Free Network and Geo Analysis Tools

BCite is a bibliographic reference correction service that allows data curators to reconcile bibliographic data with existing citations available in OpenCitations and Crossref, clean bibliographic data, and generate new open citations as RDF data.

The tool includes a web interface for data entry and cleaning, a triplestore Blazegraph, and an API for interacting with OpenCitations and Crossref.

You’ve scraped citations from a batch of PDFs or websites and want to:

Clean them

Match them to known publications in Crossref

Convert them into open, interoperable formats

Store/query them as part of a research database

BCite can automate this cleaning and standardization.

📦 RDF = Structured Data Using Triples:

Each triple follows this format:

Subject — Predicate — Object

Example (for a citation):

<Paper_A> — <cites> — <Paper_B>

Which could be translated into RDF (Turtle syntax):

https://doi.org/10.1234/articleA cito:cites https://doi.org/10.5678/articleB .

Here:

cito:cites is from the Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO)

Each part of the triple is a URI, making the data interoperable and linkable across systems