Graphic promoting new Crossref blog with screenshots of article and charts showing member growth and geographic distribution
NEW BLOG: Crossref members over the years: a journey through space and time. Read all about it: https://doi.org/10.64000/tch5n-9px70 #Crossref2025 #metadatamatters
Happy anniversary @crossref.bsky.social ! And thank you for all you’ve done over the past 25 years to aid global research communication and the research community, from the initial reference linking to all the services and tools you’ve created since then – we appreciate it!
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Well that's a wrap on #Crossref2025. Thank you so much to all our speakers and contributors from the community. Here's to the next 25 years!
Panel at #Crossref2025 talks about the potential ability of metadata and the Research Nexus to remove some of the existing hierarchies and create a more equitable landscape.
The panel at #Crossref2025 discusses some of the challenges of the Research Nexus in the real world - the technical challenges of the scale, keeping metadata open (particularly abstracts), use of metadata by AI, importance of metadata in languages other than English.
Panel at #Crossref2025 wonders if metadata has an image problem. Bianca Kramer says the word metadata not used in the Barcelona Declaration. Mariángela Napoli thinks perception of metadata is something too technical. Kazuhiro Hayashi describes metadata as "the unsung hero". Time for a rebrand ;)
And we find ourselves at the final session of #Crossref2025 with a fascinating panel on "Research Nexus in the real world: What is the impact and potential of open scholarly metadata?" chaired by @ginsta.bsky.social. More on the Research Nexus here: www.crossref.org/documentatio...
Screenshot from a slide with the heading "What we learned on our journey" which highlights: Metadata Quality is Key Reference LInking is Powerful Collaboration Builds Ecosystems Better Metadata = Better Recognition
And our final "community highlight" presentation for #Crossref2025 Day 2 brings Ratna Galuh Manika Trisista from Universitas Islam Jakarta, talking about "Improved citation visibility through Reference Linking".
And now, Achal Agrawal from PostPub explains "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Author-Affiliation Co-Occurrence for Institute Disambiguation" - great to see Crossref metadata being used out in the world! #Crossref2025
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Hearing from Nurul Ain Mohd Noor from UMT Press at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu about their journey with Crossref, and how it's has helped to drive their growth and visibility. So good to hear! #Crossref2025
A picture of a slide from a presentation. The title says "Conclusion: Crossref - A Lever for visibility" and has a four square box saying: "Crossref has been a real lever for growth and visibility for PAMJ." "Visibility has made the journal known and trusted across Africa and beyond" "Today, submissions come from every continent, amplifying Africa's voice in Science" "The story with Crossref continues..."
Audrey Kenni shares Pan African Medical Journals' journey of visibility with Crossref - and the story continues! #Crossref2025
Now hearing from @hldejonge.bsky.social from Open Science NL about their fascinating study into Crossref as a source of open bibliographic metadata #Crossref2025
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Picture of a slide with the heading "Beautiful maintenance" and bullet points which say: Observing the system Investigating and responding to incidents Software upgrades Scaling as needed Ensuring system security Investigating and fixing bugs Applying metadata schema changes Documenting Responding to user queries Refactoring and reengineering
PIcture of a slide with the heading "Smart alone, brilliant together" showing the faces of the Crossref technology team
Our Director of Technology Dominika Tkaczykat talks about the role of technology, and particularly "beautiful maintenance", thanking our technology team at #crossref2025
Also announcing our upgraded record registration form, thanks to Patrick Vale and Lena Stoll, now available not just for grants but also for journal articles! In preparation for deprecating Metadata Manager, this new tool offers even better functionality for members registering DOIs! #crossref2025
Launching the new Participation Reports, already available at crossref.org/members/prep. Read about what's new and why more transparency on #openmetadata is important for movements like @barcelonadori.bsky.social, not to mention insights for members themselves doi.org/10.64000/8d5... #Crossref2025
A big thank you from us all (via @johansseno.bsky.social) to our amazing Ambassadors, who are engaged and active all over the world on behalf of Crossref's mission and of course aligned with #openresearch. #crossref2025
Crossref and @ajol.info "go way back", says its Executive Director, Susan Murray! Long may it continue 🥰 #Crossref2025
An overview now from Leena Shah of @doaj.bsky.social on our collaboration; we have MOU to look into gaps in journal coverage, and we're two of the partners on theplace.discourse.group, which helps smaller publishers to learn about both our organisations, OASPA and COPE. #Crossref2025
Soichi Tokizane of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) explains how Crossref paved the way for the foundation of J-STAGE and JaLC services; our work together began in 2002. To this day, they remain a sponsor, a member, and also register Grants funded by the Japanese government. #crossref2025
Day 2 of our Annual Meeting (it's the 26th meeting in our 25th year!) and Ed Pentz discusses the scale of Crossref today #Crossref2025
Why are we focusing on metadata matching? Well, says Data Scientist Jason Portenoy, there are gaps to fill! We already match billions of relationships, and we're working on expanding this. The goal? A more complete scholarly record. More info at www.crossref.org/community/sp... #crossref2025
Why did Crossref need a dedicated Data Science team? Dominika Tkaczyk, Director of Technology, explains why and gives the team's mission as *"The Crossref Data Science team uses scientific research and data science to deliver, assess, improve, and enrich scholarly metadata."* #crossref2025
Now an update on our metadata schema: Grants schema 0.3.0 will add support for project ids (RAiD); Publications schema 5.5 for contributor roles and statements (e.g. funding, acknowledgements, data/software availability). And a reminder (attached) of the most recent updates. #crossref2025
@charlierapple.bsky.social reminds us why we work towards open science, linked with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The @growkudos.bsky.social research highlights that many researchers (of about 4,500 respondents) think these goals should be a key factor in funding priorities #Crossref2025
Also announcing today the expansion of our Global Equity Membership (GEM) program to include 19 additional countries, who, from January 2026, will have fee-free membership and 0-fee content registration. #Crossref2025
@abartell.bsky.social, Membership Director, is giving the story of membership evolution over the last 25 years. Notably, university-based members have grown. We currently have 23,278 members in 163 countries. #Crossref2025
Announcing new Crossref board to start January 2026! We welcome Prof. Rebecca Mwikali Wambua of Africa Nazarene University and Damian Bird of CABI, alongside returning board members Rose L'Huillier of Elsevier, Anjalie Nawaratne of Springer Nature, and Nick Lindsay of The MIT Press. #crossref2025
Thank you @lschiff.bsky.social for your comprehensive overview of Crossref's achievements this last year and reflections on how the role of the board has evolved and what challenges lie ahead for the incoming board, shortly to be announced! #Crossref2025
Appreciation for Crossref's global system from Abel Packer, focusing on the huge growth and success of @scielo.org over the years, mirroring and helping Crossref's growth in smaller journals from the global south. #crossref2025
An overview from @9thprime.bsky.social, NISO, of Crossref's leadership over the last quarter century and its emphasis on community-building ("social infrastructure") in the scholarly communications environment, resulting in tightly connected links between digital research objects. #Crossref2025
