Trip Report: Elsevier Visit 13th September 2007

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Participants: Curt E. Kohler, Anita de Waard, Malte Dreyer, Ulla Tschida, Inga Overkamp

Introduction Elsevier Labs Academic Collaborations[edit]

Motto: "Scientists publish everywhere - and need to get back all relevant things whenever they need"

Strategy: Establish a web of entities to improve search, retrieval and interlinking of resources

Areas of interest:

  • semantic entities, e.g. a protein - need to be structurized? -
  • author support to structure
  • research data (become more and more important)
  • desktop tools
  • virtual communities

Projects:

  • BioImage (UK): to come for a metadata standard for images
  • DOPE for Economics (Germany, Uni Mannheim): - semantic entities. visualizing content concepts in economic
  • Metadata Madness (neuroscience editors): authoring tool to semenatically enrich neuroscience publications by bibliographic references, biological references, multimedia entitites
  • OKKAM (many partners): architecture to build a global web of entitites
  • Pragmatic Research Article (University of Utrecht): storyboards of scientific papers: 3-5 episodes and then resolution. Rhetorical moves... Activitietes can be. Final goal: To develop a structure to find out how the knowledge is stored/derived from a paer

MPG Introduction[edit]