20.09.2022
Towards a connected and dynamic scholarly record of updates, corrections, and retractions
« The scholarly record is evolving. As a community, we are very good at convening and acting on new research objects, especially container outputs—preprints, data, software, and reviews, to name a few. We’re less good at linking those objects together. And we usually focus on the act of citation, with many excellent community-created guides for citing different types of objects. If the objects are now largely very well identifiable and citeable, Crossref, with its members and integrators, now needs to turn our collective attention to building the evidence trail. This is made up of the relationships between objects and the acts that are performed on them over time, which could be by the original creators or those reusing and building on the work in later generations. It’s all about metadata and relationships, and we call it the Research Nexus. (…) »
