Given the renewed interest among publishers in the Open Citations Corpus, following the decisions by Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science, to open their citation data for inclusion in the corpus, I thought it would be helpful to provide links to videos of two conference presentations I gave that describe the Open Citations Corpus in the context of our other work in the area of semantic publishing.
The first of these was an invited contribution with the title Enriching Scientific Citations to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery, given to publishers at the Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers Innovations Seminar 2010 entitled “Flows in Flux: how publishing technologies change the researcher’s life”, held in London, UK, on 3rd December 2010:
lecture: http://river-valley.tv/media/conferences/stm-innovation-2010/0202-David-Shotton/
abstract: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2010/Presentations/STM_Innovations_Seminar_2010_ABSTRACTS.pdf
The second presentation, given almost a year later, was an invited contribution with the title The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies and the Open Citation Corpus, given to librarians at SWIB11 (Semantic Web in Bibliotheken; Semantic Web in Libraries Conference 2011) “Scholarly Communication in the Web of Data”, held in Hambrug, Germany on 30th November 2011:
lecture: http://www.scivee.tv/node/39208
abstract: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2011/presentations/Shotton_Abstract_for_Presentation_at_SWIB11.pdf
Further details of the Open Citations Corpus and the SPAR ontologies, and their applications are, of course, given in this Open Citations and Semantic Publishing blog, for which the following two posts provide the best introduction for those coming here for the first time:
JISC Open Citations Project – Final Project Blog Post
Introducing the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies
OpenCitations blog 