Tag Archives: semantic publishing

Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on March 23, 2018 by David Shotton

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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Three publications describing the Open Citations Corpus

Posted on January 24, 2014 by David Shotton

Last September, I attended the Fifth Annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, held in Riga, at which I had been invited to give a paper entitled The Open Citations Corpus – freeing scholarly citation data.  A recording of my … Continue reading →

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The start of something new

Posted on February 1, 2013 by David Shotton

Previously, my blog posts relating to semantic publishing have appeared in this Open Citations Blog. However, because of the merger of the Open Citations Project with the Related Work Project, described here, this Open Citations Blog has been renamed Open … Continue reading →

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Open letter to publishers

Posted on January 3, 2013 by David Shotton

[The text of this post was updated on 27-09-2013 and 04-04-2017 to reflect a new CrossRef metadata best practice document and a change in their URI.] Today I wrote an open letter to all scholarly journal publishers, available online here, … Continue reading →

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Taylor & Francis to open article reference lists

Posted on January 3, 2013 by David Shotton

I am very pleased to announce that last year Ian Bannerman, Managing Director for Journals at Taylor & Francis, confirmed this publisher’s willingness to pilot the opening of the reference lists from articles in 29 of their subscription access journals, … Continue reading →

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An entry form for JATS metadata

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  As described in the previous post, we have mapped the metadata elements of the JATS Journal … Continue reading →

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Mapping JATS to RDF

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  In this post, I describe the mapping of JATS to RDF, so that publishers’ XML article … 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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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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