Tag Archives: OpenCitations Corpus

Using the ORCID Public API for author disambiguation in the OpenCitations Corpus

Posted on February 16, 2019 by

Among the external services used, the ORCID Public API is of crucial importance for the task of author disambiguation. During the OCC ingestion workflow, the main metadata of an article are usually retrieved from the Crossref API. While the JSON … Continue reading →

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The OpenCitations Enhancement Project – final report

Posted on January 2, 2019 by

The OpenCitations Enhancement Project Final report for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Report period: 1st May 2017 – 30 November 2018. Report written: 30th December 2018 Background OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Open Citations

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

OpenCitations [1], the EXCITE Project [2] and Europe PubMed Central [3] are pleased to announce a Workshop on Open Citations at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy [4] on 3-5 September – https://workshop-oc.github.io. Format and topics Day One and … Continue reading →

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Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

OpenCitations is very pleased to announce its collaboration with four new scholarly Research and Development projects that are early adopters of the recently updated OpenCitations Data Model, described in this blog post. The four projects are similar, in that they … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The Open Citation Identifier Resolution Service

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

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 fifth and final of these requirements is that there must be … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Open Citation Identifiers

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

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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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The OpenCitations Corpus

Posted on March 4, 2018 by

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 third of these requirements is that they must be storable, searchable … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on February 25, 2018 by

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 second of these requirements is that they must have metadata structured … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Introduction

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

Citations are now centre stage As a result of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), launched on April 6 last year, almost all the major scholarly publishers now open the reference lists they submit to Crossref, resulting in more than … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations: A Clarification

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

Some folk are confused, but OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations, despite the similarity of their names, are two distinct organizations. OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is an open scholarly infrastructure organization directed by Silvio Peroni and myself, and its primary purpose … Continue reading →

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