Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert,  Anne Lauscher, HDM Stuttgart and Akansha Bhardwaj, DFKI will be presenting the motivation and challenges related to the LOC-DB project at the EXCITE Workshop with a presentation titled ‘LOC-DB: A Linked Open Citation Database provided by Libraries. Motivation and Challenges’ at the EXCITE Workshop 2017 on ‘Challenges in Extracting and Managing References’ to be held at Cologne, Germany on 30.03.2017 – 31.03.2017.