Recommend an Open-Access Organization (+ person of contact)

[mekarpeles]

Can you recommend an organization which would mutually benefit from joining our collaboration?

I'm happily to do the research, contact appropriate persons, and help facilitate relevant introductions to help us work more effectively together.

Alternatively, if there's a group you'd like to invite to join the conversation, please let us know.

To start w/ I'm reaching out to Patrick O. Brown of PLoS.

[davidar]

@jbenet and I have discussed reaching out to arXiv at some point

@CrossRef might also be interesting to have on board, but I suspect there may be some political issues we'd have to deal with

[mekarpeles]

Cool. I emailed Josh Bongard, one of my undergrad advisers who studied at cornell if he can help w/ an introduction to arxiv.

[difranco]

Likewise I did some work with the right kind of people on a citation tracking tool at crossref aimed in part at advocating for more open access, so I can start that discussion. What do you think that discussion would involve, generally?

[pietsch]

I invited Antonin Delpeuch of http://dissem.in/. He is interested and suggests we join efforts with Mike Taylor's OneRepo.

Antonin also gave me a very promising idea for screen-scraping: Use Zotero translators to extract metadata from landing pages!

[mekarpeles]

@pietsch That's great! https://dissem.in is a great tool -- welcome @wetneb!

@pietsch + @wetneb I sent an to Sebastian Hammer of indexdata.com ~4 days ago and he intro'd me to Mike Taylor (I haven't heard back yet). I'll followup right now -- I'd love to pursue a collaboration w/ indexdata + OneRepo)

[davidar]

Likewise I did some work with the right kind of people on a citation tracking tool at crossref aimed in part at advocating for more open access, so I can start that discussion. What do you think that discussion would involve, generally?

@difranco Awesome. I suppose what I'd be particularly interested in is how much metadata CrossRef would be able and/or willing to open up to the public in bulk. CrossRef Labs also has some interesting projects on extracting metadata from existing publications, which could be useful.

Antonin also gave me a very promising idea for screen-scraping: Use Zotero translators to extract metadata from landing pages!

@pietsch I think I had suggested that too ;)

[pietsch]

@davidar Oops. I do forget things. Sorry!

[cleegiles]

Some of you might find this list of tools useful:

http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/about/scholarly-information-extraction

On 11/23/15 4:24 AM, Michael E. Karpeles wrote:

@pietsch That's great! https://dissem.in is a great tool -- welcome @wetneb!

@pietsch + @wetneb I sent an to Sebastian Hammer of indexdata.com ~4 days ago and he intro'd me to Mike Taylor (I haven't heard back yet). I'll followup right now -- I'd love to pursue a collaboration w/ indexdata + OneRepo)

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[mekarpeles]

Thanks @cleegiles, this is interesting. I'm going to create an (awesome-style) document where we can or keep track of tools like these.

There's a researcher Thomas Crouzier (this is his ResearchGate)who I am scheduled to speak with who has a pretty amazing, organized list of several hundred tools for academic researchers -- http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers.

Maybe it's worth porting here so we can collaborate on it together

[wetneb]

Hi all! The project looks great! @pietsch and @davidar, I would be happy to work on this idea.

[nthmost]

I've interacted with the lead CrossRef engineer, Karl Ward, on occasion,
mostly for feedback while I was building the CrossRef query tool contained
in metapub.

The engineering side of CrossRef is eager to make the world a better
place. Someone mentioned that interfacing w/ CrossRef may come with
political complication, and that may still be true, so I do think careful
handling is warranted.

I can email Karl and see what he thinks might be an appropriate level of
involvement for CrossRef.

--Naomi

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Antonin [email protected] wrote:

Hi all! The project looks great! @pietsch https://github.com/pietsch
and @davidar https://github.com/davidar, I would be happy to work on
this idea.

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[davidar]

Thanks @nthmost :)

[davidar]

I almost forgot about @okfn ;)

[JosephMcArthur]

I'd be interested in this as part of the Open Access Button

[jbenet]

• @rgrp of @okfn
• @mitar of @peerlibrary

[jbenet]

• @dwhly of @hypothesis -- they just launched a new open annotation collaboration and lots of publishers are signed up. see https://hypothes.is/annotating-all-knowledge -- should get someone from each of those orgs.

[mitar]

PeerLibrary project shares quite some ideas from what I read here. But it is currently in zombie mode for the lack of funding.

[davidar]

@dginev of the CorTeX project