David Shotton (@dshotton) profile picture

David Shotton

@dshotton

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

 Oxford, UK
opencitations.net
Joined June 2009
  • Tweets94
  • Following68
  • Followers457
4Media
Photo by David Shotton (@dshotton)Photo by David Shotton (@dshotton)Photo by David Shotton (@dshotton)Photo by David Shotton (@dshotton)
David Shotton retweeted
I4OC (@i4oc_org) profile picture
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…
University of Chicago Press logo

ALT University of Chicago Press logo

6
1
15
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/….
Image from David Shotton (@dshotton)
You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
1
9
1
20
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/…
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
3
34
7
67
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
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
71
2
62
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 (@ArcadiaFund) profile pictureArcadia 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…
1
2
9
David Shotton retweeted
Redalyc (@Redalyc) profile picture
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
Image from Redalyc (@Redalyc)
5
5
Of relevance to this discussion: opencitations.wordpress.com/… #SocialDilemma and #OpenAcademicAnalytics
The Social Dilemma and open academic analytics

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…

opencitations.wordpress.com
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Where Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata fit within in the whole Open Science scenario may be illustrated by the Open Science Layer Cake:
Image from David Shotton (@dshotton)
11
13
Hear how Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata play a key role in the whole Open Science scenario:
Initiative for Open Abstracts (@open_abstracts) profile pictureInitiative 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
Image from Initiative for Open Abstracts (@open_abstracts)
5
4
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
Image from Initiative for Open Abstracts (@open_abstracts)
9
127
57
173
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 (@datadryad) profile pictureDryad@datadryad31 Aug 2020
Joint post with @ZENODO_ORG : “Sustainable, Open Source Alternatives for Open Research Exist” blog.datadryad.org/2020/08/2…
1
1
6
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
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
20
1
26
#LIBER2020Poster Infrastructures worthy of community support!
SCOSS (@scossfunding) profile pictureSCOSS@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!
Image from SCOSS (@scossfunding)
4
3
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
Image from Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (@workshop_oc)
2
49
2
58
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...

zenodo.org
9
1
15
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/…
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
19
1
21
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/…
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
2
45
56
#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
Image from OpenCitations (@opencitations)
SPARC Europe (@SPARC_EU) profile pictureSPARC 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
Image from SPARC Europe (@SPARC_EU)
1
33
5
62
Insightful comment.
Steve Pettifer (@srp) profile pictureSteve 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.
Load more