In this workshop, SciLake representatives will elaborate on the mission of building a comprehensive scholarly communication graph and the technical solutions under development. Representatives from key ESFRIs will present their ongoing work on the creation and maintenance of domain-specific SKGs, their current needs and identified challenges. By exploring the initiatives of these projects, we aim to provide insights into the usage of SKGs in Open Science activities and the impact they have on research output and collaborations.
In this workshop, SciLake representatives will elaborate on the mission of building a comprehensive scholarly communication graph and the technical solutions under development. Representatives from key ESFRIs will present their ongoing work on the creation and maintenance of domain-specific SKGs, their current needs and identified challenges. By exploring the initiatives of these projects, we aim to provide insights into the usage of SKGs in Open Science activities and the impact they have on research output and collaborations.
In recent years, a variety of both domain-specific and cross-domain Science Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) have been created in the context of academic or industrial activities. These resources contain valuable information and are catalyzing the creation and provision of advanced knowledge extraction and exploration services, which are intended to increase research productivity, shorten the time between hypotheses and results, and provide the basis for a powerful toolbox that supports important workflows for researchers and other stakeholders by allowing informed and fact-based decisions. As a result, SKGs are of great value to the research community at large and various research communities have started building their own domain-specific SKGs and linking them with cross-domain knowledge graphs, like the OpenAIRE Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu/).
In this context, researchers participating in the five thematic clusters of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) have given significant effort to develop their own SKGs and useful added-value services on top of them to facilitate knowledge management and exploration in the respective disciplines. At the same time, building SKGs and making them interoperable to unlock their full potential is a challenging task. There are various challenges that should be addressed, most of them being related to the complexity of the domains to be represented, the multilinguality of scientific texts, the interconnectivity of the involved entities, the lack of structure in organizing the respective knowledge (e.g., in text), and the heterogeneity of the available metadata formats. SciLake (https://scilake.eu/) is a Horizon Europe project that aims to alleviate the previous issues. More specifically, it aims to extend the technical work in the field of SKGs leveraging them as the foundation to establish the concept of the scientific lake: a research ecosystem to facilitate creating, combining, and querying cross-domain and domain-specific SKGs. This ecosystem, among others, will comprise tools that are capable to extract knowledge from unstructured (e.g., textual) information, facilitate the interoperability among SKGs, support various types of knowledge transformation, unify and simplify the way SKGs can be queried, and accelerate graph processing and analysis for SKGs. Finally, SciLake will build a prototype of this concept also delivering, on top of it, a series of EOSC-onboarded services to assist researchers in discovering scientific knowledge and improving research reproducibility.
In this workshop, representatives from key ESFRIs will present their ongoing work on the creation and maintenance of domain-specific SKGs, their current needs and identified challenges. SciLake representatives will elaborate on the mission of building a comprehensive scholarly communication graph and the technical solutions which are under development. By exploring the initiatives of these projects we aim to provide insights into the usage of the SKGs in Open Science activities and the impact they have on research output and collaborations.
In conclusion, the session will investigate the potential cooperation and common goals of these initiatives in the creation of multidisciplinary interlinked SKGs. In addition, the importance of the scientific lake concept will be discussed, as well as its impact on different research communities. The session will provide participants with an opportunity to engage with the speakers and provide feedback on their work, as well as to examine how SKGs will impact their research outputs and assist them in responding to the Open Science requirements.
Key learning outcomes:
- Learn about the creation of Scientific Knowledge Graphs, specifically how to convert data into knowledge and how to use them to promote Open Science to improve navigation and discovery.
- Discover the challenges associated with delivering high-quality SKGs in terms of coverage, timeliness, accuracy, and consistency, where and how good curation practices and AI come into play.
- Learn about the various needs and efforts coming from different disciplines: Research Infrastructures (neuroscience, biodiversity, photon/neutron), national infrastructures (cancer), and emerging research communities (transport, energy)
- .Explore how diverse SKGs and projects can work together to create interconnected multidisciplinary SKGs.
- Learn about the concept of a scientific lake, the services it can provide to the SKG community, and the impact it has on various research communities.
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