“The Computer Science Ontology: A Comprehensive Automatically-Generated Taxonomy of Research Areas” is a journal paper submitted to the Special Issue on Best Resources papers of the Data Intelligence Jornal (MIT Press). Authors Angelo A. Salatino1, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam1, Andrea Mannocci1, Aliaksandr Birukou2, Francesco Osborne1, Enrico Motta1 1 Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK 2 […]
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Improving Editorial Workflow and Metadata Quality at Springer Nature
Identifying the research topics that best describe the scope of a scientific publication is a crucial task for editors, in particular because the quality of these annotations determine how effectively users are able to discover the right content in online libraries. For this reason, Springer Nature, the world’s largest academic book publisher, has traditionally entrusted this task to their most expert editors. These editors manually analyse all new books, possibly including hundreds of chapters, and produce a list of the most relevant topics. Hence, this process has traditionally been very expensive, time-consuming, and confined to a few senior editors. For these reasons, back in 2016 we developed Smart Topic Miner (STM), an ontology-driven application that assists the Springer Nature editorial team in annotating the volumes of all books covering conference proceedings in Computer Science. Since then STM has been regularly used by editors in Germany, China, Brazil, India, and Japan, for a total of about 800 volumes per year. Over the past three years the initial prototype has iteratively evolved in response to feedback from the users and evolving requirements.
The World Wide Web turns 30
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 […]
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. […]
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/ Code: Authors. Angelo A. Salatino, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Andrea Mannocci, Francesco Osborne, Enrico Motta Abstract. Ontologies of research areas are important tools for characterising, exploring […]
The Computer Science Ontology: A Large-Scale Taxonomy of Research Areas
“The Computer Science Ontology: A Large-Scale Taxonomy of Research Areas” is a paper submitted to the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018 , 8-12 October 2018, Monterey, California, USA, 2018. Authors Angelo A. Salatino, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Andrea Mannocci, Francesco Osborne, Enrico Motta Abstract Ontologies of research areas are important tools for characterising, exploring, and analysing the research […]
Springer Nature Hack Day – Berlin
On 26-27 April 2018, Francesco Osborne and I attended the third edition of the Springer Nature Hack Day, which was held in its headquarter in Berlin. The Springer Nature Hack Day is an event that allows researchers, developers, tech companies, and Springer Nature itself, to gather together and tackle current research issues. Offering also opportunities […]
AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics
“AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics” is a paper submitted to the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2018, presented on June 5 2018, in Fort Worth, TX, USA Authors Angelo Salatino, Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta Abstract Being able to rapidly recognise new research trends is strategic for many stakeholders, including universities, institutional […]
CityLABS Project
CityLabs is a collaborative project that is grant funded by ERDF. The Open University, ZTE and Fronesys have pooled their skills to create an environment that engages SMEs in research and business development. CityLabs is a place for SMEs to work with academic and industry leaders to develop concepts into prototypes for new products and […]
Computer Science Ontology Portal (or simply CSO Portal)
The Computer Science Ontology Portal (also referred to simply as CSO Portal) is a web application that enables users to download, explore, and provide granular feedback on CSO at different levels. This last feature allows us to periodically review the status ontology and release new version according to the received feedbacks. A user can explore […]
