Connecting Closed World Research Information Systems Through the Linked Open Data Web

Abstract

Research Information Systems (RIS) play a critical role in the sharing of scienti¯c information and provide researchers, professionals and decision makers with the required data for their activities. Existing RIS standards have proposed data models to represent the main entities for storage and exchange. These account for the needs of multiple stakeholders through a high°e xibility based on a formal syntax and declared semantics, but for techno-historical reasons they assume the completeness of information within system boundaries. The distributed nature of research information across systems calls for a mechanism to link the local entities from the closed world of concrete RISs with other possibly underspeci¯ed entities exposed through other means, as for example, the Linked Open Data Web. By transformation of a relational model into an open graph model, di®erences between the two system paradigms are revealed. The main principles and techniques for exposing CERIF-driven relational data as linked data will be provided as a¯rst step demonstrating e®ective RISs interconnection through the linked open data (LOD) Web.

Privacy-Preserving Reengineeringof Model-View-Controller ApplicationArchitectures Using Linked Data

“…A thorough inspection was carried out on the software libraries implementation, in order to filter out components that do not provide an equivalent function to our solution's, or have nothing in common between compared frameworks. To ensure a comparable scope and to avoid bias in the filtering criteria, all the library components were carefully analyzed by experts who had previously built IS [25] and SPM applications [43] using these LD frameworks.…”

“…It has also some constraints and limitations that will be discussed later. Before articulating the suggestion phase of the research methodology, we have participated in the development of linked open data systems for a number of disciplines, such as Information Science (IS) [25] and Software Process Management (SPM) [43], in which we used the LD tools and frameworks analyzed above. As a consequence, a number of methodological and practical considerations for LDAA reengineering have emerged and influenced the proposed methodology.…”

An application profile for research collaboration and information management

“…Although CERIF covers the research information needed to manage research projects and can be adapted to support information exchanges for interoperability among several systems, it is a conceptual model based on the entity-relationship model, which does not directly support information sharing. Consequently, the CERIF model must be extended to achieve interoperability and enable research resource sharing, as in Jörg et al (2012a), Joerg et al (2012b), and the VOA 3 R. Therefore, this study develops an application profile for research management systems, such that research information required in the entire research development lifecycle is readily interoperable, sharable, and linkable. An approach to the development of such an application profile is detailed in the next section.…”

Consuming and producing linked open data: the case of OpenCourseWare

“…The use of Linked Data is widely documented e.g. (Álvarez et al, 2012;García-Crespo et al, 2010;Joerg et al, 2012), but in education is in particular remarkable. For instance (Ruiz-Calleja et al, 2012) propose a tool to collect data from third-party sources, align it to a vocabulary understandable by educators and finally publish it to be consumed by educational applications.…”