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
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+package eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser
+import eu.dnetlib.doiboost.crossref.UnpackCrossrefDumpEntries.getClass
+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.jackson.JsonMethods.parse
+import org.slf4j.{Logger, LoggerFactory}
+
+import scala.io.Source
+
+object GenerateCrossrefDataset {
+
+  val log: Logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GenerateCrossrefDataset.getClass)
+
+  implicit val mrEncoder: Encoder[CrossrefDT] = Encoders.kryo[CrossrefDT]
+
+
+
+  def crossrefElement(meta: String): CrossrefDT = {
+    implicit lazy val formats: DefaultFormats.type = org.json4s.DefaultFormats
+    lazy val json: json4s.JValue = parse(meta)
+    val doi:String = (json \ "DOI").extract[String]
+    val timestamp: Long = (json \ "indexed" \ "timestamp").extract[Long]
+    new CrossrefDT(doi, meta, timestamp)
+
+  }
+
+  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(UnpackCrossrefDumpEntries.getClass.getSimpleName)
+      .master(master)
+      .getOrCreate()
+    val sc: SparkContext = spark.sparkContext
+
+    import spark.implicits._
+
+    sc.textFile(sourcePath,6000)
+          .map(meta => crossrefElement(meta))
+          .toDS()
+          .write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).save(targetPath)
+
+  }
+
+}