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Crossref updates its POSI self-assessment after 1,005 days.
Crossref has made significant progress. This is great. I am still concerned that it contains omissions & transparency issues. It also doesn’t address several important, unresolved questions.
gbilder.com/posts/2024-1...
I realise that saying "Atkinson was the author of HyperCard" is probably like saying "Torvalds is the author of Subsurface." But HyperCard changed the way I think, and I still miss it. #HyperCard
As of today (2024-12-02), it has been 1000 days since Crossref updated its POSI self-assessment.
It's not the worst of the "POSI Posse" in this respect.
But it may be the most worrying.
gbilder.com/posts/2024-1...
If only there were a way for AI to check if a citation was hallucinated. Or to vet the provenance of a putative scholarly publication. If only there were some sort of infrastructure to support this: asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/the-collab...
FTR- CR Labs also led the initial conceptualisation & development of CR's strategic initiatives- including ORCID, Open Funder Registry, Crossref API, ROR, Event Data, Grant IDs, and the opening of RetractionWatch data. Many of these involved applied "data science" but they were not "Data Science."
There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
