Lightning Talk at SWIB 2017

1. Linked Open Citation Database (LOC-DB)
Lightning Talk @ #SWIB17
Kai Eckert
Stuttgart Media University

2. 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?

3. Architecture and Workflow
Editor’s front end
OCR
LOC-DB
Instance 1
Linked Open Data
LOC-DB
Instance 2
LOC-DB
Instance N
PDF WebPrint
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1. Scan / Harvest | 2. OCR / Extract | 3. Enrich / Link | 4. Check / Curate | 5. Store / Publish

4. 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!

5. LOC-DB Redaktionssystem

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