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lack of open engagement and transparency regarding knowledge
base requirements
lack of understanding as to the use to which the data will be put,
leading to inaccuracy
accuracy not being a major concern of full-text aggregators
competition between organizations hindering data sharing
lack of clarity and transparency regarding standards, frequency of
data updates and linking syntaxes
the absence of a code of practice and information standards to
ensure optimal knowledge base compliance in addition to the
OpenURL.
FRBRization
If an A&I database or institutional repository does not have a direct link
to DOI or OpenURL, or the ability to add this information via a link
resolver product in order to link to full-text content (whether
subscribed or not), that record is of little use to today's researcher. In
addition, any publisher (and there are many) who does not register a
DOI or an OpenURL to all articles, including editorials, etc., will
perpetuate the barriers to resource discovery. Those that register the
DOI but do not display either it or the OpenURL on the page
effectively render themselves 'ex-directory' as far as repository managers
are concerned, as trying to trace a DOI via CrossRef using citation
details can prove frustrating.
Separately, the DOI and OpenURL have gone a long way to
satisfying the different needs of the community; however, in their 2006
article Apps and MacIntyre ask whether 'incorporating a DOI within
an OpenURL, where available, will take advantage of the exact
resolution capabilities of DOI'. This could be crucial when looking to
the future, where the FRBRization
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(Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records: the creation of a set of records that all represent
the same work rather than a display that shows all the different editions
separately) of records in metasearch and other discovery services would
enable an article that might be held in the repository, indexed in an A&I
database, and held in full text through a journal publisher's site or via
an intermediary, to be displayed as one record.
