Global
Funding, grants and the research enterprise
Books, chapters, reports and dissertations gained another route into Crossref’s registration workflow. Easier entry does not validate the scholarship described by a record.
The registry’s documented redesign changed the structure of names, dates and organizational information. An institutional import needs to preserve meaning, not merely return a successful response.
A public profile, permission to update a record and evidence that an institution supplied a field are not the same thing. Imports need to preserve those distinctions.
Persistent identifiers, usable metadata and access controls solve different parts of the sharing problem. A repository choice needs to match the data and applicable award conditions.
