Tag Archives: citation

Introducing InTRePIDs – In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

Rationale Readers of this blog will be familiar with Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs), described in an earlier post and formally defined in [1]. OCIs enable bibliographic citations, treated as first class information entities, to be uniquely identified and referenced, and … Continue reading →

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An entry form for DataCite metadata

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

DataCite is an international organization responsible for the DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) issued for research datasets.  For each DOI issued, DataCite requires the data publisher to create and submit to DataCite descriptive metadata that can aid resource discovery.  These metadata … Continue reading →

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Revising the DataCite2RDF mapping document

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

The purpose of mapping DataCite metadata elements to ontology terms is to enable DataCite metadata to be published in RDF as Open Linked Data, enabling these metadata to be understood programmatically and integrated automatically with similar data from elsewhere. In … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Access to Citation Data

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

The JISC, in response to its invitation to tender, has recently funded Curtis+Cartwright Consulting Ltd, a research and strategy consultancy, to undertake an independent study entitled Access to Citation Data: A Cost-Benefit and Risk Review and Forward Look.  Evidence gathering … Continue reading →

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Why publishers should open their references

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Why should the publishers of subscription-access journals, who presently generate income from the sale of access to peer-reviewed full text scholarly articles, be willingly open the reference lists of these articles, and contribute these to the Open Citations Corpus for … Continue reading →

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Five Stars Ontology

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology … Continue reading →

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Five Stars article published in D-Lib Magazine

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

I recently posted a brief description of  an article entitled The Five Stars of Journal Articles, pointing to a preprint of this article in Nature Preceedings.  This is to announce that a revised and extended version of that article has … Continue reading →

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JISC Administrative Data for Open Citations Project

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

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

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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