Tag Archives: DOI

Introducing InTRePIDs – In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers

Posted on January 30, 2020 by David Shotton

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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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Open Citation Identifiers

Posted on March 12, 2018 by David Shotton

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 →

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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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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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How to cite data

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

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 →

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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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DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

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 →

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