I have always been passionate about technology. When I bought my first computer (special thanks to my father for funding it), and got it connected to the internet, it soon became part of my life: downloading movies, music, studying, chatting, engaging with different communities, writing a blog, buying and selling stuff. The web gave me […]
Author: angelosalatino
Awesome Scholarly Data Analysis
Awesome Scholarly Data Analysis is a curated collection of resources that can support Scholarly Data analytics. This list ranges from: Datasets, which includes different corpora of papers, citations, authors and others, as well as taxonomies and ontologies of research concepts; Tools for collecting and classifying research papers, information extraction, and visualization; and Venues, Summer Schools, […]
The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology
The new ontology portal is the largest taxonomy of research topics in computer science available to date Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University are partnering to provide a comprehensive Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a broad range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of […]
28 Nov 2018: Dissertation submitted
Today it was the day that every PhD student waits for: thesis submission day. I finally managed to make all the corrections suggested by my supervisors and after printing it, I went to the Research Degrees Office to leave my copies. Now I feel like something is missing but life goes on. I am already […]
Are citation networks really acyclic?
Simple answer: no. However, before getting into a more detailed answer, allow me to briefly introduce the concept of citation networks, then I will describe why citation networks cannot be considered acyclic anymore. In the scholarly domain, citation networks is an information network in which each node represents a scientific paper and a link between […]
Springer Nature Video of Berlin’s Hack Day
Last April, with my team, we attended the Springer Nature HackDay in Berlin (here is the post). Recently, Springer Nature released a short video featuring us. Summarised is also my interview, in which I discuss my research project and why we think SciGraph is important for those who work in the field of Science of Science. […]
Invited Talk – Early detection of Research Topics
On 2nd of August 2018, I have been invited by Boris Veytsman, Principal Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (formerly Meta), to give a talk about my PhD work. Differently from my previous talk to the ORNL group, I had the opportunity to describe my doctoral work more comprehensively. More specifically, I initially showed what is available […]
Invited Talk – AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics
On 30th Jul 2018, I have been invited from Dasha Herrmannova, former PhD student at the KMi, to give a talk at the “Machine Learning and Graph Mining for Big Scholarly Data” workshop organised for the Computational Data Analytics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In this talk, named “AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New […]
Classifying Research Papers with the Computer Science Ontology
“Classifying Research Papers with the Computer Science Ontology” is a demo paper submitted to the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018 , 8-12 October 2018, Monterey, California, USA, 2018. Poster DOI. 10.21954/ou.rd.7204814 Poster paper PDF. http://oro.open.ac.uk/55908/ Authors. Angelo A. Salatino, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Andrea Mannocci, Francesco Osborne, Enrico Motta Abstract. Ontologies of research areas are important tools for characterising, exploring and […]
KMi Lab Photo 2018
After our last town meeting (with all the members of the KMi), we took a lab picture. It was since two years that we didn’t take one. In this picture, we wanted to show the KMi’s inclusiveness and diversity. Therefore, everyone of us was handing a flag associated to our nationality and/or birthplace. We can […]