Too many tags spoil the metadata: investigating the knowledge management of scientific research with semantic web technologies
Too many tags spoil the metadata: investigating the knowledge management of scientific research with semantic web technologies
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DOI：
10.1186/s13321-019-0345-8
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发表时间：
2019-03-21
影响因子：
8.6
通讯作者：
Frey, Jeremy G.
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作者：
Kanza, Samantha;Gibbins, Nicholas;Frey, Jeremy G.
科学研究的特点越来越多地体现在它产生的文件和数据的数量上，从实验计划和原始数据到报告和论文。研究人员经常努力管理和整理这些材料，无论是单独的还是集体的。学术界和工业界之前对电子实验室笔记本(ELN)的研究已经确定，语义网技术是组织科学文档以改进当前工作流程和知识管理实践的一种手段。在这篇文章中，我们提出了一个定性的，以用户为中心的研究人员的要求和实践，基于一系列的学科特定的焦点小组。我们开发了一个原型语义ELN，作为这些焦点小组的讨论辅助工具，并帮助我们探索一系列语义Web技术的技术准备情况。虽然这些技术显示出了潜力，但现有的语义标注工具并没有被我们的焦点小组很好地接受，在它们可以用于增强当前的研究人员实践之前，需要进行改进。此外，标记和搜索文档这个看似简单的概念看起来一点也不简单；我们焦点小组中的研究人员对如何组织他们的工作有非常个人的要求，所以成功地将语义网技术整合到他们的实践中必须允许很大程度的定制和个性化。
Scientific research is increasingly characterised by the volume of documents and data that it produces, from experimental plans and raw data to reports and papers. Researchers frequently struggle to manage and curate these materials, both individually and collectively. Previous studies of Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) in academia and industry have identified semantic web technologies as a means for organising scientific documents to improve current workflows and knowledge management practices. In this paper, we present a qualitative, user-centred study of researcher requirements and practices, based on a series of discipline-specific focus groups. We developed a prototype semantic ELN to serve as a discussion aid for these focus groups, and to help us explore the technical readiness of a range of semantic web technologies. While these technologies showed potential, existing tools for semantic annotation were not well-received by our focus groups, and need to be refined before they can be used to enhance current researcher practices. In addition, the seemingly simple notion of tagging and searching documents appears anything but; the researchers in our focus groups had extremely personal requirements for how they organise their work, so the successful incorporation of semantic web technologies into their practices must permit a significant degree of customisation and personalisation.