First Annual Member Meeting

Publishers International Linking Assoc.

November 14, 2000

Cambridge, MA

Why CrossRef?

• Why are we here?

• The World Wide Web!

• Cooperation and the Power of Network Effects

• “The value of an invention, company, or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems it participates with increases linearly” Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy, Pg 43

CrossRef History

• Announced November 16, 1999

• Incorporated January 2000

• Independent, non-for-profit membership organization– Members: publishers of original scholarly

material– Agents, Affiliates, Libraries

Antecedents

• Digital Object Identifier (DOI) - 1997/1998– CNRI, Association of American Publishers

• DOI-X Prototype– IDF,CNRI, AAP plus publishers– demonstrated feasibility of using DOIs for

reference linking

• developed DTD for metadata and data rules

• Metadata Deposit (CNRI), DOI Look up (AP), MDDB (Wiley)

Organization

• Publishers International Linking Association (PILA) - incorporated in New York, January 2000

• Board of Directors

– AAAS (Science),Academic Press (Harcourt), AIP, ACM, Blackwell Science, Elsevier Science, IEEE, Kluwer, Nature, OUP, Springer, Wiley

• 61 Member publishers• +60% are non-profit

Organization

• Membership Organization - By-laws online

– we need your participation

• Member Rules and Responsibilities– draft document summarizing all the rules– keep system fair and equitable– deposit metadata for an article before looking

up DOIs for that article

Organization

• Technical Working Group (TWG)– Implementation Working Group– DTD Working Group– System Rewrite Group

• Legal Working Group

• Fees/Membership Committee– Board Committee to review issues

• Publicity Working Group - Susan Spilka

Key Developments

• Affiliates/Agents/Libraries

• Local Hosting– Open to Members, Affiliates and Agents– very strict terms - no reuse of data

• IDF Registration Agency

• CrossRef Data Center

Issues

• Harvard Problem Appropriate CopyLocalized Linking

• Localized Linking Prototype– CrossRef, DLF, IDF, CNRI, Ex Libris,

publishers and libraries (Ohio State, Los Alamos, University of Illinois)

• Multiple Resolution

Where are we?• System is live - 2 million articles in

database - links being created

• Data Center up and running• Critical Mass of Members- legal framework,

fees, revenue coming in

• Broad-based linking is feasible– DOIs and Metadata lay the groundwork for

more sophisticated linking (URLs don’t)

– CrossRef is a vehicle for publishers to work with libraries and others

Update on Finances

• Start-up loans provided by 8 organizations– $1.2 million

• Accounting system in place

• Working with accounting firm

• Fees– Membership Fees billed– Deposit Fees through September 30th billed

2001 Budget/Annual Report

• 2001 Budget – information available when approved by Board– Draft Budget being discussed– $1.8 million in expenditure– Fee revenue projections/Cash flow projections

• Full audit will be done

• Annual Report with full audit will be available