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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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Open Citations Extension Project

Posted on July 16, 2012 by David Shotton

I am pleased to announce that the JISC have funded an extension to the Open Citations Project to run from 1st August 2012 until 31st January 2013, during which we will review and revise the technology used to create the … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by David Shotton

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 David Shotton

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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The plate tectonics of research data publication

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In biology, the fields of macromolecular structural biology and sequence bioinformatics have, since the 1970s, had established international databases for the deposition of data, and journal policies mandating such deposition prior to acceptance for publication of manuscripts describing the data.  … Continue reading →

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Current Projects at the Image Bioinformatics Research Group in Oxford

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

Alistair Miles, of SKOS fame, who formerly worked in our research group, spent yesterday afternoon catching up with us, and has written a nice blog post on the MalariaGEN Informatics Blog describing our current activities, including our work on the … Continue reading →

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JISC Administrative Data for Open Citations Project

Posted on July 3, 2011 by David Shotton

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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JISC Open Citations Project – Final Project Blog Post

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

Executive summary Introduction To general readers of this blog, this post will appear different from normal posts. Rather than being about a particular topic, it pulls together a summary of the work undertaken over the past year within the Open … Continue reading →

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