Enhanced display of scientific articles using extended metadata
Enhanced display of scientific articles using extended metadata
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DOI：
10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Page, Roderic D. M.
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作者：
Page, Roderic D. M.
尽管网络已经改变了科学出版，但科学论文本身本质上仍然是“黑匣子”，其大部分内容仅面向人类读者。通常，与文章相关联的计算机可读元数据限于书目细节。通过扩展文章元数据以包括分类名称，引用材料的标识符（例如，例如，在一个实施例中，出版物、序列、标本和其他数据）和地理坐标，出版商可以大大提高其数字内容的科学价值。与此同时，这将为用户提供新的方式来发现和浏览这些内容，超越了书目引用提供的相对有限的链接。作为概念的证明，我在爱思唯尔大挑战赛中的参赛作品从《分子系统发育与进化》杂志的一组文章中提取了扩展的元数据，并将其用于填充实体属性值数据库。该数据库的一个简单的网络界面可以增强文章内容的显示，包括明确或暗示提到的地点地图（通过链接到地理标记数据），分类覆盖范围以及数据和引用链接。元数据提取仅限于文章表格中列出的信息，如GenBank序列和标本代码。没有使用文章的主体，这一限制是为了证明提供扩展的元数据并不要求期刊的出版商免费提供全文（尽管出于其他原因，这是可取的）。(C)2010年爱思唯尔B。版权所有© 2016
Although the Web has transformed science publishing, scientific papers themselves are still essentially "black boxes", with much of their content intended for human readers only. Typically, computer-readable metadata associated with an article is limited to bibliographic details. By expanding article metadata to include taxonomic names, identifiers for cited material (e. g., publications, sequences, specimens, and other data), and geographical coordinates, publishers could greatly increase the scientific value of their digital content. At the same time this will provide novel ways for users to discover and navigate through this content, beyond the relatively limited linkage provided by bibliographic citation.As a proof of concept, my entry in the Elsevier Grand Challenge extracted extended metadata from a set of articles from the journal Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution and used it to populate an entity-attribute-value database. A simple web interface to this database enables an enhanced display of the content of an article, including a map of localities mentioned either explicitly or implicitly (through links to geotagged data), taxonomic coverage, and both data and citation links. Metadata extraction was limited to information listed in tables in the articles, such as GenBank sequences and specimen codes. The body of the article was not used, a restriction that was deliberate to demonstrate that making extended metadata available does not require a journal's publisher to make the full-text freely available (although this is desirable for other reasons). (C) 2010 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.