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) /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 Copy Localized 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