Collaborating on open dataset of all academic publications
Channel: Aaron Schumacher
Date: 2014-07-17

csv,conf 2014 http://csvconf.com/

Collaborating on open dataset of all academic publications

Mitar Milutinovic https://twitter.com/mitar_m

Mitar Milutinovic is a PhD student at UC Berkeley researching ways to improve how researchers collaborate. Currently working on PeerLibrary, a platform for collaborative reading of academic publications.

In PeerLibrary we are recognizing a need for an open dataset of all academic publications. Issues preventing building such dataset are multiple: multiple existing sources, many proprietary, conflicting entries, and legal issues with some parts of data (eg. full text). In addition, collaborative curation of this data is not yet possible. I would like to present what we are doing on this topic, but mostly learn from and about others.

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