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Linkage Workshop

A one-day invitational workshop sponsored by NISO, NFAIS, DLF, and the Society of Scholarly Publishers. Funded by the Digital Library Federation and NISO.

• PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP

• WORKSHOP AGENDA

• WORKSHOP ATTENDEES
• WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

• WORKSHOP REPORT

• NEXT STEPS: REFERENCE LINKING WORKING GROUP SET-UP

• REFERENCE LINKING WORKING GROUP REPORT

• RESOURCES ON LINKING

• LINKING DISCUSSION LIST

• WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP
End users in search of information want to go directly from a citation in electronic form to the cited journal or journal article in electronic form. The citation may appear in any number of places, including an online catalog, an online index, or among the references in an online text. In the simplest case, the user may achieve a link by clicking on the citation and connecting to a document located on a web page identified by a URL. Increasingly, however, the simplest case does not apply. The identifier embedded in the citation may be old and out of date. The cited object may be behind a firewall or available only through an online service which uses purely internal identifiers. The identifier may be an indirect reference, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which requires access to a resolver service. To further add to the complexity, a number of copies and/or versions of the cited object may exist, forcing the user to discover which ones he or she is authorized to use.

As multiple solutions emerge to provide linkages from citations to digital objects, the linking problem becomes more complex and of growing concern to a broad set of interested parties: scholars and researchers, who expect seamless access to network-accessible materials; authors and publishers who want wide awareness of and use of their intellectual property; repositories and vendors which require mechanisms to facilitate linking access both into and out of their systems, and libraries which must provide and manage a wide range of search tools and information sources containing links and serve those who use them.

The purpose of the workshop on linkage from citations to electronic journal literature is to bring together publishers, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, repositories, vendors of information services, and end users, in order to open a dialog on the issues. The workshop will begin with prepared statements of the problem from the perspectives of the library, publisher, abstracting and indexing service, and end user. This will be followed by presentations of some current approaches to linking taken by selected vendors and organizations. Participants can explore emerging solutions in the light of the requirements of various communities. This workshop will attempt to build a common awareness of a broad range of needs and to improve understanding of the strengths and limitations of current approaches. In addition, the workshop will seek to identify and stimulate actions needed to improve the facilities for linking citations and digital objects in the digital environment.

Bill Arms, CNRI
Helen Atkins, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
Ed Barnas, SSP
Deb Bendig, OCLC
Chris Biemesderfer, Seagoat Consulting
Julia Blixrud, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Pieter Bolman, Academic Press
Frederick Bowes, SSP
Peter Boyce, American Astronomical Society
Wendy Bucci, American Mathematical Society
Valerie Cammarata, IEEE
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
David Case, Chadwyck-Healey
Jane Cohen, DTIC
Gary Coker, EBSCO Online
Ken Dreyhaupt, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
Jim Drier, Ovid Technologies Inc.
Joe Elia, New England Journal of Medicine
Todd Fegan, UMI
Karen Ferreira, American Mathematical Society
Dale Flecker, Harvard University
Rebecca Graham, Digital Library Federation
Brian Harrington, Johns Hopkins University Press
Patricia Harris, NISO
Eric Hellman, Openly Informatics
Barbara Herzoy, SilverPlatter
Charles Hurley, Elsevier Science Inc.
Simon Inger, Catchword
Tim Ingoldsby, American Institute of Physics
Beverly Jamison, APA
William Jordan, University of Washington, DCS
Dianne Kennedy, SGML Resource Center
Nancy Knight, NISO
Carl Lagoze, Cornell/DLF
George Lewicky, H. W. Wilson
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Martin Marlow, Blackwell's Information Services
Christine Martire, Chadwyck Healey
Sally McCallum, Library of Congress
Jerry McDonough, Berkeley
David Millman, DLF
Todd Morris, ScienceServer LLC (for OhioLINK)
Mark Needleman, Data Research Associates, Inc. (DRA)
Richard Newman, ISI
Jim Ostell, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Evan Owens, University of Chicago Press
Mary Grace Palumbo, Dawson Information Quest
Norman Paskin, The International DOI Foundation
Oliver Pesch, EBSCO
Adam Philippidis, IEEE
Vicky Reich, Highwire Press
Paul Ryan, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Jane Rosov, National Library of Medicine
Kathleen Sheedy, APA
Chris Shillum, Science Direct
Albert Simmonds, Albert Simmonds Development
Noam Stopak, ScienceServer LLC (for OhioLINK)
Margery Tibbetts, California Digital Library
Craig Van Dyck, John Wiley & Sons
Don Waters, CLIR/DLF
Ralph Youngen, ACS

