OpenCitations Meta

Quick start

Install:

pip install oc_meta

Run the main processing pipeline:

python -m oc_meta.run.meta_process -c meta_config.yaml

Input format

Meta expects CSV files with these columns:

Column	Description
id	Space-separated identifiers (doi:10.1162/qss_a_00292 pmid:38034492)
title	Title of the work
author	Semicolon-separated names with optional identifiers (Peroni, Silvio [orcid:0000-0003-0530-4305]; Shotton, David)
pub_date	ISO 8601 date (2024-01-22, 2024-01, or 2024)
venue	Container title with optional identifier (Quantitative Science Studies [issn:2641-3337])
volume	Volume number
issue	Issue number
page	Page range (50-75)
type	Resource type (journal article, book chapter, proceedings article, etc.)
publisher	Publisher name with optional identifier (MIT Press [crossref:281])
editor	Same format as author

See the CSV format reference for the complete specification.

Documentation

• Configuration — YAML config file setup

• Preprocessing — Filter and prepare input data

• Processing — Run the main pipeline

• Verification — Validate output

• Editing entities — Modify existing RDF

• Merge — Detect and merge duplicates

• Info dir — Filesystem counter management

• Benchmark — Performance measurement

• Testing — Test infrastructure and fixtures