[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap

Tom Johnson johnson.tom at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 01:59:47 UTC 2013 

I've had pretty good luck with it. We're trying to use this data to do some
auto-filling during submission to our repository. It's not perfect, but I'd
certainly rate it useful.

This is a pretty typical response:

$ curl -LH "Accept: text/turtle" http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/07-203
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .

<http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/07-203>
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier> "10.3852/07-203";
    <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs> <info:doi/10.3852/07-203>,
<doi:10.3852/07-203>;
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/doi> "10.3852/07-203";
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/doi> "10.3852/07-203";
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/date> "2009-01-01Z"^^<
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>;
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/volume> "101";
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/volume> "101";
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/pageStart> "129";
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/pageEnd> "135";
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/startingPage> "129";
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/endingPage> "135";
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> "Phytophthora rosacearum and P.
sansomeana, new species segregated from the Phytophthora megasperma
\"complex\"";
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/publisher> "Mycological Society of America";
    a <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Article>;
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf> <
http://id.crossref.org/issn/0027-5514>;
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> <
http://id.crossref.org/contributor/e-m-hansen-2iohzxipawvj7>, <
http://id.crossref.org/contributor/w-f-wilcox-2iohzxipawvj7>, <
http://id.crossref.org/contributor/p-w-reeser-2iohzxipawvj7>, <
http://id.crossref.org/contributor/w-sutton-2iohzxipawvj7> .

<http://id.crossref.org/issn/0027-5514>
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> "Mycologia";
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/issn> "0027-5514";
    <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/eissn> "1557-2536";
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/issn> "0027-5514";
    <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.1/eIssn> "1557-2536";
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart> <http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/07-203>;
    a <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Journal>;
    <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs> <urn:issn:0027-5514>;
    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier> "0027-5514" .

<http://id.crossref.org/contributor/e-m-hansen-2iohzxipawvj7>
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "E. M. Hansen";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "E. M.";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/familyName> "Hansen";
    a <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .

<http://id.crossref.org/contributor/w-f-wilcox-2iohzxipawvj7>
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "W. F. Wilcox";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "W. F.";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/familyName> "Wilcox";
    a <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .

<http://id.crossref.org/contributor/p-w-reeser-2iohzxipawvj7>
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "P. W. Reeser";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "P. W.";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/familyName> "Reeser";
    a <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .

<http://id.crossref.org/contributor/w-sutton-2iohzxipawvj7>
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "W. Sutton";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "W.";
    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/familyName> "Sutton";
    a <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .



On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Mark MacGillivray <
mark.macgillivray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Crossref are also working on providing bibJSON bib metadata by content
> negotiation. From what I have seen, what it provides is only whatever the
> publishers have provided and in a lot of cases it is unfortunately not very
> useful - for example, not including title and authors or any unique ID. The
> data that is supplied meets the definition of open bibliographic metadata
> as per the open biblio principles. But I don't know if license is
> explicitly stated anywhere.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:59 PM, <johnson.tom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Re: serials metadata.
>>
>> CrossRef serves up metadata (RDF, and BibTex) via content negotiation.
>> It's not directly from the publishers, but it is submitted by them as a
>> part of the DOI registration process.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there is clear licensing or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 19, 2013, at 13:54, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I was thinking of sound recordings, since, AFAIK, the market for scores
>> is pretty much a niche market. Much of the impetus for creating and
>> spreading metadata has been online sales sites like Amazon, and perhaps
>> iTunes (although I do not know where the latter gets its metadata from).
>> You can easily find studies addressed to the publishing industry about
>> metadata and sales -- although, in fact, these aren't as conclusive as one
>> might hope.
>> >
>> > kc
>> >
>> > On 1/19/13 1:18 PM, Matthew Dovey wrote:
>> >> I must confess when I first saw the posts about publishers giving
>> metadata
>> >> away, I initially read that as referencing monograph/book publishers
>> since
>> >> these are likely to see the metadata as purely advertising/marketing
>> >> material to the like of Amazon et al. and didn't initially think of
>> serials.
>> >>
>> >> I think there may also be different economic models in the music
>> publishing
>> >> world as well - when you say "music publishers" are you talking about
>> >> publishers of music scores or publishers of musical performances (e.g.
>> >> audio/video)?
>> >>
>> >> Matthew
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>> open-bibliography-
>> >>> bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
>> >>> Sent: 19 January 2013 20:44
>> >>> To: Peter Murray-Rust; List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic
>> Data
>> >>> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on
>> building
>> >>> a bibliographic roadmap
>> >>>
>> >>> Right, the folks giving away their metadata (because it helps sales)
>> are
>> >>> generally the book publishers. Journal publication has an entirely
>> >> different
>> >>> economic model because it' isn't a one-time sale but a subscription,
>> and I
>> >>> haven't found a publisher-provided metadata for journal publications
>> >> (which
>> >>> would cover the publication, not its contents). If journal publishers
>> >> would get
>> >>> away from the serial view and publish and sell articles as
>> monographs, we
>> >>> might see a major change in their view of metadata. In fact, the whole
>> >>> journal format is beginning to look old-fashioned to me as a product
>> >>> category.
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't know yet about music publishers -- I don't think they yet
>> have a
>> >>> standard metadata format.
>> >>>
>> >>> kc.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 1/19/13 11:51 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net
>> >>>> <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>     Sorry, Roy. Just wanted some examples of publishers making their
>> >>>>     ONIX data openly available. I'll look for a better example.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks - and I assume that Bibserver can hack this. It looks like
>> it's
>> >>>> monographs not serials.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> P.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> >>>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> >>>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> >>>> University of Cambridge
>> >>>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> >>>> +44-1223-763069
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Karen Coyle
>> >>> kcoyle at kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>> >>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> >>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> >>> skype: kcoylenet
>> >>>
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Karen Coyle
>> > kcoyle at kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
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>> > m: 1-510-435-8234
>> > skype: kcoylenet
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