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Working to reduce DOI conflicts will be an ongoing task for all CrossRef stakeholders. Conflicts make DOI discovery more difficult The majority of CrossRef query transactions are between machines thus automation is essential. Ambiguous DOI metadata interferes with that automation.
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Working to reduce DOI conflicts will be an ongoing task for all CrossRef stakeholders. • Conflicts make DOI discovery more difficult The majority of CrossRef query transactions are between machines thus automation is essential. Ambiguous DOI metadata interferes with that automation. • 4 things we can do about conflicts: • Prevent them by supplying unique metadata in each DOI’s deposit • (see http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/how_to_faq.html#Anchor-Dealin-60673) • Resolve them by updating previous deposits with new, distinct metadata • Resolve them in bulk by contacting support@crossref.org • Resolve them using your CrossRef account and the conflict administration screens This presentation was prepared on February 10, 2005 NEXT
This presentation walks through the process of using the CrossRef system to resolve you conflicts without contacting CrossRef for assistance • This approach will let you eliminate significant quantities of conflicts with a few simple steps. For conflict quantities in the 100s it might be best to contact CrossRef • This approach will only let you resolve conflicts involving DOIs having the same prefix/owner. Conflicts can be created by one publisher that impact another publisher’s DOIs. Please contact CrossRef to resolve these conflicts NEXT
The CrossRef conflict report is a good place to start. For each publisher it identifies the titles that have conflicts www.crossref.org => members area => member resources => system reports => conflict report (note: the periodic email notifications contain the same data) # of DOIs File size Click on the title to see the conflict details NEXT
Conflict ID The submission that caused the conflict The submission ID of the ‘other’ DOI The metadata of the ‘conflict’ DOI (author,volume,issue,page,year,item title) Publication title The ‘conflict’ and ‘other’ DOI metadata should be identical BUT, if an anomaly occurred this alert will show the metadata of the ‘other’ DOI (note the subtle title difference) DOI pairs can have several conflicts if the DOIs were deposited repeatedly with the same metadata. This record lists the other conflict IDs and their status (null: not resolved, A: has been made an alias, P:has been made a prime, U:conflict was automatically resolved by an update of the metadata, R: conflict was manually erased/resolved) The detail report lists all data about each conflict NEXT
A worst case scenario! Same two DOIs involved in these two conflicts =========================================== Created: 2003-03-27 15:52:04.0 ConfID: 865 CauseID: 14986658 OtherID: 14986596, JT: Physical Review MD: null, 69 ,11-12,674,1946,Proceedings of the American Physical Society - NY DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 (943-R 944-P 637-P 691-P 769-P 865-R 61503-U 61511-U ) ALERT: MD mismatch! null, 69 ,11-12,674,1946,Proceedings of the American Physical Society (10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2 (943-null 944-A 637-A 691-A 769-R 865-null 61503-U 61511-U )) =========================================== Created: 2003-03-27 16:01:00.0 ConfID: 943 CauseID: 14986735 OtherID: 14986596, JT: Physical Review MD: null, 69 ,11-12,674,1946,Proceedings of the American Physical Society - NY DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 (943-R 944-P 637-P 691-P 769-P 865-R 61503-U 61511-U ) ALERT: MD mismatch! null, 69 ,11-12,674,1946,Proceedings of the American Physical Society (10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2 (943-null 944-A 637-A 691-A 769-R 865-null 61503-U 61511-U )) =========================================== In some conflicts prime/alias relations have been setup, other conflicts appear unresolved or inconsistent NEXT
What does this situation mean??? Something went wrong in earlier attempts to resolve these conflicts (system aborted?) Since at least one conflict is resolved with a prime/alias pair any query with this metadata will work QUERY:|Physical Review||69|11-12|674|1946||| Results: 0031899X|Physical Review||69|11-12|674|1946|full_text||10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 This is a good thing. It means the primary CrossRef mission is being achieved! What should be done next ??? Having these open conflicts is really just a nuisance, to get rid of them from our reports lets make DOI 10.1103/PhysRev.69.674 prime in all conflicts NEXT
Step 3: enter the conflict ID and select consolidated conflicts NEXT
This form also lists all the conflicts related to these DOIs Click on the DOI to view the target article Hightlights which conflict we requested Most conflicts have a prime DOI, from the Conflict Report we know which one it is Some conflict’s status is ambiguous NEXT
Results Note: previous conflicts that had a prime/alias pair are re-processed! NEXT
To review the effect go back to the conflict administration page, enter the DOI, clear all check boxes and submit NEXT
When “Show consolidated conflicts” is not selected the display shows more detail about each conflict In this example, all conflicts are resolved so there is no action to take (action buttons only show on “Consolidated” view) NEXT
Prime DOI returned Prime/Alias flag The alias/prime settings show up in the DOI query results NEXT
Created: 2004-07-28 00:48:53.0 ConfID: 118504 CauseID: 81049593 OtherID: JT: Journal of the American Chemical Society MD: null, 126 ,30,9465,2004,null DOI: 10.1021/ja040932t (118502-null 118503-null 118504-null 118624-null 118625-null 118626-null 118627-null ) DOI: 10.1021/ja040944e (118502-null 118503-null 118504-null 118624-null 118625-null 118626-null 118627-null ) DOI: 10.1021/ja040943m (118503-null 118504-null 118624-null 118625-null 118626-null 118627-null ) DOI: 10.1021/ja0409311 (118504-null 118624-null 118625-null 118626-null 118627-null ) Lets do another …. 4 DOIs involved in a ‘family’ of 7 conflicts NEXT
Again, use the conflict admin form, enter a conflict ID and select “Show consolidated conflicts” What to do? From the conflict report we know all 4 DOIs point to the same page in the same issue and none have an author or article title. Lets view them... NEXT
All 4 DOIs point to BookReviews that appear on the same page of the same issue. There simply is not enough metadata to distinguish these 4 from one another. These conflicts should just be erased! NEXT
On the “Consolidated conflict” form manually resolve all conflicts NEXT
Results: all conflicts are simply resolved without any DOI being made prime or alias NEXT
What does it mean to manually “resolve” conflicts? Basic metadata queries will not find these DOIs: Query |Journal of the American Chemical Society||126|30|9465|2004||| Produces <query status="unresolved"> <journal_title>Journal of the American Chemical Society</journal_title> <volume>126</volume> <issue>30</issue> <first_page>9465</first_page> <year>2004</year> </query> XML queries will find these DOIs: Query Produces <query key="MyKey1" status="multiresolved"> <doi>10.1021/ja040944e</doi> <issn>00027863</issn> <journal_title> Journal of the American Chemical Society </journal_title> <volume>126</volume> <issue>30</issue> <first_page>9465</first_page> <year>2004</year> <publication_type>full_text</publication_type> </query> <query key="MyKey1" status="multiresolved"> <doi>10.1021/ja040943m</doi> … (more) <query key="MyKey1" enable-multiple-hits="true"> <journal_title> Journal of the American Chemical Society </journal_title> <volume>126</volume> <first_page>9465</first_page> <year>2004</year> </query> NEXT
Conflict was ‘erased’ or ‘marked as resolved’ Just undo What if a mistake is made? NEXT
Working to reduce DOI conflicts will be an ongoing task for all CrossRef stakeholders. • Conflict resolution function has come a long way! • Attention to details by all members will improve data quality • Pay attention to your deposit logs!!! The End