“RO-Crate is a community effort to establish a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata. It is based on schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, and aims to make best-practice in formal metadata description accessible and practical for use in a wider variety of situations, from an individual researcher working with a folder of data, to large data-intensive computational research environments….”
Category Archives: oa.metadata
Call for Proposals – Special Issue: Metadata as Knowledge | KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies
“This special issue of KULA takes up the critical relationship between metadata and knowledge: how metadata acts as knowledge in its descriptive role; metadata as knowledge abstracted and transformed from its original purpose; and the role of open knowledge projects to facilitate this transformation….”
Thoth
“Thoth (/?o??, to?t/, Greek ??? < Coptic ????? < Egyptian ??wtj) is an Open Dissemination System for Open Access books. Written purely in rust, it consists of:
A GraphQL API, implementing a data model specifically designed for OA books
An actions API to export metadata in formats like ONIX, MARC, etc.
A WebAssembly GUI to manage metadata records….”
Join #1Lib1Ref 2021: Celebrating the humans and citations at the heart of Wikipedia – Diff
“The annual “One Librarian, One Reference” (#1Lib1Ref) initiative is an opportunity for communities around the world to celebrate the unique and invaluable overlap of libraries and Wikipedia. This year, communities in Africa, Western Europe, North America, Central and Eastern Europe, and many other parts of the world are going to be celebrating. You can help us do that too by adding a single (or several) missing citations to Wikipedia articles.
One of the best birthday gifts for Wikipedia is your time helping to improve it….”
Arabic manuscripts at World Digital Library: a few notes – Damascus Anecdotes
“Recently, I discovered, probably later than many others, that the World Digital Library (WDL) is hosting 57 Arabic-script manuscripts, many of whose originals are kept at the Egyptian National Library (EGL). This post is kind of a review of their online presentation….
What is dearly missing from these entries, however, is the manuscript reference number. Why is it not given in the description in addition to the images? As described above, you can work around this lack in some cases. But if you happen to be interested in the history of a work that is only available within a larger manuscript, the WDL digital images might not be helpful at all, simply because you cannot reference them….”
Q&A about Elsevier’s decision to open its citations – Leiden Madtrics
Plan S practical advice | Plan S
“cOAlition S is committed to delivering content that informs and explains in a concrete manner the research and publishing community towards the aim of accelerating full and immediate open access. The following page provides practical advice and additional details about the Plan S principles, implementation and technical guidance in order to help researchers, institutions, publishers and others understand better the Plan S and its requirements. Further explanations will be added as necessary.
Requirements for Open Access Repositories…”
Introducing the Open Library Explorer
“At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo), Open Library unveiled the beta for what it’s calling the Library Explorer: an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. If the tagline doesn’t grab your attention, wait until you see it in action….”
Elsevier signs Declaration on Research Assessment
Elsevier signs Declaration on Research Assessment; implementation steps will include making reference lists of all articles openly available via Crossref
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To support these goals, Elsevier has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The signing took place today on the anniversary of the declaration.
Prof Stephen Curry, Chair of DORA, said:
I am very pleased that Elsevier has committed itself to DORA and agreed to open up its citation data. To me, this is a powerful indicator of the rising importance worldwide of responsible research assessment. I very much look forward to seeing the positive impact of this decision both within Elsevier and the community that they serve.
Elsevier signs Declaration on Research Assessment
Elsevier signs Declaration on Research Assessment; implementation steps will include making reference lists of all articles openly available via Crossref
[…]
To support these goals, Elsevier has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The signing took place today on the anniversary of the declaration.
Prof Stephen Curry, Chair of DORA, said:
I am very pleased that Elsevier has committed itself to DORA and agreed to open up its citation data. To me, this is a powerful indicator of the rising importance worldwide of responsible research assessment. I very much look forward to seeing the positive impact of this decision both within Elsevier and the community that they serve.