Publication
Linked Open Citation Database: Enabling Libraries to Contribute to an Open and Interconnected Citation Graph
Anne Lauscher; Kai Eckert; Lukas Galke; Ansgar Scherp; Syed Tahseen Raza Rizvi; Sheraz Ahmed; Andreas Dengel; Philipp Zumstein; Annette Klein
In: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2018), June 3-6, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, ACM Digital Library, 2018.
Abstract
Citations play a crucial role in the scientific discourse, in informa-
tion retrieval, and in bibliometrics. Many initiatives are currently
promoting the idea of having free and open citation data. Creation
of citation data, however, is not part of the cataloging workflow in
libraries nowadays.
In this paper, we present our project Linked Open Citation Data-
base, in which we design distributed processes and a system infras-
tructure based on linked data technology. The goal is to show that
efficiently cataloging citations in libraries using a semi-automatic
approach is possible. We specifically describe the current state of
the workflow and its implementation. We show that we could sig-
nificantly improve the automatic reference extraction that is crucial
for the subsequent data curation. We further give insights on the
curation and linking process and provide evaluation results that not
only direct the further development of the project, but also allow
us to discuss its overall feasibility.