Dazhi (David) Jiao won this year's OCLC Research Software Contest with a program called CAT OAI that harvests book citations from articles in OAI-compliant repositories and lists them when a user clicks on a book from a searchable OPAC. By default it shows only the top-ranked five citations, when rank is a function of the similarity of the OAI record to the OPAC record, but the full list of citations is just a click away. The software can apparently make use of any OPAC and any OAI-compliant repositories, though the demo uses only a subset of the OCLC WorldCat and arXiv. It can apparently track citations to any resources appearing in an OPAC, including journals, but my sample searches on the demo returned only books and conference proceedings. For more details, see the OCLC press release, the demo version of CAT OAI, or the software "about" page. CAT OAI is open-source but the code is not yet online.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/23/2005 11:59:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
