[Open-access] Fwd: IMS Data for Open Citations

Wed Jun 13 08:46:55 UTC 2012

In case you haven't see this, Nature has made its metadata Open CC0. This
is good news for our Bibliographic activities. It means we can build a
Bibserver with NPG metadata and also use this to promote our activities.

I would guess that historians will recognize the role that OKFN has played
in promoting the idea of Open Bibliographic Data.

Hopefully other publishers will follow suit.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Shotton <david.shotton at zoo.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: IMS Data for Open Citations
To: Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>, Josh BROWN <j.brown at jisc.ac.uk>,
Neil Jacobs <n.jacobs at jisc.ac.uk>

 Dear Jim,

This is great news about IMS.  Because we have very limited funding at
present, I think we will try to walk before we can run, and work out how to
incorporate citation data from a small number of high profile
subscription-access publishers first, before opening the door wide.  So
please don't be impatient - we will not get to IMS until 2013!  As for
hosting, formats, etc., the details given at http://opencitations.net may
evolve as we gear up.  However, if the reference lists of the journals
involved are already being sent to CrossRef as part of their Cited-By
Linking service, all the publisher will have to do is say "yes", and we
will collect the references direct from CrossRef and host the RDF.  No work
to do, and no additional cost!  Details of our data cleaning activities are
given at:

http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/garbage-in-garbage-out-problems-with-bibliographic-references/,

http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/who-wrote-this-paper-author-list-problems-in-pubmed-central-references/,
and
http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/citation-correction-methods/.

I would value an e-mail introduction to David Tranah of CUP, and will then
try to get them on board.

Many thanks for responding so swiftly.

Kind regards,

David

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On 12/06/2012 20:08, Jim Pitman wrote:

David, delighted to see your post
http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/nature-to-open-its-reference-list-data/
I have approval in principle from the Insitute of Mathematical
Statistics http://imstat.org to open up the metadata and citations
data from IMS Journals listed at http://imstat.org/publications/
I am working on getting an inventory of where the source data is
and what format its in. I could really use some advice on next steps,
e.g. where to get the data hosted, in what format, etc. If you have
any capability for conversion/cleaning of data to good formats I'm
sure that would be appreciated by IMS.

I also talked to a rep of CUP (David Tranah) recently, and he seemed
to indicate CUP would have no problem opening up its data. I'd
be glad to pursue this, but you may be in a better position to do so.
Generally, I think we need a roadmap for exactly what steps a publisher
needs to take to publish their citation data in a useful way, with
indications of what costs may be involved.

Great to see the progress on this front!

with best wishes

--Jim
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