diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/GenerateCrossrefDataset.scala b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/GenerateCrossrefDataset.scala
index e48f68a7f..b11e2d8de 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/GenerateCrossrefDataset.scala
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/GenerateCrossrefDataset.scala
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref
 
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser
+import eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref.CrossrefDataset.to_item
+import eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref.UnpackCrtossrefEntries.getClass
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.{IntWritable, Text}
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{Encoder, Encoders, SaveMode, SparkSession}
 import org.json4s
@@ -17,13 +22,6 @@ object GenerateCrossrefDataset {
 
   implicit val mrEncoder: Encoder[CrossrefDT] = Encoders.kryo[CrossrefDT]
 
-  def extractDump(input:String):List[String] = {
-    implicit lazy val formats: DefaultFormats.type = org.json4s.DefaultFormats
-    lazy val json: json4s.JValue = parse(input)
-
-    val a = (json \ "items").extract[JArray]
-    a.arr.map(s => compact(render(s)))
-  }
 
 
   def crossrefElement(meta: String): CrossrefDT = {
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ object GenerateCrossrefDataset {
     val targetPath = parser.get("targetPath")
 
     val spark: SparkSession = SparkSession.builder().config(conf)
-      .appName(GenerateCrossrefDataset.getClass.getSimpleName)
+      .appName(UnpackCrtossrefEntries.getClass.getSimpleName)
       .master(master)
       .getOrCreate()
     val sc: SparkContext = spark.sparkContext
@@ -52,19 +50,14 @@ object GenerateCrossrefDataset {
     import spark.implicits._
 
 
-    def extractDump(input:String):List[String] = {
-      implicit lazy val formats: DefaultFormats.type = org.json4s.DefaultFormats
-      lazy val json: json4s.JValue = parse(input)
+    val tmp : RDD[String] = sc.textFile(sourcePath,6000)
 
-      val a = (json \ "items").extract[JArray]
-      a.arr.map(s => compact(render(s)))
-    }
-
-
-    sc.wholeTextFiles(sourcePath,6000).flatMap(d =>extractDump(d._2))
-          .map(meta => crossrefElement(meta))
-          .toDS()//.as[CrossrefDT]
-          .write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).save(targetPath)
+    spark.createDataset(tmp)
+      .map(entry => crossrefElement(entry))
+      .write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).save(targetPath)
+//               .map(meta => crossrefElement(meta))
+//               .toDS.as[CrossrefDT]
+//              .write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).save(targetPath)
 
   }
 
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/UnpackCrtossrefEntries.scala b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/UnpackCrtossrefEntries.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95ecb568b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-doiboost/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/doiboost/crossref/UnpackCrtossrefEntries.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{Encoder, Encoders, SaveMode, SparkSession}
+import org.json4s
+import org.json4s.DefaultFormats
+import org.json4s.JsonAST.JArray
+import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods.{compact, parse, render}
+import org.slf4j.{Logger, LoggerFactory}
+
+import scala.io.Source
+
+object UnpackCrtossrefEntries {
+
+  val log: Logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(UnpackCrtossrefEntries.getClass)
+
+
+
+
+  def extractDump(input:String):List[String] = {
+    implicit lazy val formats: DefaultFormats.type = org.json4s.DefaultFormats
+    lazy val json: json4s.JValue = parse(input)
+
+    val a = (json \ "items").extract[JArray]
+    a.arr.map(s => compact(render(s)))
+
+
+  }
+
+
+
+  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+    val conf = new SparkConf
+    val parser = new ArgumentApplicationParser(Source.fromInputStream(getClass.getResourceAsStream("/eu/dnetlib/dhp/doiboost/crossref_dump_reader/generate_dataset_params.json")).mkString)
+    parser.parseArgument(args)
+    val master = parser.get("master")
+    val sourcePath = parser.get("sourcePath")
+    val targetPath = parser.get("targetPath")
+
+    val spark: SparkSession = SparkSession.builder().config(conf)
+      .appName(UnpackCrtossrefEntries.getClass.getSimpleName)
+      .master(master)
+      .getOrCreate()
+    val sc: SparkContext = spark.sparkContext
+
+    sc.wholeTextFiles(sourcePath,6000).flatMap(d =>extractDump(d._2))
+      .saveAsTextFile(targetPath, classOf[GzipCodec])
+
+
+  }
+
+}