Author Archives: Silvio Peroni
More than 624 million citations now available on COCI
We are now proud to announce the third release of COCI, which contains more than 624 million DOI-to-DOI citation links coming from both ‘the ‘Open’ and the ‘Limited’ sets of Crossref reference data. Continue reading
OpenCitations selected for SCOSS second funding cycle
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is launching its second funding cycle, and OpenCitations is one of three open science infrastructure organizations whose services have been evaluated and selected for presentation to the international scholarly community for … Continue reading
COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations
COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Silvio Peroni – silvio.peroni@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research … Continue reading
Using the ORCID Public API for author disambiguation in the OpenCitations Corpus
Among the external services used, the ORCID Public API is of crucial importance for the task of author disambiguation. During the OCC ingestion workflow, the main metadata of an article are usually retrieved from the Crossref API. While the JSON … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI
Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI An analysis of the current status of open citations, and a proposal Author(s) Ivan Heibi – ivan.heibi2@unibo.it Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy … Continue reading
The OpenCitations Enhancement Project – final report
The OpenCitations Enhancement Project Final report for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Report period: 1st May 2017 – 30 November 2018. Report written: 30th December 2018 Background OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the … Continue reading
The Wellcome Trust funds OpenCitations
The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus funded by the Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust, which funds research in big health challenges and campaigns for better science, has agreed to fund The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus, a new project … Continue reading
New release of COCI: 445M DOI-to-DOI citation links now available
As introduced in a previous blog post, COCI is the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references, all released as CC0 material. It is our first OpenCitations Index of open citations, in which we have applied the concept of citations … Continue reading
COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references
In a previous series of blog posts we proposed the treatment of bibliographic citations as first-class data entities, permitting citations to be endowed with descriptive properties. In doing so, we outlined some specific requirements, namely that the citations should be … Continue reading
Querying the OpenCitations Corpus
This post introduce two exemplar queries for interrogating the OpenCitations Corpus. Continue reading
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