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Bibliography

Arms, William Y., Christophe Blanchi and Edward A. Overly. 1997. "An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries." D-Lib Magazine, February.
www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html

Arms, William Y. 1997. "Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Clifford Lynch's Five Questions on Identifiers." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, 194, October.
www.arl.org/newsltr/194/arms.html/

Davidson, Lloyd A. and Kimberly Douglas. 1998. "Digital Object Identifiers: Promise and Problems for Scholarly Publishing." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, Issue 2, December.
www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/davidson.html

Cuendet, Pierre. 1997. Electronic Information Access for Higher Education and Research: Proposals for a Swiss Information Consortium. November 18.
www-bichi.unil.ch/Swiss_Consortium.html

Ford, Charlotte E. and Stephen P. Harter. 1998. "The Downside of Scholarly Electronic Publishing: Problems in Accessing Electronic Journals through Online Directories and Catalogs." C&RL 59, No. 4, July, pp. 335-346.

Hellman, Eric S. 1998. Scholarly Link Specification Framework (SLinkS).
www.openly.com/SLinkS

Hitchcock, Steve, et. al. "Citation Linking: Improving Access to Online Journals." In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries in Philadelphia July 23-26, 1997.
journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/acmdl97.htm

Hitchcock, Steve. 1998. "Linking Electronic Journals: Lessons from the Open Journal Project." D-Lib Magazine. December.
www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12hitchcock.html

Hitchcock, Steve, et. al. 1998. Towards Universal Linking for Electronic Journals. November.
journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/IFIP-SerRev98.html

Hunter, Karen 1998. "Adding Value by Adding Links." Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, Issue 3. March.
www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-03/hunter.html

Lynch, Clifford. 1997. "Identifiers and their Role in Networked Information Applications." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194, October.
www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html

Machovec, George. 1997. Electronic Journal Market Overview - 1997. March.
www.coalliance.org/reports/ejournal.htm

Paskin, Norman. 1997. "Information Identifiers." Learned Publishing 10, no. 2, April, p 135-156.
www.elsevier.com/inca/homepage/about/infoident/

Tenopir, Carol. 1998. "Linking to Full Texts." Library Journal 123, no. 6, April 1, p. 34ff.

Thoma, George R., et. al. Panel: Access to Document Images over the Internet.
jeffline.tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/hslc/sym95/thoma.html

TULIP Final Report.
www.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/resproj/trmenu.htm

Vendors/Product Information/Web Sites

American Physical Society.
Frequently Asked Questions about the APS Link Manager
publish.aps.org/linkfaq.html

Digital Object Identifier
www.doi.org

EBSCO Online
www.ebsco.com/home/bropage1.asp

ISI Links
www.isinet.com/isilinks/isilinks.html

OCLC Electronic Collections Online
www.oclc.org/oclc/new/n228/eco.htm

Ovid Observer
www.ovid.com/newslet/newslet.htm

Project Muse
muse.jhu.edu/muse.html

Silverplatter Silverlinker
www.silverplatter.com/silverlinker/overview.htm

SwetsNet
www.swetsnet.nl

UMI
www.umi.com

A moderated discussion list has been set up to keep the dialog on linking going. All Workshop attendees are in the discussion group. To be in the group, send an email message to Don Waters.