Open Research Knowledge Graph: Next Generation Infrastructure for Semantic Scholarly Knowledge
This addresses the issue of automated processing of scholarly knowledge for researchers and institutions, but it is incremental as it builds on existing knowledge graph concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of document-based scholarly communication by proposing a knowledge graph infrastructure for machine-actionable scholarly knowledge, and results from a user evaluation show that participants were intrigued by its novelty and potential for innovative processing.
Despite improved digital access to scholarly knowledge in recent decades, scholarly communication remains exclusively document-based. In this form, scholarly knowledge is hard to process automatically. In this paper, we present the first steps towards a knowledge graph based infrastructure that acquires scholarly knowledge in machine actionable form thus enabling new possibilities for scholarly knowledge curation, publication and processing. The primary contribution is to present, evaluate and discuss multi-modal scholarly knowledge acquisition, combining crowdsourced and automated techniques. We present the results of the first user evaluation of the infrastructure with the participants of a recent international conference. Results suggest that users were intrigued by the novelty of the proposed infrastructure and by the possibilities for innovative scholarly knowledge processing it could enable.