Content enhancements

Curvenote Reader can layer enhancements on top of your existing content — additional links, identifiers, and context that enrich the reading experience without changing your source. By default these ship as opt-in overlay content, stored alongside your content rather than written into it.

This page gives a flavour of what’s possible. A full, current list of available enhancements is in the Curvenote theme documentation.

What we can enhance¶

• Abbreviations — recognized and brought in so readers can expand them in context.

• Repository links — connect content out to external repositories such as Figshare, GitHub, Zenodo.

• RRIDs — research resource identifiers registered as enhancements.

• DOIs — resolved and enriched from Crossref and OpenAlex.

• RORs — organization identifiers that improve affiliations and related metadata.

• ORCIDs — author identifiers, including affiliations the author has attested to on their ORCID record.

• Funding & grant IDs — funders and award identifiers connected to the work.

Enriched citations¶

Text-only citations that have a high probability of a matching DOI can also be enhanced:

• Resolve to a DOI — link the citation to the work behind it.

• Bring in the abstract — so readers get context without leaving the page.

• Bring in figures — if the cited work is open access and appropriately licensed, its figures can be surfaced directly inline.

Citations that have also been enhanced by CrossRef directly can be brought in and shown in this way.

How enhancements are stored¶

Enhancements are stored as an overlay on top of your existing content and, by default, are shipped alongside it as opt-in layers — readers (and your site) choose to bring them in.

As enhancements run across your corpus, they build up a structured enhancement database: a record, per article and version, of the identifiers, links, and enrichments that have been resolved (DOIs, ORCIDs, RORs, funding and grant IDs, abstracts, and more), along with where each came from and how confident the match is. Because it is kept separate from your source content, the overlay model means you stay in control of what is additive and what becomes part of your canonical content.

If you want to go further, enhancements can be rolled into your content — improving your cross-reference graph and metadata records, especially for citations, DOIs, RORs, and ORCIDs.

Improving your metadata records¶

The enhancement database is not only for the reading experience — it is a structured view of metadata your existing records may be missing. With it, you can feed enrichments back into your own systems and into community registries: for example, resubmitting or depositing improved records to Crossref — such as newly resolved citation DOIs, funder and grant IDs, ORCIDs, and affiliations — so your canonical metadata becomes richer and more connected over time. You decide which enrichments to promote and submit.