The Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing has chosen TSO, part of the Williams Lea group, and their OpenUp platform to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data.
Building on and supporting complementary platforms and projects such as ChemSpider, OpenPhacts and Prospect, the RSC will open up its bibliographic data from thousands of journal articles as Linked Data, accessible under an open metadata licence.
The project will initially include 20,000 articles which is approximately 40 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including bibliographic metadata from three RSC journals - Chemical Communications, MedChemComm and Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC). In the first release the datasets will include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc).
To support the RSC's strategy to unlock the potential from data, a dedicated RSC Linked Data portal, will encourage developers and consumers to query and pull the RDF for re-use via SPARQL queries or a Linked Data API. Consumers and Developers will be able to search and query the bibliographic data alongside other RSC datasets using TSO's Flint SPARQL query editor. The Linked Data can be mashed up with other open data sources to create innovative applications and visualisations extending its value for the scientific community.
TSO will set up and host the data, held as RDF on its OpenUp Linked Data platform. The leading in-house team will use its expertise in Linked Data and semantic technologies to provide an end-to-end solution for the RSC including data modelling, URI scheme and reporting.
The RSC joins another prominent scientific publisher, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), in selecting the OpenUp RDF hosting service, to disseminate scientific Linked Data. The tried-and-tested platform has already been relied upon for the dissemination of Linked Data for some of the most important government institutions such as the National Archives - their UK legislation, data published in the Gazettes - and the Office for National Statistics.
