Silvio Peroni

## The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus funded by the Wellcome Trust

The [Wellcome Trust](https://wellcome.ac.uk/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}, which funds research in big health
challenges and campaigns for better science, has agreed to fund **The
Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus**, a new project to enhance
the OpenCitations Corpus, as part of the [Open Research Fund
programme](https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/open-research-fund).

As readers of this blog will know, the [OpenCitations
Corpus](http://opencitations.net/corpus){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"} is an open scholarly citation database that
freely and legally makes available accurate citation data (academic
references) to assist scholars with their academic studies, and to serve
knowledge to the wider public.

## Objectives

**The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus**, funded by the
Wellcome Trust for 12 months from March 2019, will make the
OpenCitations Corpus (OCC) more useful to the academic community by
significantly expanding the kinds of citation data held within the
Corpus, so as to provide data for each **individual in-text reference
and its semantic context**, making it possible to distinguish references
that are cited only once from those that are cited multiple times, to
see which references are cited together (e.g. in the same sentence), to
determine in which section of the article references are cited (e.g.
Introduction, Methods), and, potentially, to retrieve the function of
the citation.

At [OpenCitations](http://opencitations.net), we will achieve these
objectives in the following ways:

- by extending the OpenCitations Data Model so as to describe how the
  in-text reference data should be modeled in RDF for inclusion in the
  OpenCitations Corpus;
- by develping scripts for extracting in-text references from articles
  within the Open Access Subset of biomedical literature hosted by
  Europe PubMed Central;
- by extending the existing ingestion workflow so as to add the new
  in-text reference data into the Corpus;
- by developing appropriate user interfaces for querying and browsing
  these new data.

## Personnel

We are looking for a post-doctoral computer scientist / research
engineer specifically to achieves the aforementioned objectives. This
post-doctoral appointment will start the **1st of March 2019**. We seek
a highly intelligent, skilled and motivated individual who is expert in
Python, Semantic Web technologies, Linked Data and Web technologies.
Additional expertise in Web Interface Design and Information
Visualization would be highly beneficial, plus a strong and demonstrable
commitment to open science and team-working abilities.

The minimal formal requirement for this position is a Masters degree in
computer science, computer science and engineering, telecommunications
engineering, or **equivalent title**, but it is expected that the
successful applicant will have had research experience leading to a
doctoral degree. The position has a **net salary** (exempt from income
tax, after deduction of social security contributions) in excess of
**23K euros per year**.

The formal advertisement for this post -- which will be held at the
Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of
Computer Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna,
Italy, under the supervision of Dr Silvio Peroni -- is published
[online](https://www.aricweb.unibo.it/AssegniRicerca_Segretari/_bandi/2008/Bando42539%5B58441%5DTutorColloquio_eng.Htm),
and it is accompanied by the [activity
plan](https://www.aricweb.unibo.it/AssegniRicerca_Richieste/_doc/ID%5B58441%5DPiano_di_attivita__Activity_plan.pdf)
(in Italian and English). The application must be presented exclusively
online by logging in the website <https://concorsi.unibo.it> (default in
Italian, but there is a link to switch the language in English). People
who do not have a *@unibo.it* email account must register to the
platform. The deadline for application is the **25th January 2019 at
15:00 Central Europe Time**. Please feel free to contact Silvio Peroni
(silvio *dot* peroni *at* unibo *dot* it) for further information.

## People involved

The people formally involved in the projects are:

- Vincent Larivière -- École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de
  l'Information, Université de Montréal, Canada;
- Silvio Peroni (Principal Investigator) -- Digital Humanities Advanced
  Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Computer Classical Philology
  and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Italy, and Director of
  OpenCitations;
- David Shotton -- Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford,
  Oxford, UK, and Director of OpenCitations;
- Ludo Waltman -- Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS),
  Leiden University, Netherlands.

In addition, the project is supported by Europe PubMed Central
(EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK).


The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus funded by the Wellcome Trust   The Wellcome Trust, which funds research in big health challenges and campaigns for better science, has agreed to fund
<strong>
 The Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus
</strong>
, a new project to enhance the OpenCitations Corpus, as part of the Open Research Fund programme.

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