Future Citations

Future Citation Data Hack days is for developers and experts who are interested in the area of Citation Data, areas of interest include:

• Business intelligence
• Research management
• Big Data
• Novel use cases
• Future directions
• Open data
• Linked Data / RDF / Ontologies
• Using Hadoop
• Amazon Web Services / Cloud services
• Working with APIs, both open and commercial

It was a useful couple of days in which we explored:

• the nature of citations
• comparison across datasets to highlight anomalies - for example, CrossRef's content is skewed 2010 onwards because it depends on publishers contributions and from then on publishers do contribute, and make sure that all this new material references their own publications correctly; however, this work skews the number of references per year, the years 2010 & 2011 being noticeably higher than previous years.
• investigated erroneous citations - for example, the correct reference "Kimura,M. (1980) A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. J. Mol. Evol., 16, 111–120" has a variant form with model replacing method that persists. In Google Scholar method has 11,614 citations, model has 1. In MS Academic Research method has 5,725 citations, model has 165.
• talked with people from other disciplines and familiar with merging the citations for documents with citations for data; DOIs and DataCite (http://www.datacite.org/) are the preferred solution for unique identifiers.
• good networking opportunities
• have potential access to more biodiversity citation references.
• discussed relevant toolsets being developed elsewhere, ie at least two people are working on PDF metadata extraction.
• linked up with Paul Stokes, JISC programme manager on citations. He is starting to look at bringing linked open data into the programme

Dauvit King attended. More extensive notes in attached file, Future_Citations_notes.txt.