Research Fellowship on OpenCitations
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Summary:
"We seek a skilled computer scientist / research engineer to work on the OpenCitations Enhancement Project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/the-sloan-foundation-funds-opencitations/).
The OpenCitations Corpus (OCC, http://opencitations.net) is an open repository of scholarly citation data made available under a Creative Commons public domain dedication (CC0), which provides in RDF accurate citation information (bibliographic references) harvested from the scholarly literature. The OpenCitations Enhancement Project wants to make the OCC more useful to the academic community both by significantly expanding the volume of citation data held within the Corpus, and by developing novel data visualizations and query services over the stored data.
The project is a collaboration with the University of Oxford, but the Research Fellow will work with Dr Silvio Peroni in the Digital and Semantic Publishing Laboratory at the University of Bologna, Italy. This is a lively and stimulating environment, and the Research Fellow will be expected to provide a key personal contribution to the project."