Scholarly metadata from R
Metadata! Metadata is very cool. It’s super hot right now - everybody is talking about it. Okay, maybe not everyone, but it’s an important part of archiving scholarly work. We are working on a repo on GitHub rmetadata to be a one stop shop for querying metadata from around the web. Various repos on GitHub we have started - rpmc, rdatacite, rdryad, rpensoft, rhindawi - will at least in part be folded into rmetadata. As a start we are writing functions to hit any metadata services that use the OAI-PMH: “Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting” framework. OAI-PMH has six methods (or verbs as they are called) for data harvesting that are the same across different metadata providers: ...