Kamal Singh

Opencitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship

• Authors Details :  
• David Shotton ,  
• Silvio Peroni

Journal title : Quantitative Science Studies

Publisher : MIT Press - Journals

Online ISSN : 2641-3337

Page Number : 428-444

Journal volume : 1

Journal issue : 1

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OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, thereby providing a disruptive alternative to traditional proprietary citation indexes. Open citation data are valuable for bibliometric analysis, increasing the reproducibility of large-scale analyses by enabling publication of the source data. Following brief introductions to the development and benefits of open scholarship and to Semantic Web technologies, this paper describes OpenCitations and its data sets, tools, services, and activities. These include the OpenCitations Data Model; the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies; OpenCitations’ open software of generic applicability for searching, browsing, and providing REST APIs over resource description framework (RDF) triplestores; Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs) and the OpenCitations OCI Resolution Service; the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC), a database of open downloadable bibliographic and citation data made available in RDF under a Creative Commons public domain dedication; and the OpenCitations Indexes of open citation data, of which the first and largest is COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref Open DOI-to-DOI Citations, which currently contains over 624 million bibliographic citations and is receiving considerable usage by the scholarly community.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00023

Article Subject Details

• Research

Article Keywords Details

• infrastructure service
• open citations
• OpenCitations
• OpenCitations Corpus
• OpenCitations Data Model
• OpenCitations Index
• OpenCitations Meta
• Bibliographic metadata

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