Documenting the research process. Opportunities and challenges for Bibliometrics and IR
Creators: name: Scharnhorst, Andrea
name: Daga, Enrico
name: Daquino, Marilena
name: Fournier-S'niehotta, Raphaël
name: Guillotel-Nothmann, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: knowledge organisation
sts
ontology engineering
ecosystem

description: From the earlier days of measuring the sciences (here meant as all academia) there has been a vision of being able to document the whole of the research cycle including its boundary conditions (such as staff, instruments, funding, expenditures, etc.), the research process itself and its tangible output. Different motives are behind such a vision, e.g., understanding the creative process of knowledge production, managing the performance of a mostly public funded science system, and new possibilities for information services. In particular, the black box of the research process itself has intrigued many and both the emergence of WWW and the Open Science movement have enabled and motivated to further open up this black box. <br> <br> Research data as one cornerstone of the research process and its management has been a particular key in this development. The development of standardized documentation of all elements of the research process is a necessary ingredient, but there is also a danger of getting entrapped in a rather atomized view of the research process. Next to data and software (currently in the focus of open access) other important parts are requirements, methods, and epistemic frameworks. For all of them holds that documentation - if at all formalized - often only captures a part of the ‘research culture’ and the tacit knowledge embedded in the practices.<br> <br> This talk reports about knowledge management experiences in an EC funded project Polifonia (Research and Innovation Action funding scheme). Polifonia is a challenging project. It aspires to develop a methodological framework for musical heritage information which encompasses sources from text, sound, scores, settings (buildings), and experiences. It is organized around 10 Pilots which cover various actions such as preserving, studying, managing and interacting with musical heritage. Its advantage is that it uses semantic web technologies (ontologies and resulting knowledge graphs) as lingua franca binding the different Pilots together. More specifically, on top of the very popular use of git-hub repositories in research projects, Polifonia adds an additional organization structure (the Polifonia Ecosystem) to document not only relevant semantic artifacts but also their mutual dependency, developing annotations for both objects and actions and their specific role in a given scientific endeavor.<br> <br> Using this case, this talk reflects about the opportunities and challenges in formalizing best practices to execute innovative research processes; and which impact such developments have on future information retrieval practices. <br> <br> References:<br> Smiraglia, R., A. Scharnhorst (Eds.) (2021) Linking Knowledge. Linked Open Data for Knowledge Organization and Visualization. Baden-Baden, Ergon-Nomos, doi: 10.5771/9783956506611 (zenodo editor version OA: https://zenodo.org/record/6513663#.YqMf8y8RphA)<br> <br> Guillotel-Nothmann, Christophe, Bottini, Thomas, Carriero, Valentina, Carvalho, Jason, Cathé, Philippe, Ciroku, Fiorela, Daga, Enrico, Daquino, Marilena, Davy-Rigaux, Achille, Gurrieri, Marco, Van Kemenade, Philo, Marzi, Eleanora, Presutti, Valentina, &amp; Scharnhorst, Andrea. (2021). D1.1 Roadmap and pilot requirements 1st version (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7124253 <br> <br> Daga, Enrico, Meroño Peñuela, Albert, Daquino, Marilena, Ciroku, Fiorela, Musumeci, Elena, Gurrieri, Marco, Scharnhorst, Andrea, Admiraal, Femmy, &amp; Fournier-S'niehotta, Raphaël. (2021). D1.3: Pilots development – collaborative methodology and tools (V1.0) (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7124135 <br> <br> Stian Soiland-Reyes, Peter Sefton, Mercè Crosas, Leyla Jael Castro, Frederik Coppens, José M. Fernández, Daniel Garijo, Björn Grüning, Marco La Rosa, Simone Leo, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Marc Portier, Ana Trisovic, RO-Crate Community, Paul Groth, &amp; Carole Goble. (2022). Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate. Data Science, (pre-press). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5833456<br> <br> Jaradeh, M. Y., Oelen, A., Prinz, M., Stocker, M., &amp; Auer, S. (2022). Open Research Knowledge Graph:A System Walkthrough. Pre-print arxiv, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_31