Category Archives: Citations as First-Class Data Entities

Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

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 →

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The OpenCitations Enhancement Project – final report

Posted on January 2, 2019 by

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 →

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New release of COCI: 450M DOI-to-DOI citation links now available

Posted on November 19, 2018 by

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 →

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COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references

Posted on July 12, 2018 by

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 →

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Workshop on Open Citations

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

OpenCitations [1], the EXCITE Project [2] and Europe PubMed Central [3] are pleased to announce a Workshop on Open Citations at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy [4] on 3-5 September – https://workshop-oc.github.io. Format and topics Day One and … Continue reading →

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Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

OpenCitations is very pleased to announce its collaboration with four new scholarly Research and Development projects that are early adopters of the recently updated OpenCitations Data Model, described in this blog post. The four projects are similar, in that they … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The Open Citation Identifier Resolution Service

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

Requirements for citations to be treated as first-class data entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The fifth and final of these requirements is that there must be … Continue reading →

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