Open Science, All The Way: Open Knowledge Maps | ZBW MediaTalk

"Apart from the written outcomes of scientific studies, an increasing amount of data, methods and intermediary results are published. However, research findings are rarely transferred to practice. Open Knowledge Maps intends to close this gap.

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At Open Knowledge Maps, we are offering an openly accessible service, which allows you to create a knowledge map for any search term. Users can choose between two databases: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) with more than 110 million scientific documents from all disciplines, and PubMed, the large biomedical database with 26 million references. We use the 100 most relevant results for a search term as reported by the respective data base as a base for our knowledge maps. The ordination and the determination of the areas is based on textual similarity of the metadata of the results. This means: the more words two documents have in common in either title, abstract, authors or journal name, the closer they are positioned on the map and the more likely they are placed in the same area."