Publications are Research Data too!
Abstract
Publications are considered the scientific legacy of researchers. A greta step ahead was made in the 17th century by the invention and innovation of letter based communications of findings and books as basis of final publication. The great era of science publications as articles was born and has evolved since then. The digital revolution was needed to start a new evolutionary step connected to the lucrative publisher researcher connection the Open Access started rising and is picking up peed.
I do not really consider the creation of PDF articles an innovation of evolution, besides the digital representation this is still the same like the paper publications from the very early days. Nevertheless, besides the natural sciences there evolved the field of digital humanities from the textual based sciences and created methods and technologies by far more advanced then some of the scientific methods used in the earth and space sciences. The digital humanities actually implemented from the hart of their disciplines that the scientific knowledge that is usually captured in text is the legacy of scientific findings and needs to be accessible by modern technology. I will present how the natural sciences could learn from the emerging field of digital humanities, by the example how the Department for International Law of the University Kiel tested the possibilities of Text Encoding by TEI with the advantages of interconnected knowledge across articles retrievable by machines and applicable to automated reasoning. The STM disciplines do publish over 1,9 Mio articles per year all this knowledge needs to become interconnected and scientists need to have recommending machines at hand to focus their precious time on the articles that matter instead of keeping reading abstracts of articles they are finally not interested in.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMIN41C..39F
- Keywords:
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- 1912 Data management;
- preservation;
- rescue;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1946 Metadata;
- INFORMATICSDE: 6699 General or miscellaneous;
- PUBLIC ISSUES