Daniel Mietchen@EvoMRI

Peter Kraker@PeterKraker

Changing The Way We Discover Research

Rich Savage, CC BY 2.0

Exercise

Get together in groups of 2 to 3

Discuss the following questions:

How do you get an overview of a unknown research field? What are the problems and challenges that you are facing?

Record problems and challenges here: https://is.gd/force2017

A Personal Story

2009: EU-NoE STELLAR: Work Package „Science 2.0“

Objective: Connect researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning with digital tools and platforms

Task: Exchange publication metadata between institutions in a Web 2.0 way

Publication Feeds (2009)

RSS feed with basic metadata

Extended with RDF triples

Based upon the SWRC ontology

BuRST (2005)

RSS feed with basic metadata

Extended with RDF triples

Based upon the SWRC ontology

Publication Feeds (2009)

RSS feed with basic metadata

Extended with RDF triples

Based upon the SWRC ontology

BuRST (2005)

RSS feed with basic metadata

Extended with RDF triples

Based upon the SWRC ontology

Uncitedness (publications):12% - 82% (Larivière & Gingras 2009)

Uncitedness (data): 85% (Peters et al. 2016)

Transfer to practice (medicine):14%, taking 17 years (Balas 1998)

Dark Knowledge (Jonathan Jeschke)

Academic literature search tools (ALST) only serve a third or less

I find it easy to identify relevant publications using ALST

I find it easy to formulate a query when searching in an unknown research topic/field

I find it hard to get an overview of academic literature on a research topic using ALST

Academic literature search takes too much time

28.6

%

31.4

%

33.3

%

34.4

%

n=107

Agreement

Agreement

Disagreement

Disagreement

Open Knowledge Maps

A non-profit organization

dedicated to dramaticallyimproving the visibility of scientific knowledge

for science and society alike

Overview of heart diseases

https://openknowledgemaps.org

Advantages

Open science, all the way

Open Source https://github.com/OpenKnowledgeMaps

Open Content Open Data (planned)

Working in the open

Open roadmap

Open proposals

Participatory development

The first 16months

Featured on the front pages of reddit & HackerNews

180,000+ visits on the site, 40,000+ mapscreated, 350+ participants in workshops

Winner of the Open Minds Award

Collaborative discovery

https://vimeo.com/188647919

Daniel Mietchen@EvoMRI

Peter Kraker@PeterKraker

Thank you for your attention!

Rich Savage, CC BY 2.0