Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in organizing and converting content into digital formats, has announced the start of the second phase of the Scopus Cited References Expansion Program. To date, DCL has converted and enriched 3.7 million Elsevier, American Physical Society (APS) and Springer articles with more than 80 million cited references. The second phase of the project is focused on converting millions of records from more of the world's top peer-reviewed journal publishers such as the Institute of Physics (IOP) and Wiley-Blackwell.
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed research literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, delivers a comprehensive overview of global scientific output.
DCL worked with Elsevier to plan the normalisation of the structured and unstructured data received from the publishers. DCL was able to tailor a comprehensive, and fully automated, process to convert and enrich XML records coming from various archives and in various formats to match Elsevier's XML schema. Additional workflows were created to match, verify and overlay related rich content from other citation databases. This unique reference matching process improves the quality of the final XML data while still supporting the Elsevier schema and business rules validation. The DCL Scopus Cited Reference Expansion Program conversion process runs 24/7 across 30 processing servers to deliver high-quality output in a quick, efficient manner.
