Trip Report: Elsevier Visit 13th September 2007

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

Introducting "Elsevier Labs" & their 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. publications, structures, proteins, etc.
author support, e.g. to help tagging the content semantically
research data - become more important and need to be stored as well as related to other entities
desktop tools, e.g. for search and retrieval
virtual communities, e.g. for scientific collaboration

Exemplary Projects:

BioImage (UK): to come for a metadata standard for images
DOPE for Economics (University of Mannheim): - semantic entities. visualizing content concepts in economic
Metadata Madness (neuroscience editors): authoring tool to semantically enrich neuroscience publications by bibliographic references, biological references, multimedia entities
OKKAM (many partners): architecture to build a global web of entities
Pragmatic Research Article (University of Utrecht). Final goal: To develop a structure to find out how the knowledge is derived from/represented in a publication
- Analyzing the storyboards of scientific papers. Finding: 3-5 episodes and then resolution.
- Analyzing rhetorical moves. Finding: Problems are described in "past" forms

Anita pointed us to: CATCH (Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage) = dutch funding program to develop ontologies to describe cultural heritage objects