DSHR's Blog: The Orphans of Scholarship

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-04-12

Summary:

"First, discovering a researcher's Web identities. This is difficult, because the fragmented nature of the research infrastructure leads to researchers having accounts, and thus identities at many different Web sites (ORCID, Github, ResearchGate, ...). There's no consistent way to discover and link them. They discuss two approaches:

  • EgoSystem, developed at LANL, takes biographical information about an individual and uses heuristics to find Web identities for them in a set of target Web sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn.
  • Mining ORCID for identities. Ideally, researchers would have ORCID IDs and their ORCID profiles would point to their research-related Web identities. Alas, ORCID's coverage outside the sciences, and outside the US and UK, is poor, and there is no standard for the information included in ORCID profiles.

Second, discovering artifacts per Web identity. This is easier. Once you have a researcher's Web identities, conventional Web searching and page analysis techniques can harvest artifact links quite effectively. However, there is potentially a serious problem of over-collection. For example, which of the images in a researcher's Flickr account are research-related as opposed to vacation-related? Third, determining the Web boundary per artifact. This is the domain of Signposting, which I wrote about here. The issues are very similar to those in Web Infrastructure to Support e-Journal Preservation (and More) by Herbert, Michael and myself. Fourth, capturing artifacts in the artifact's Web boundary. After mentioning the legal uncertainties caused by widely varying license terms among the sites hosting research artifacts, a significant barrier in practice, they show that different capture tools vary widely in their ability to collect usable Mementos of artifacts from the various sites. Building on Not all mementos are created equal: measuring the impact of missing resources, they describe a system for automatically scoring the quality of Mementos. This may be applicable to the LOCKSS harvest ingest pipeline; the team hopes to evaluate it soon."

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http://blog.dshr.org/2017/04/the-orphans-of-scholarship.html

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04/12/2017, 23:12

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04/12/2017, 19:12