Assess whether downstream consumers can support full multilingual abstracts and language metadata

Assess whether downstream consumers of Crossref metadata, such as OpenAIRE and OpenAlex, can ingest, store, and expose all multilingual abstracts and associated language attributes to improve language reporting and discoverability.

Background

The paper highlights that discovery platforms like OpenAIRE and OpenAlex use Crossref’s REST API, which typically provides only the first abstract, limiting exposure of multilingual metadata, even when publishers deposit complete multilingual abstracts via XML.

To close the gap between deposited metadata and what is available downstream, the authors explicitly ask whether downstream consumers can support the inclusion and exposure of all multilingual abstracts and language attributes.