Journal Article (Preprint): “OpenCitations, An Open E-Infrastructure to Foster Maximum Reuse of Citation Data”

The article linked below (preprint) was recently submitted for publication in the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC).

Title

OpenCitations, An Open E-Infrastructure to Foster Maximum Reuse of Citation Data

Authors

Chiara Di Giambattista
Communications Director and Community Development Manager of OpenCitations

Ivan Heibi
Responsible for the OpenCitations’ Technical Infrastructure

Silvio Peroni
Director of OpenCitations

David Shotton
Director of OpenCitations

Source

via arXiv

Abstract

OpenCitations is an independent not–for–profit infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies. OpenCitations collaborates with projects that are part of the Open Science ecosystem and complies with the UNESCO founding principles of Open Science, the I4OC recommendations, and the FAIR data principles that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Since its data satisfies all the Reuse guidelines provided by FAIR in terms of richness, provenance, usage licenses and domain–relevant community standards, OpenCitations provides an example of a successful open e–infrastructure in which the reusability of data is integral to its mission.

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