Conference Paper: “Requirements Analysis for an Open Research Knowledge Graph” (Preprint)

The paper linked to below (preprint) has been accepted for publication by the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2020.

Title

Requirements Analysis for an Open Research Knowledge Graph

Authors

Arthur Brack
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

Anett Hoppe
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

Markus Stocker
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

Sören Auer
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany
L3S Research Center, Leibniz University,

Ralph Ewerth
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany
L3S Research Center, Leibniz University,

Source

via arXiv
arXiv:2005.10334 [cs.DL]

Abstract

Current science communication has a number of drawbacks and bottlenecks which have been subject of discussion lately: Among others, the rising number of published articles makes it nearly impossible to get an overview of the state of the art in a certain field, or reproducibility is hampered by fixed-length, document-based publications which normally cannot cover all details of a research work. Recently, several initiatives have proposed knowledge graphs (KGs) for organising scientific information as a solution to many of the current issues. The focus of these proposals is, however, usually restricted to very specific use cases. In this paper, we aim to transcend this limited perspective by presenting a comprehensive analysis of requirements for an Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) by (a) collecting daily core tasks of a scientist, (b) establishing their consequential requirements for a KG-based system, (c) identifying overlaps and specificities, and their coverage in current solutions. As a result, we map necessary and desirable requirements for successful KG-based science communication, derive implications and outline possible solutions.

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