Bibliographic Activity in Social Sciences in the Era of Neural Networks and API Interfaces

Abstract

Bibliographic Activity in Social Sciences in the Era of Neural Networks and API Interfaces by Vadim K. Stepanov (Moscow, Russia)

The total digitalization of information transfer processes and the parallel development of several standards and technologies at once have formed a new paradigm of bibliographic and, in general, information services for the scientific sphere. The foundation of the transformation was the adoption of international standards, DOI and ORCID. The method of providing scientific papers has also been unified: in most global scientific journals, when the author uploads a manuscript, along with the full text, all accompanying metadata are entered, launching the entire further cycle of bibliographic information.

When a scientific paper is published, information about it is automatically transferred to Crossref (the global DOI registration agency), which has become a giant global repository of bibliographic information continuously received from publishers. Crossref is an open resource, information from which can be obtained by anyone without restrictions. API technology is used to borrow data from the Internet, which has become the basis for the bibliographic data exchange system: due to API, bibliographic information is continuously transferred from resource to resource in previously unimaginable gigantic volumes in the background without any human intervention.

The opportunities that have opened up have been taken advantage of by companies that can be described as...