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Disclosure I was a co-author of the original Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures. I also worked for Crossref and wrote its first and second POSI self-assessments. However, I’ve based this analysis on public information. TL;DR After 1,005 days, Crossref updated its POSI self-audit. Crossref has made some important progress in increasing board diversity, establishing financial reserves, removing a closed source technical dependency from its system, and ensuring that IP is not a barrier to forking Crossref services. ...

COI I was one of the co-authors of the original Principles of Open Schlarly Infrastructure. I also once worked for Crossref- during which time I wrote their first two POSI self-assesments. 1000 Days and counting As of today (2024-12-02), it has been 1000 days since Crossref updated its POSI self-assessment. That translates to almost 2 years and 9 months. It’s not the worst of the POSI Posse in this respect. But it is probably the most worrying, if for no other reason than that Crossref is the largest scholarly infrastructure organization that currently endorses POSI. ...

Force11 has posted a video of the presentation I gave at Force24. I discuss POSI’s limitations and the risks associated with the self-auditing culture that has developed around them. I also talk about recent developments in the community that threaten to slow or even roll back the adoption of open scholarly infrastructure. The Principles of Fauxpen Scholarly Infrastrcuture

About Below is an adaptation of a paper on “AI” that I wrote for the Crossref board for our meeting in November 2023. A few board members encouraged me to post the update, but we never got around to it. I don’t work for Crossref anymore, but I thought it would still be worth sharing this if only to go on the record about my views on AI and machine learning at the time. ...

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