Category Archives: Open Citations

Ten next steps for semantic authors and publishers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

Note added 30 May 2013 Additional information concerning the use of OAI-ORE to specify aggregations of research outputs into data packages and research objects has been added at the end of this blog post. – – – Journal publishing has … Continue reading →

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CiTO Reference Annotation Tools

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

The characterization or ‘typing’ of bibliographic citations is the provision of annotations that detail the reason or reasons why the author of the citing paper cites a particular cited paper listed in the citing paper’s reference list. Such annotation is … 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 my Open Citations Blog at http://opencitations.wordpress.com/. However, because of the merger of the Open Citations Project with the Related Work Project, described here, the Open Citations Blog has been … 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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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence.  Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading →

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Nomenclature for citations and references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

Reis et al. (2008) [1] cites an earlier paper from Albert Ko’s research group, Ko et al. (1999) [2]. In conventional parlance, as the following diagram shows, the word “reference” can mean either what is found in the text, what … 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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Functional clustering of CiTO properties

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

Note added 15 May 2013 A new ontology, the CiTO Functions Ontology (http://www.essepuntato.it/2013/03/cito-functions), provides a formal classification for the citation types present in CiTO. It classifies CiTO properties (each defining a particular type of citation act) according to their factual … Continue reading →

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Using CiTO in WordPress

Posted on February 25, 2011 by David Shotton

In his recent blog post entitled How to use Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) in your blog posts, Martin Fenner describes a plug-in for WordPress he has created that makes it easy to add citation typing into your blog post, using … Continue reading →

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How to employ CiTO in CiteULike

Posted on October 21, 2010 by David Shotton

Jodi Schneider of DERI has posted on her blog at http://jodischneider.com/blog/2010/10/18/cito-in-the-wild/ a most helpful description of how to employ CiTO properties characterizing bibliographic citations as tags for references in CiteULike. Thanks, Jodi!

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