Documenting the research process. Opportunities and challenges for Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval

TY - CHAP

T1 - Documenting the research process. Opportunities and challenges for Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval

AU - Daga, Enrico

AU - Daquino, Marilena

AU - Fournier-S'niehotta, Raphaël

AU - Guillotel-Nothmann, Christophe

AU - Scharnhorst, Andrea

N1 - Conference code: 13

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - This paper reports about knowledge management experiences in the EC funded project Polifonia (Research and Innovation Action funding scheme). Polifonia is a challenging project which aims at developing a methodological framework for musical heritage information. The project encompasses sources from text, sound, scores, settings (buildings), and experiences. It is organized around 10 Pilots which cover various actions such as preserving, studying, managing and interacting with musical heritage. Its advantage is that it uses semantic web technologies (ontologies and resulting knowledge graphs) as lingua franca binding the different Pilot data together. More specifically and additionally to the common use of GitHub repositories in research projects, Polifonia adds an additional organizational structure, what we call a Research Ecosystem. The Polifonia Research Ecosystem documents project outputs and their mutual dependencies as semantic artifacts, developing annotations for both (output and dependencies). This paper details the design and implementation of such a Research Ecosystem as a specific approach to effectively coordinate collaboration and related software production. Using the case of the Polifonia project, the paper reflects on the opportunities and challenges arising when it comes to formalize best practices to execute innovative research processes. Finally, we discuss the potential impact that such developments could have on future bibliometrics and information retrieval practices.

AB - This paper reports about knowledge management experiences in the EC funded project Polifonia (Research and Innovation Action funding scheme). Polifonia is a challenging project which aims at developing a methodological framework for musical heritage information. The project encompasses sources from text, sound, scores, settings (buildings), and experiences. It is organized around 10 Pilots which cover various actions such as preserving, studying, managing and interacting with musical heritage. Its advantage is that it uses semantic web technologies (ontologies and resulting knowledge graphs) as lingua franca binding the different Pilot data together. More specifically and additionally to the common use of GitHub repositories in research projects, Polifonia adds an additional organizational structure, what we call a Research Ecosystem. The Polifonia Research Ecosystem documents project outputs and their mutual dependencies as semantic artifacts, developing annotations for both (output and dependencies). This paper details the design and implementation of such a Research Ecosystem as a specific approach to effectively coordinate collaboration and related software production. Using the case of the Polifonia project, the paper reflects on the opportunities and challenges arising when it comes to formalize best practices to execute innovative research processes. Finally, we discuss the potential impact that such developments could have on future bibliometrics and information retrieval practices.

U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.10529113

DO - 10.5281/zenodo.10529113

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

SP - 4

EP - 20

BT - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval co-located with 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023)

A2 - Frommholz, Ingo

A2 - Mayr, Philipp

A2 - Cabanac, Guillaume

A2 - Verberne, Suzan

A2 - Brennan, Jordan

PB - CEUR-WS.org

T2 - 13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval

Y2 - 2 April 2023 through 2 April 2023

ER -