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Crossref Labs loves to be the last to jump on an internet trend, so what better than than to combine the Doge meme with altmetrics?
Note: The API calls below have been superceeded with the development of the Event Data project. See the latest API documentation for equivalent functionality
Want to know how many times a Crossref DOI is cited by the Wikipedia?
So while doing some background reading today I realized that legal citations already widely support a form of “citation typing” in the form of “Introductory Signals“. The 10 introductory signals break down as follows…
In support of an argument:
   1) [no signal]. (NB that, apparently, this is increasingly deprecated.)
   2) accord;
   3) see;
   4) see also;
   5) cf.;
For Comparisons:
   6) compare … with …;
For contradiction:
   7) but see;
This D-Lib paper by Altman and King looks interesting: “A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data”. (And thanks to Herbert Van de Sompel for drawing attention to the paper.) Gist of it (Sect. 3) is
_“We propose that citations to numerical data include, at a minimum, six required components. The first three components are traditional, directly paralleling print documents. … Thus, we add three components using modern technology, each of which is designed to persist even when the technology changes: a unique global identifier, a universal numeric fingerprint, and a bridge service. They are also designed to take advantage of the digital form of quantitative data.
An example of a complete citation, using this minimal version of the proposed standards, is as follows:
**Micah Altman; Karin MacDonald; Michael P. McDonald, 2005, “Computer Use in Redistricting”,
hdl:1902.1/AMXGCNKCLU UNF:3:J0PkMygLPfIyT1E/8xO/EA==
http://id.thedata.org/hdl%3A1902.1%2FAMXGCNKCLU
“_
