Tag Archives: datacite

The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Want to keep yourself updated about the ongoing activities of OpenCitations? We have now publicly released the OpenCitations Roadmap, available on Trello.com: https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations The OpenCitations Roadmap consists of a board fulfilled with colour-labelled cards which present the goals so far … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and EC funding: OpenAIRE Nexus and RISIS2

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The incentives for new OpenCitations innovative solutions Two years ago, in their canonical 2020 QSS paper on OpenCitations, Silvio Peroni and David Shotton anticipated the creation of the new database, OpenCitations Meta, able to “offer a faster and richer service” … Continue reading →

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Open citations in Informatics: current status and lines of research

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Silvio Peroni

This post was first published on QWERTY: musings from the rabbit hole, a blog by Silvio Peroni A few months ago, I was invited to have a talk at the European Computer Science Symposium on an aspect of my research I particularly care about, that … Continue reading →

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An entry form for DataCite metadata

Posted on December 4, 2012 by David Shotton

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 David Shotton

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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Revising the DataCite Ontology

Posted on November 8, 2012 by David Shotton

In a previous blog post, I described the work that Silvio Peroni and I undertook in May 2011 to map the main terms from the DataCite Metadata Kernel v2.0 to RDF. To enable that, we created a ‘proto-ontology’, the DataCite … Continue reading →

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Comments on IS DATA PUBLICATION THE RIGHT METAPHOR?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by David Shotton

Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor? is an essay by Mark Parsons and Peter Fox to be published in the Data Science Journal, for which a preprint has been provided for open pre-publication community peer review at http://mp-datamatters.blogspot.com/2011/12/seeking-open-review-of-provocative-data.html. To supplement … Continue reading →

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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence.  Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading →

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Pensoft Journals policy and author guidelines on data publication and citation

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

In a recent blog post, Heather Piwowar, in discussing the advantages of citing datasets in the reference list of the article, said “No journals have standardized on this approach so far”. However, Pensoft Journals, a publisher that specializes in publishing … Continue reading →

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Questions of granularity – Dryad’s use of DataCite DOIs for data citation, and the Annotation Ontology

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

DataCite is an international organisation, founded in 2009, which promotes the use of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for published datasets, in order to establish easier access to research data, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate contributions in the … Continue reading →

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