Question about publisher-deposit Booleans in the preprint–journal article relationship dataset

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Hello,

I am analysing version 3 of Crossref’s public dataset of relationships between preprints and journal articles (Zenodo record 15124417; DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15124417), and I would appreciate clarification about the semantics of two fields:

  • deposited_by_article_publisher

  • deposited_by_preprint_publisher

Crossref documentation explains that reciprocal relationships may be added as enrichment to records mentioned by relationships in other records. My question is specifically about the two Boolean fields in the bulk preprint–article relationship dataset:

When Crossref creates or exposes a reciprocal relationship as enrichment on the counterparty record, can that enrichment process itself ever cause either of these two Booleans to be true? Or is each Boolean true only when relationship metadata was deposited by the publisher/member corresponding to that side of the preprint–article pair?

For example, if only the preprint-side member deposits an is-preprint-of relationship and Crossref makes the reciprocal has-preprint relationship visible on the journal-article record, would the dataset still encode only deposited_by_preprint_publisher = true, or could the article-side Boolean also become true because of reciprocal enrichment?

I am asking because I want to distinguish accurately between:

  1. the provenance of relationship metadata deposited by Crossref members, and
  2. reciprocal relationship visibility/enrichment added by Crossref.

A brief implementation-level clarification would be extremely helpful. I am happy to provide an example pair or additional context if useful.

Thank you.

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Hi @malikaslanyurek

Adding reciprocal relationships shouldn’t affect deposited_by_article_publisher or deposited_by_preprint_publisher fields at all, because it doesn’t change who asserted the relationship, it only adds previously asserted relationship into a different record.

If only the preprint-side member deposits an is-preprint-of relationship and Crossref makes the reciprocal has-preprint relationship visible on the journal-article record, the article publisher still didn’t make any assertion about this relationship, therefore deposited_by_article_publisher would be false.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you very much, Dominika. This answers exactly the distinction I needed to clarify and is extremely helpful.

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