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Linked Open Citation Database (LOC-DB) Lightning Talk @ #SWIB17

Kai Eckert

Stuttgart Media University

Linked Open Citation Database

Goal

• Creation of full list of references, curated, with links,

as part of the cataloging process in libraries.

• Monographs, Proceedings articles, Journal articles.

Question

• Is this actually feasible? What would it cost?

Architecture and Workflow

Editor’s front end OCR LOC-DB Instance 1

Linked Open Data

LOC-DB Instance 2 LOC-DB Instance N PDF Web Print

1 2 3 4 5

• 1. Scan / Harvest | 2. OCR / Extract | 3. Enrich / Link | 4. Check / Curate | 5. Store / Publish

Data Model

• Reuse of the Open Citations Data Model.
• Active collaboration to extend and maintain the data model together.
• http://opencitations.net/
• Initiative for Open Citations
• https://i4oc.org/

Of course we happily take all data that already exists! Publishers: please make our project (almost) obsolete!

LOC-DB Redaktionssystem

More information:

https://locdb.bib.uni-mannheim.de https://github.com/locdb/ http://wisslab.org