Slides from the session with Daniel Mietchen at FORCE 2017 on 26 Oct 2017 at 12:30, http://force2017.org License: CC BY

1. Daniel Mietchen
@EvoMRI
Peter Kraker
@PeterKraker
Changing The Way
We Discover Research
Rich Savage, CC BY 2.0

2. Exercise
Get together in groups of 2 to 3
Discuss the following questions:
How do you get an overview of a unknown research
field? What are the problems and challenges that you
are facing?
Record problems and challenges here:
https://is.gd/force2017

3. A Personal Story
2009: EU-NoE STELLAR: Work Package „Science 2.0“
Objective: Connect researchers in Technology
Enhanced Learning with digital tools and
platforms
Task: Exchange publication metadata between
institutions in a Web 2.0 way

4. Publication
Feeds (2009)
RSS feed with basic
metadata
Extended with RDF
triples
Based upon the SWRC
ontology

5. BuRST (2005)
RSS feed with basic
metadata
Extended with RDF
triples
Based upon the SWRC
ontology

6. Publication
Feeds (2009)
RSS feed with basic
metadata
Extended with RDF
triples
Based upon the SWRC
ontology
BuRST (2005)
RSS feed with basic
metadata
Extended with RDF
triples
Based upon the SWRC
ontology

7. Uncitedness (publications):
12% - 82% (Larivière & Gingras 2009)
Uncitedness (data): 85%
(Peters et al. 2016)
Transfer to practice (medicine):
14%, taking 17 years (Balas 1998)

8. Dark Knowledge
(Jonathan Jeschke)

10. Academic literature search tools
(ALST) only serve a third or less
I find it easy to identify relevant
publications using ALST
I find it easy to formulate a query when
searching in an unknown research
topic/field
I find it hard to get an overview of academic
literature on a research topic using ALST
Academic literature search takes too much
time
28.6
%
31.4
%
33.3
%
34.4
%
n=107
Agreement
Agreement
Disagreement
Disagreement

12. Open Knowledge Maps
A non-profit organization
dedicated to dramatically
improving the visibility
of scientific knowledge
for science and society alike

13. Overview of heart diseases

14. https://openknowledgemaps.org

15. Advantages

16. Open science, all the way
Open Source https://github.com/OpenKnowledgeMaps
Open Content Open Data (planned)
Working in the open
Open roadmap
Open proposals
Participatory development

17. The first 16
months
Featured on the front pages of reddit &
HackerNews
180,000+ visits on the site, 40,000+ maps
created, 350+ participants in workshops
Winner of the
Open Minds Award

18. Collaborative discovery
https://vimeo.com/188647919

19. Daniel Mietchen
@EvoMRI
Peter Kraker
@PeterKraker
Thank you for your
attention!
Rich Savage, CC BY 2.0