Transcript Nature Publishing Group & CrossRef Reference Linking

NPG Case Study:
CrossRef Depositing
& Implementation
Howard Ratner
CTO, Nature Publishing Group
December 2001
NPG Publishing
Program
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NPG: Nature Journals Division (14)
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NPG: Specialist Journals Division (28)
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Nature Magazine (Weekly)
Nature Research Journals
Nature Reviews Journals
Oncogene, British Dental Journal,
Cancer Gene Therapy, etc.
NPG: Reference Division (3+)
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
Timeline
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Winter 1999
Helps found CrossRef
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Spring 2000
Begins reference linking
programming/testing
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December 2000
Deposits/queries/posts/links
- nature only
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January 2001
Deposits/queries/posts/links
- all nature-branded journals
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March 2001
Queries/posts links
- EAA & ELS reference products
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July 2001
Launches Advance Online
Publication (AOP) Program
Reference Linking Program
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The Deposit
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The Query
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Issue-based
AOP-based
Initial Posting
Updates
The User Experience
The Deposit
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2a
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Issue Post Date
(Weekly/Monthly)
Quark
Conversion
(supplier)
Production
Database
3B2
Extraction
(supplier)
L
R
Full Text
SGML
Transform
SGML
(Content
Explorer)
CrossRef
Deposit Batch
File
DOI Handle
I/U
O
Upload to
D
deposit.crossref.org M
eta
(Content Explorer)
da
ta
CrossRef
MDDB
2b
AOP Post Date
(Weekly)
DOI/URL pair for
immediate deposit
Transform
SGML
(Content
Explorer)
Handle
Deposit File
Upload to Handle
(Content Explorer)
NPG Article
Metadata
CrossRef Deposit Record
The Query
Return for editing
2
1a
SGML
Transform to
HTML
(Content
Explorer)
HTML Text
Preview HTML &
References with
links
(Content
Explorer)
3
Approve &
Post to web
site
HTML
Server-side include
1b
SGML Reference
Section
Extracted in
Database
(Content
Explorer)
HTML
Reference
Section
5
Resolve DOIs
(Content
Explorer)
HTML
Reference
Section
Every 4 weeks
new query
4
Query
Query
NPG
Refmaster
CrossRef
MDDB
Insert Found DOIs
Finds References
Queries CrossRef
& Inserts found DOIs
into NPG Refmaster
Builds Reference
Sections
from DOIs in
NPG Refmaster
The User Experience
Article
with Abstract
Article
w/o abstract
Articles referred
& linked in same issue!
Experiences
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Problems linking from NPG products to
Nature Research titles
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AOP DOI registration was too slow via CrossRef
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Created end-run process to Handle Server
Changing NPG DOI syntax from completely dumb
to internally logical
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NPG journal short titles differed from Medline syntax used by
CrossRef
Created pre-query filter. Transforms NPG short titles to Medline
syntax for query – problem solved!
10.1038/80132  10.1038/ng732
Use DOI for all inbound links to NPG products!
Document Delivery Revenue is increasing
Plans
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Nature Science Update articles to be
deposited and have ref queries built
Inbound links to ELS/EAA
Deposit/Query 28 Specialist Journals in
2002
Further automate process with Content
Management System (CMS)
Contact
Howard Ratner
CTO, Nature Publishing Group
[email protected]
www.nature.com