Chiara Di Giambattista

Want to keep yourself updated about the ongoing activities of
OpenCitations? We have now publicly released the OpenCitations Roadmap,
available on Trello.com:

[https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations](https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations){rel="noreferrer noopener"
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The OpenCitations Roadmap consists of a board fulfilled with
colour-labelled cards which present the goals so far reached, the
present projects and activities, and the future plans. By clicking on
the cards, it is possible to visualize a description for each activity,
the progress state, and who in the OpenCitations team is working on it.

The OpenCitations Roadmap covers all kinds of activities divided
according to the scope, identified by the coloured labels, in
particular:

- light blue for the technical development, such as the development of
  the software for the creation of the new database OpenCitations Meta
  and of DOCI, the OpenCitations Index of DataCite open DOI-to-DOI
  citations, and the re-engineering of the infrastructure and the
  website;
- green for the data model implementation;
- yellow for the data development, such as the bi-monthly COCI releases;
- purple for the events and outreach activities.

The cards also highlight the activities related to the two [EC-funded
projects](https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/1510){data-type="URL"
data-id="https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/1510"} OpenCitations is
involved in, OpenAIRE Nexus (blue label) and RISIS2 (orange label). We
thank the OpenAIRE team for the help and suggestions during the Roadmap
review process.

The OpenCitations Roadmap is an open work in progress that will reflect
the developments and growth of OpenCitations. At OpenCitations, we don't
want this Roadmap to be just an online 'showcase', but a room in which
to share ideas and opinions. We invite you -- the members of our
community, our stakeholders, the other Open Science actors, researchers,
and librarians, and anyone who is interested in OpenCitations activities
-- to add a comment or a question in the '[Leave
feedback](https://trello.com/c/60vgJa74){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}' card. This will help us to better understand our
strong and weak points, and to stay in touch with the needs and thoughts
of the community.

In this way, supplementing the conventional communications channels of
[email](mailto:contact@opencitations.net) and the social platforms (our
[blog](https://opencitations.wordpress.com/),
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/opencitations),
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/opencitations)), the
OpenCitations Roadmap will become a new virtual place for dialogue,
where you can directly contribute to improve OpenCitations.


Want to keep yourself updated about the ongoing activities of OpenCitations? We have now publicly released the OpenCitations Roadmap, available on Trello.com:  https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations  The OpenCitations Roadmap consists of a board fulfilled with colour-labelled cards which present the goals so far reached, the present projects and activities, and the future plans.

The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello

University of Oxford

David M. Shotton

## The OpenCitations Enhancement Project funded by Sloan

The [Alfred P. Sloan Foundation](https://sloan.org/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}, which funds research and education in
science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics, including a
number of key technology projects relating to scholarly communication,
has agreed to fund **The OpenCitations Enhancement Project**, a new
project to develop and enhance the OpenCitations Corpus.

As readers of this blog will know, the [OpenCitations
Corpus](http://opencitations.net/){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 OpenCitations Enhancement Project**, funded by the Sloan
Foundation for 18 months from May 2017, will make the OpenCitations
Corpus (OCC) more useful to the academic community both by significantly
expanding the volume of citation data held within the Corpus, and by
developing novel data visualizations and query services over the stored
data.

At OpenCitations, we will achieve these objectives in the following
ways:

\(a\) By establishing a new powerful physical server to handle the
Corpus data and offer adequate performance for query services.

\(b\) By increasing the rate of data ingest into the Corpus, by
integrating with server 30 small data-ingest computers, Raspberry Pi
3Bs, working in parallel to harvest references, thus increasing the
current rate of corpus data ingest some thirty-fold to about half a
million citation links per day.

\(c\) By employing a post-doctoral computer science research engineer
specifically to develop information visualisation interfaces and
sense-making tools that will both provide smart ways of envisaging and
comprehending the citation data stored within the OpenCitations Corpus,
and will also ease the task of manual curation of the OCC.

## Personnel

This post-doctoral appointment will start in the autumn of 2017, once
the new hardware has been commissioned and programmed. We seek a highly
intelligent, skilled and motivated individual who is an expert in Web
Interface Design and Information Visualization, and who can demonstrate
a commitment to increasing the openness of scholarly information. A
formal advertisement for this post, which will be held at the University
of Bologna in Italy under the supervision of Dr Silvio Peroni, will be
published in the near future. In the mean time, individuals with the
relevant skills and background who would like to express early interest
in joining the OpenCitations team in this role should contact him by
e-mail to \<silvio.peroni@opencitations.net\>.

## Expected Outcomes

By the end of the OpenCitations Enhancement Project, we will have
harvested approximately 190 million citation links obtained from the
reference lists of about 4.4 million scholarly articles (\~15% of Web of
Science's coverage). In this way, in a significant initial step towards
the comprehensive literature coverage we seek for the OCC, we will
establish the OpenCitations Corpus as a valuable and persistent
free-to-use global scholarly on-line Linked Open Data service.

In so doing, we aim at empower the global community by liberating
scholarly citation data from their current commercial shackles,
publishing such data with a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain
Dedication that will enable novel third-party services to be built over
them.


The OpenCitations Enhancement Project funded by Sloan   The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics, including a number of key technology projects relating to scholarly communication, has agreed to fund
<strong>
 The OpenCitations Enhancement Project
</strong>
, a new project to develop and enhance the OpenCitations Corpus.

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The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello

The Sloan Foundation funds OpenCitations