amy
Nathan Vack wrote:
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
