University of Oxford

David M. Shotton

Data copied from JISC Expo DOAP (Description of a Project) spreadsheet
at
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**Project title**: The Open Citations Project

**Project tag**: jiscopencite

**Short project description**

We will publish reference lists from Open Access biomedical journal
articles as Linked Open Citation Data at
h[ttp://opencitations.net](//opencitations.net).

**Long project description**

The Open Citations Project is global in scope, designed to change the
face of scientific publishing and scholarly communication. Specifically,
it aims to make it possible to publish bibliographic and citation
information in RDF and to make citation links as easy to traverse as Web
links.

To achieve this goal, we have had four primary aims:

- To create a semantic infrastructure that makes possible the
 description of citations, references and bibliographic entities in
 RDF, since we found existing ontologies inadequate for our purpose.
- To extend that semantic infrastructure to handle data citations and
 data entities, as well as bibliographic citations and bibliographic
 entities, mindful of Philip Bourne's prediction that soon there will
 be no meaningful difference between a journal article and a database
 entry.
- To provide exemplars of how these ontologies can be applied to
 real-world data, by creating mappings from existing encodings to RDF,
 and by creating RDF metadata relating to bibliographic and data
 entities and their citations.
- To convert the reference lists within all the PMC Open Access subset
 articles to RDF, and to publish them as open linked data that third
 parties can use in novel ways.

**Principle deliverables and outputs**

- The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies.
- Graffoo and LODE, two novel tools for ontology visualization and
 documentation.
- Mappings of various existing metadata schemes to RDF using SPAR.
- Development of data citation methods and protocols
- The Open Citations Corpus of bibliographic citation data encoded in
 RDF and published as Open Linked Data.
- The OpenCitations.net web site, to provide user access to the Open
 Citations Corpus.
- The Open Citations Project software used for processing the Pubmed
 Central Open Access corpus into Open Linked Data.

The net result is open citation data from life science journal articles
available on the web, for utilization by academics, for citation network
analysis applications, and for tracking the impact of research grant
funding.

**Secondary deliverables and outputs**

Blog posts describing the experience and process by which the primary
products from the project was produced:
<http://opencitations.wordpress.com/>.

**JISC Website Keywords**

Data & Text Mining

Data Services & Collections

Open Technologies

Resource Discovery

Standards, Tools & Techniques

Web 2.0

**Name of lead institution**: University of Oxford

**Department where project is primarily locate**: Department of Zoology

**Postcode where the project team is primarily based**:  OX1 3PS

**Name of person(s) responsible for JISC project documentation and
reporting**: Dr David Shotton

**Email of person responsible for project documentation and reporting**:
david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk

**Phone / Skype for Person responsible for project documentation**:
01865-271193 / skype: davidshotton

**Names and roles of all people working on the project team**

Dr David Shotton, Principal Investigator and Project Manager

Mr Benjamin O'Steen, Technical Developer -- employed 50% FT from
01-07-2010 to 30-06-2011

Mr John Mansfield, Citation Data Manager -- employed 100% FT from
14-07-2010 to 13-08-2010

Mr Alex Dutton, Citation Data Manager -- employed 50% FT from 04-10-2010
to 30-06-2011

**Names and roles of any and all project partners**: None

**Emails** of all the team members, consultants, partners and any other
person who will be working on or with the project

David Shotton \<david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk\>

Benjamin O'Steen \<bosteen@gmail.com\>

John Mansfield \<jbmansfield@gmail.com\>

Silvio Peroni \<speroni@cs.unibo.it\>

Peter Murray-Rust \<pm286@cam.ac.uk\> (PI of Open Bibliography sister
project -- liaison)

**Named end users who will be testing or using your software outputs**

Anusha Ranganathan \<anusha.ranganathan@bodleian.ox.ac.uk\>

Steve Pettifer \<steve.pettifer@manchester.ac.uk\>

Tim Clark \<twclark@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu\>

Paolo Ciccarese \<paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com\>

Rahul Dave \<rahuldave@gmail.com\>

Alberto Accomazzi \<aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu\>

Martin Fenner \<fenner.martin@mh-hannover.de\>

Egon Willighagen \<egon.willighagen@gmail.com\>

See also Final Blog Post
[http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/jisc-open-citations-project-%E2%80%93-final-project-blog-post/](https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/203).

**Number of named end users**: 8

**Project gmail account**: None. Use \<david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk\>

**Project blog URI**:
[http://opencitations.wordpress.com](../../../../../)

**RSS2 or ATOM feed for project blog**:
[http://opencitations.wordpress.com/?feed=atom](../../../../../?feed=atom)

**URL of the code repository for versioned source code produced by
project**: <https://github.com/opencitations/>

See also http://github.com/benosteen/pairtree
http://github.com/benosteen/rdfobject http://bitbucket.org/okfn/ofs
http://code.google.com/p/opencitations/source/browse

**URL for instructional documentation**: <http://opencitations.net/>

**OSS license you will you be using for the code generated from
project**: MIT license

**Analytics Engine on your project blog, code repository and any other
project web presence**: Google Analytics being installed.

**Creative Commons Licence used for project presentations and
documentation**: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

**Creative Commons Licence used for project content**: CCZero waiver

**Project Start Date**: 2010-06-01

**Project End Date**: 2011-06-30, extended to 2011-08-01

**Total amount of money awarded to the project in Grant Letter**:
£99,998

**Name of Institutional Budget Manager**: Miriam Wood
\<miriam.wood@zoo.ox.ac.uk\>

**Link to final project post**:
<https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/jisc-open-citations-project-%E2%80%93-final-project-blog-post/>

**PIMS URL for Project**: <https://pims.jisc.ac.uk/projects/view/1866>

**Link to Final Approved Published Budget**: Pending.

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Data copied from JISC Expo DOAP (Description of a Project) spreadsheet at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArsNASxXZiL6dC1mWWFMMjRWSmVha0E1WmdlQ05KcEE&amp;hl=en#gid=7.

 Project title

: The Open Citations Project

 Project tag

: jiscopencite

 Short project description

We will publish reference lists from Open Access biomedical journal articles as Linked Open Citation Data at

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

JISC Administrative Data for Open Citations Project