NFDI4Culture Metadata API
Metadata of all resources as Linked Open Data
The NFDI4Culture portal offers all content as Linked Open Data over this RESTful API. The API implements the Hydra-Specification of the W3C Hydra Community Group. The semantic description of this API can be retrieved by clients via the Hydra documentation file (JSON). Each metadata record offered via this API can also be retrieved in one of following machine-readable LOD serializations. The API is the basis for the Culture Research Information Graph, which together with the Culture Research Data Graph forms the Culture Knowledge Graph (for more details see this presentation).
Persistent Identifier: <https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E5264>
NextGen Books
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NextGen Books is a book production and book sprint service. The service provides consultation and implementation in the areas of editorial preparation and for publishing production.
Production and publishing services can be provided as consultation and advice, for single titles or series, or for the provision of client publishing infrastructure.
Whether a book production is an open access monograph looking for ‘good practice and high impact’ digital publishing, a co-creation driven open textbooks, or a data science based publication – NextGen Books has open-source solutions.
For agile book projects we provide a complete end-to-end service package, including: organising and running effective book sprints, managing the lifecycle of living books, to the integration of open textbooks in digital teaching and learning scenarios.
We bring together best-of-class open source platforms and expertise to enable efficient productions and maximise impact with high quality metadata and interoperable formats.
- Multi-format publishing – produce your book as multi-format: print-on-demand, PDF, eBook, web, etc., and interoperable formats for efficient reuse.
- Book sprints and co-creation – we have platforms and processes covered for collaborative working – platforms such as online real-time editors to Git, or custom workflows for book sprints or the use of open peer review.
- Data science publications – we use computational publishing platforms such as Jupyter Books to bring together data visualisations, interaction, and linked open data into publication packages.
Good practice digital publishing is at the core of NextGen’s services. The benefits here mean visibility, impact, and high quality compliance for publications – such as Open Access good practice, FAIR ranking, and accessibility W3C compliance. Here is our sample checklist list of ‘digital good practice’:
- Identifiers: PIDs: Publication level; Digital object in a publication; Other entities.
- Access: Open access (OA): Publication level; OA: Linked Research Data; OA: Metadata; Institutional deposit; machine readable PDF metadata; Accessibility.
- Open Science: Software citation; Expanded roles and attribution.
- Portability: Machine readable; Interoperable formats; Open standards; Linked open data (LOD), e.g. from Wikibase and Wikidata.
- Cataloguing: Readme; Landing page etc.
Example publications:
- LIBER Citizen Science Guide - Part 1. Skills; Part 2. Infrastructures
- FORCE11 - FSCI Summer School ‘Publishing from Collections’
- FOSTER Open Science Training Handbook
Project site: https://projects.tib.eu/nextgen-books/
Platforms, services and standards used: Fidus Writer; Vivliostyle; Jupyter Notebooks; Jupyter Books; GitLab; GitHub; Wikidata; Wikibase; Thoth; RADAR4Culture; Open Book Collective; DOAB; Datacite; Zenodo; W3C CSS Paged Media; Wikibase4Research, and; Publication Manifest W3C.