From: Carol Anne Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:54:39 -0400

Hi Joe,

I’m not sure what your use case is, but it is possible to assign
CrossRef DOIs at any level of granularity, so you could indeed use
them for paragraphs. A number of publishers assign CrossRef DOIs to
figures, tables, and other “components”. So far, our component DOIs do
not have quite as robust metadata and so they do not aid in
discoverability as much, but we can always augment the schema if there
is a need to do so. DOIs will of course provide persistent URLs for
these smaller units.

Best,
Carol

Carol Anne Meyer
CrossRef
Lynnfield, MA 01940
cmeyer at crossref . org


On Jul 24, 2014, at 6:40 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:46:58 +0000
>
> I too have been following this post with and would like to share some
> data that may be of interest.
>
> In July 2011, OECD started 'publishing by chapter' for most of our
> titles. Previously, we could only cope with publishing a small
> proportion of our list by chapter - creating and managing metadata for
> thousands of chapters compared to a few hundred books is a huge jump
> in workload and complexity and we had to invest in new systems to
> deliver this improvement. But it's been worth it.
>
> In July 2011, we recorded around 50,000 downloads of the chapters that
> were online at that time and 50,000 downloads of complete books.
>
> In July 2012, we recorded just over 130,000 downloads of chapters and
> 80,000 downloads of complete books.
>
> In July 2013, the figures had risen to 260,000 and 150,000 respectively.
>
> July, of course, is not an ideal month to follow since it marks the
> low point in the year as the northern hemisphere is enjoying its
> summer.  In November 2013, (peak demand month) we recorded nearly
> 350,000 downloads of chapters and 170,000 downloads of complete books.
> We're seeing continued growth in 2014.
>
> Over this period, OECD continued to publish around 350 books a year in
> all languages, so the growth is not explained by a sudden increase in
> output. For those not familiar with OECD's catalogue, we had 9440
> books online in May 2014 with 37200 chapters available separately.
>
> Toby Green
> Head, OECD Publishing
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:06:27 -0400
>
> I have been following this thread with interest.  I wish to mention
> that I am in the earliest stages of a project to tag books at the
> level of the paragraph.  I have no idea how this project will turn
> out, but you have to start somewhere.  Note that I say "tag" and not
> "DOI."  The paragraph and not the chapter is the unit of thought, so
> doing anything on the chapter level doesn't take us far enough.
>
> It goes without saying that it is not possible to tag paragraphs
> manually.  The process has to be automated.
>
> If this project goes anywhere, I will post a summary of it.
>
> Joe Esposito