@dshotton

Director (with @essepuntato) of OpenCitations , an infrastructure organization providing open scholarly citations and bibliographic metadata as Linked Data.

 Oxford, UK
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Joined June 2009
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I4OC@i4oc_org11 Apr 2022
More open citation data available! We're excited to report that all publications by @UChicagoPress—journal articles, books, book chapters—registered with @CrossrefOrg (nearly half a million records) have enabled open reference distribution. crossref.org/members/prep/20…
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Honoured to receive this award. So far, OpenCitations has picked the low-hanging fruit. Now the hard work starts: to extend the global open citation graph to include all those publications not using Crossref DOIs - see Academia’s missing references opencitations.wordpress.com/….
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Just added 334 million #citations to #COCI, for an overall amount of 1.09 BILLION #DOItoDOI citation links, including @elsevier references on @crossref. A threshold confirming the essential value of @I4OC! #OpenAccess #CitationData #OpenCitations opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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Call for Applications now open (deadline: 7 Feb 2021) for a 3-year position to work on strengthening the current technical and computational infrastructure of #OpenCitations – more info at opencitations.wordpress.com/… Please retweet and share! #OpenScience #OpenInfra #OpenData #OA
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Thanks, Ross, but we also must acknowledge the hard work of all those other good folk involved in the Initiative for Open Citations, spearheaded by Dario Taraborelli @ReaderMeter
Arcadia Fund@ArcadiaFund16 Dec 2020
Elsevier announced it will be opening up reference lists of all articles via @CrossrefOrg. Can’t overestimate the hard work of @essepuntato @dshotton @opencitations in making this happen. Congratulations! elsevier.com/connect/advanci…
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David Shotton retweeted
Redalyc@Redalyc14 Dec 2020
Contribute to the sustainability of @opencitations. Support them by becoming a member or via donations. More info: opencitations.net Pronouncement of interest to contribute through @scossfunding forms.gle/2TAiDicieFiJgP4f7
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Of relevance to this discussion: opencitations.wordpress.com/… #SocialDilemma and #OpenAcademicAnalytics

The Social Dilemma and open academic analytics

Last night I watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma ( in which former employees of the big Silicon Valley social media companies expose the serious and sometimes tragic or even fatal co…

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Where Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata fit within in the whole Open Science scenario may be illustrated by the Open Science Layer Cake:
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Hear how Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata play a key role in the whole Open Science scenario:
Initiative for Open Abstracts@open_abstracts5 Oct 2020
Join us later today in the public launch event of the Initiative for Open Abstracts #I4OA; registration is still open tinyurl.com/i4oa-webinar
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, a new initiative that calls for unrestricted availability of abstracts to boost the discovery of research i4oa.org #I4OA
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Read this, and then think about the further transition from 'sustainable' to 'sustained' necessary for open infrastructures to compete effectively. Do YOU have a role to play? See #SCOSS and #InvestInOpen
Dryad@datadryad31 Aug 2020
Joint post with @ZENODO_ORG : “Sustainable, Open Source Alternatives for Open Research Exist” blog.datadryad.org/2020/08/2…
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Our paper describing the #OpenCitations Data Model (#OCDM) has been accepted at #ISWC2020 in the #InUse track – we use it to describe citation and bibliographic data we have and is adopted by several parties – camera-ready on #arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2005.11981 #OpenScience #SemPub
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#LIBER2020Poster Infrastructures worthy of community support!
SCOSS@scossfunding22 Jun 2020
Poster at LIBER Online 2020 #LIBER2020 this week: Community funding for Open Science Infrastructure SCOSS 2 years In: bit.ly/3fMJLBS. Please retweet if you like it!
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Pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the Workshop on #OpenCitations and #OpenScholarlyMetadata, held in #Bologna on 9-10 September 2020 – the list of invited speakers and the call for contributed talks will be published soon at workshop-oc.github.io/ #WOOC2020 #OpenScience
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Great to have attended #PIDapalooza2020. Slides of my presentation on #InTRePIDs (In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers), coauthored by @essepuntato and @emmedaquino, is now available here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.36329…

In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers – InTRePIDs

This, the first presentation of InTRePIDs, was given at PIDapalooza 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal, on 30th January 2020.  In-Text Reference Pointers (InTRePIDs) are globally unique persistent identifiers...

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New blog post by our Director, @dshotton, explaining what is an #InTRePID, a new persistent identifier created by #OpenCitations for identifying in-text reference pointers in a scholarly work, and how it relates to Open Citation Identifiers (#OCI) opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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New release of #COCI, the #OpenCitations Index of #Crossref DOI-to-DOI #citations, is out: it contains >624M citations between >53M resources – data queryable with #RESTAPI and #SPARQL, dumps in #CSV, #RDF and #Scholix (new format!) available on #Figshare opencitations.wordpress.com/…
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#OpenCitations is among three #OpenScience services that have garnered #SCOSS endorsement as critical OS infrastructure! Find out how you can be part of the global effort to fund and secure OpenCitations: opencitations.wordpress.com/… #I4OC #OpenData #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship
SPARC Europe@SPARC_EU5 Dec 2019
SCOSS launches second funding cycle with recommendation of three vital OS infrastructure services: DOAB and OAPEN, PKP and OpenCitations. Find out how you can help secure their futures. scoss.org
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Insightful comment.
Steve Pettifer@srp2 Oct 2018
There’s a special brexity symmetry to this: suggesting a problem that almost certainly can’t be solved by technology is solved by a technology that almost certainly solves no problem. The whole situation is reflected around the Stupid Axis.
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