Integration of Simile Timeplot into ScientificCommons

Simile Timeplot and Simile Timeline from MIT SIMILE project Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments are handy libraries to visualize time depending data.
ScientificCommons.org gathers now for more than 2 years data from several hundred repositories worldwide. That means that there is plenty of data for time series visualization. I just started to add graphs for the publication activity of each repository on the repository summary page. Here are some example pages:

• http://en.scientificcommons.org/repository/e-lis
• http://en.scientificcommons.org/repository/qut__eprints_archive

Reference

• http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/

WWW Conference interesting reads!

All accepted papers from the 16th International World Wide Web Conference are now available from the conference homepage. Here is a list of papers I found interesting.

• Why We Search: Visualizing and Predicting User Behavior
• Exploring in the Weblog Space by Detecting Informative and Affective Articles
• Analysis of Topological Characteristics of Huge Online Social Networking Services
• The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (position paper)
• Using Google Distance to Weight Approximate Ontology Matches
• Optimizing Web Search Using Social Annotations
• The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging
• GeoTracker: Geospatial and Temporal RSS Navigation
• Open User Profiles for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?
• Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts - Step Two: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds
• Introduction and Evaluation of Martlet, a Scientific Workflow Language for Abstracted Parallelisation

ScientificCommons starts citation analysis

As we have now gathered more than 500.000 full text documents, we started to extract the citations from the full text documents. Thomas did a great job getting the citation extractor working, which means we could start the link creation. We setup the citation linking working in both ways. This means we link incoming publication (other publication that cite this publication) and outgoing ones (publication cited within the selected publication) and of course the authors are linked too. Currently we display only 10 in or outhoing citations per publications to keep the publication page clearly arranged. It will take some time to generate all links on the slow hardware we've got, but we looking forward to it. Below you find some examples, which already have this new feature added:

Single direction:
http://en.scientificcommons.org/9233286
http://en.scientificcommons.org/17366430
http://en.scientificcommons.org/9196681

Both directions:
http://en.scientificcommons.org/1574177
http://en.scientificcommons.org/1616905
http://en.scientificcommons.org/1994192

Zotero and ScientificCommons.org

The zotero Firefox extension is an easy-to-use reference manager built into your browser to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Thanks to Sean Takats from zotero, all publication metadata from ScientificCommons.org can be easily imported to your zotero database now - with just one click your Firefox address bar icon. We are very happy to be included into this very helpful tool.

This extension enables you to capture citation information from web pages like amazon or ScientificCommons.org. It also automatically links to full text documents. Additionally it can store PDFs, images, links, and whole web pages just as you cite the resource. It's ease to make extra notes. Moreover you can search through everything just as you type. It runs smoothly in your browser and it integrates into Microsoft Word and other word processors and it does have a long list of shared collections, which is been updated online and which now includes ScientificCommons.org.

Just have a look at this introductory video:

Open Access-Repositories Worldwide

After we have finnished our first round of investigation for open access repositories and after adding them to scientificcommons.org I ran a short analysis to look where are all these repositories are located. The chart above shows the top ten countries in terms of open access repositories. Thats what we fairly expected, but I was a bit surprised by Brazil, which is on forth place just behind Germany. I then recalled that I read some articles in Lawrence Lessig's Blog about creative commons activities in brazil. So it seems that brazil is very active with the creative and open access community. That seems a logical step for a emerging nation, because alternative licences and distribution methods might accelerate the attention to their research outcome.