Tag Archives: DOI
Introducing InTRePIDs – In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers
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
Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Open Citation Identifiers
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 fourth of these requirements is that they must be identifiable using … Continue reading
Pensoft Journals policy and author guidelines on data publication and citation
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
How to cite data
As an approach towards developing best practice for data citation, I recently wrote a Data Citation Best Practice Discussion Document that is available on Google Docs, and that I have now slightly revised to Version 2 [1]. In that document, … Continue reading
Questions of granularity – Dryad’s use of DataCite DOIs for data citation, and the Annotation Ontology
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
DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies
The DataCite Metadata Kernel version 2.0 [1] specifies the minimal metadata, and optional metadata, that should accompany a DataCite DOI for the identification of a published data entity. Within the Metadata Kernel document there is an XML mapping of these … Continue reading
