In the initial phases of the project aimed at freeing all climate change research and having it published as open access. Help is needed in creating a knowledgebase via listing important information and in the extraction of information from publication databases.
The proposed workflow: a. list initially held as .MD files, linked below, b. Communications to take place in the GitHub issues area.
Gitter chat https://gitter.im/open-climate/community and use the hashtags on Twitter #openclimate and #eLifeSprint
- List climate change related fields.
- Types of publication: papers, PhDs, grey literature, reports, etc.
- What are the sources for research publications?: Closed commercial publishing; Publishers, journals, companies, think tanks, governments; Preprint; Collections; Repositories.
- Climate change related collections: publisher collections, university repositories, etc.
- Open access vs. closed research publishing statistics.
- List initiatives for making climate change research OA. Domain specific, general, for the public and demographics, types, etc.
- Literature survey of publications on the topic of 'climate change and open access publishing'.
- scanned handwriting (ships' logs)
- scanned typewriting (e.g. camera-ready)
- scanned typeset (e.g. tables of temperatures)
- born-digital word/latex (e.g. theses)
- PDFs in journals
- PDFs in reports
- HTML from websites
- XML
TBC
- add Wikidata IDs to dictionaries
- add Wikidata entries for missing terms
- find / add Wikidata Ids to papers
TBC