Monthly Archives: July 2011

JISC Administrative Data for Open Citations Project

Posted on July 3, 2011 by David Shotton

Data copied from JISC Expo DOAP (Description of a Project) spreadsheet at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArsNASxXZiL6dC1mWWFMMjRWSmVha0E1WmdlQ05KcEE&hl=en#gid=7. Project title: The Open Citations Project Project tag: jiscopencite Short project description We will publish reference lists from Open Access biomedical journal articles as Linked Open Citation … Continue reading →

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Like a kid with a new train set! Exploring citation networks

Posted on July 3, 2011 by David Shotton

As part of the Open Citations Project, Alex Dutton recently completed a graphing plug-in for the Open Citations web site, that permits users to generate different kinds of graphs of citation networks by querying the Open Citation Corpus for a … Continue reading →

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JISC Open Citations Project – Final Project Blog Post

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

Executive summary Introduction To general readers of this blog, this post will appear different from normal posts. Rather than being about a particular topic, it pulls together a summary of the work undertaken over the past year within the Open … Continue reading →

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JISC Open Citations Project web site

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

The JISC Open Citations Project website at http://opencitations.net exists for several purposes: To hold introductory information about the JISC Open Citations Project. To hold contact information for the project team. To provide links to the JISC Open Citations Project Blog … Continue reading →

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Nomenclature for citations and references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

Reis et al. (2008) [1] cites an earlier paper from Albert Ko’s research group, Ko et al. (1999) [2]. In conventional parlance, as the following diagram shows, the word “reference” can mean either what is found in the text, what … Continue reading →

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The citation processing pipeline and the Open Citations Corpus

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

The input PubMed Central Open Access subset XML reference data, our starting corpus, were transformed into Open Citations RDF in multiple stages: The original XML was first transformed into an intermediate form using XSLT. The multitudinous ways different publishers have … Continue reading →

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Citation correction methods

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

As previously described, the PubMed Central Open Access subset of journal articles yielded 6,529,815 independent bibliographic records of both citing and cited entities, while our use of the PubMed Entrez API provided a further 2,304,143 bibliographic records for the same … Continue reading →

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Who wrote this paper? Author list problems in PubMed Central references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

To illustrate three kinds of problems in obtaining correct author lists for Open Citation data from articles in the PubMed Central Open Access subset (OASS), I take three examples, the first of which is the result of a publication policy, … Continue reading →

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Garbage in, garbage out – problems with bibliographic references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

The Open Citations Project has aimed to liberate bibliographic references from biomedical research literature as Open Linked Data, using as its starting corpus the Open Access Subset (OASS) of articles within PubMed Central. The greatest problem faced during this project, … Continue reading →

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Input data for Open Citations – the PMC Open Access Subset

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

PubMed, created by the US National Library of Medicine in DATE, holds bibliographic records and abstracts for essentially all journal articles published in the biomedical sciences. It currently records almost a million new entries each year! PubMed Central (PMC), created … Continue reading →

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