BCite

BCite is a bibliographic reference correction service that allows data curators to reconcile bibligoraphic data with existing citations available in OpenCitations and Crossref, clean bibliographic data, and generate new open citations as RDF data.

The tool includes a web interface for data entry and cleaning, a triplestore Blazegraph, and an API for interacting with OpenCitations and Crossref.

Requirements

• python3
• webpy

Usage

• Clone or download the git repo.
• python3 bin/app.py 8000 The BCite App runs at http://localhost:8000.
• java -server -Xmx4g -jar blazegraph.jar The triplestore runs at port 9999.

Evaluation

To evaluate the precision of the tool, and the number of open citations created, the following data is used: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6462443. Results are outlined in the csv file.