The Dutch universities have placed 200.000 Open Access publications online on the web. University Libraries worked together within the SURFshare program and created a Repository Infrastructure. In this Infrastructure each Repository is harvested overnnight by NARCIS, the Dutch research portal containing informations about a.o. publications, research projects and people. Each harvest contains new records of the Dutch research output that has been produced that day. The records are described by metadata (structured data). The metadata contains a link to the pdf (unstructured data) and the the national author identifier to uniquely identify the author that has writen the publication.
SURFshare has one question: "What Advanced Search Service for Scientists with high usage potential can you think of, within the reach of current technological state of art, that makes use of the Repository Infrastructure's 'ingredients', that are of benefit to the Dutch researcher?"
For this purpose the SURFshare programme is organising a scouting meeting on Friday the 11th of December 2009, where commercial and research parties concerning search technology, language processing and information retrieval, are invided to come over and show their current state of art, and help us find find a service that is benificial for the researcher at the end of the day.
SURFshare is thinking about a social network of scientics automatically created by the similarity of their publications, where this social network can be integrated with the current social networks like linked-in and facebook. This social network can notify/recommend the researcher when one of his friends/collegues added a new publication in their repository. Questions that might come up during the discussion might be about the feasibility, is the technology ready, is the infrastructure ready, wat might we change to the infrastructure to make it more feasible?
Currently we are inviting parties to join in.
The exact details of the agenda will become more clear towards the meeting date. The draft agenda looks like the following:
time |
activity |
|---|---|
12:30 |
welcome, coffee and tea |
13:00 |
opening & key note |
13:30 |
The Dutch Repository Infrastructure & Enhanced Publications |
13:50 |
SURFshare Expert Finder demo |
14:10 |
3 x 20 minute sessions of research and commercial presenters of search and semantic-web technology (incl. 5 min. questions) |
14:30 |
3 x 20 minute sessions of research and commercial presenters of search and semantic-web technology (incl. 5 min. questions) |
14:50 |
3 x 20 minute sessions of research and commercial presenters of search and semantic-web technology (incl. 5 min. questions) |
15:10 |
coffee break |
15:30 |
creative session; finding the most useful Advanced Search Service for Scientists (workgroups and poster presentations) |
17:00 |
end of session: drinks |
We are looking for the following presenters that have a search company or active in the field of Expert finding, language processing, etc.
Possible candidates from the following research departments: Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Online Communities, Social Web Interaction, Web 2.0 expertice, etc.
As an audience you are very welcome to discuss about the Advanced Search Service for Scientists you can think about after listening to the current state of art of the presenters. We are very interesed to hear a voice from the researcher, librarian or repository manager's point of view.
Suggested reading:
Web & wetenschap: op weg naar science 2.0; Prof. Dr. Frank van Harmelen
Enhanced Publications; Saskia Woutersen, et al.
Design and Evaluation of a University-wide Expert Search Engine; Ruud Liebregts and Toine Bogers
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