Program Meeting Notes
April 25, 2001
CrossRef
Forsgate Country Club

Anthony Durniak, Staff Executive of Publications at IEEE, gave a presentation about CrossRef. CrossRef is a non-profit independent membership organization that provides a collaborative reference linking service. Currently there are 68 members who are publishers of original scholarly material. Affiliates are organizations that create links to full text articles. CrossRef went live in June 2000 and currently has metadata for 2.7 million articles from over 3600 journals. The service operates on a cost recovery basis where members and affiliates pay annual fees and deposit/retrieval fees for usage.

E-journals add value by replicating the look and feel of print, but delivering faster and providing links and supplementary data. CrossRef's linking infrastructure has persistent identifiers for articles called digital object identifiers. There is a framework to create linking standards and rules. The benefits of CrossRef include the collaborative nature of the linking network and the standards that have been established for identifiers and metadata.

Eric Hellman of Openly Informatics spoke about implementing CrossRef in a library. The Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment Project (JAKE) was begun at Yale Medical School. JAKE manages online journals with a database union list, title authority control and linking tools. Openly Jake is an open-source framework built around core JAKE serials data. Openly Jake enables the management, organization, integration and linking of a library's e-Journals. Openly has developed add-on resources including JournalSeek Database to link a serials catalog to e-Journals on the web. They will soon release a CrossRef Linking Engine.

After the presentations both speakers answered questions from the audience.