Metadata extraction

We host research manuscripts on currently six (6) partner repositories, namely Open Science Framework (OSF), Zenodo, ScienceOpen, PubPub, Qeios, Figshare. Here is how we extract the data:

Extract from OSF

AfricArXiv submissions on OSF: osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

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Extract from Zenodo

AfricArXiv submissions on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/

This workflow extracts metadata from our AfricArXiv.org Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/ for the joint project with Masakhane.io called Decolonise Science: https://www.masakhane.io/ongoing-projects/masakhane-mt-decolonise-science.

Workflow

• download the decolsci_zenodo-stats.sh shell script to a linux machine or virtual environment
• run the script: bash zenodo-community-stats.sh
• upload the generated .csv file to the GitHub repository

Links of interest

• for JSON responses to parse: https://developers.zenodo.org/#representation
• to understand the metadata fields: https://help.zenodo.org/guides/search
• original bash script: https://gist.github.com/slint/eb4bcb8bc572a37b9650b8c55e759fc9
• Colab entry https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xOJooXM4lBljqFUWAcToGkZKwZwjL4YH#scrollTo=k6xYrbST31lR

Extract from ScienceOpen

AfricArXiv submissions on ScienceOpen: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/africarxiv

• Read blog.scienceopen.com/2017/08/new-feature-export-citation-lists-scienceopen/