Linking Research Outputs Through Citation

Notification Services

StOReLink

Journal Articles Past & Present:“The Literature”

Research ‘Literature’ of the Future?

• An aggregation of resources?– Background & Research material– Report, Blog, Journal Article– Data resources– Experiment resources– Process information– Project outputs (dissemination, theses, reports)– Works derived from this aggregation (or members of it)

• How do we collate and enable navigation around this new landscape?

• This involves tackling the ‘citation problem’

Backward Citations

• Traditional Citations – refer backwards between formal written publications

• If you try hard enough, you can trace back the prior influences on papers back to the 17th Century.

• Usually does not include citation of data or ‘other’ research material.

Adding Forward Citations

• Include Forward Citations – refer forwards to derived datasets and formal written publications

• Include data into the network of citations.

Trackback

Familiar Applications

Using Trackback for Notification

• Trackback is a pure peer-to-peer approach – Does not rely on third party services.

• Trackbacks can be received without the source or target repository knowing of each other’s existence in advance

• Existing well-known and well-defined simple protocols for article cross-referencing used in the Blogging community.

• A number of Trackback specifications exist:

• Trackback is a simple “framework for peer-to-peer communication” • supported by blogging tools such as MoveableType• It has a relatively simple metadata transmission uses HTTP POST. • Problems with Spamming are well-known and mitigation can be

done.

Reverse Trackback

• The normal trackback sends metadata from the sender to the receiver.

• Can also send metadata from the receiver to the sender – reverse trackback.

• Embed metadata in the first requested page with Trackback URL.

• This metadata can be used to enhance or correct the citation data.

• Could mean that user data entry is at a minimum