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Towards Research Infrastructures that Curate Scientific Information: A Use Case in Life Sciences

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Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2018)

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Scientific information communicated in scholarly literature remains largely inaccessible to machines. The global scientific knowledge base is little more than a collection of (digital) documents. The main reason is in the fact that the document is the principal form of communication and—since underlying data, software and other materials mostly remain unpublished—the fact that the scholarly article is, essentially, the only form used to communicate scientific information. Based on a use case in life sciences, we argue that virtual research environments and semantic technologies are transforming the capability of research infrastructures to systematically acquire and curate machine readable scientific information communicated in scholarly literature.

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    Open Research Knowledge Graph: http://orkg.org (Accessed: October 16, 2018).

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    https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/ (Accessed: October 16, 2018).

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We thank the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology for supporting this project and our colleagues and the participants of the project’s workshop series for their contributions.

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  2. PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Leobener Strasse 8, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Markus Stocker

  3. Division of Molecular and Translational Cardiology, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany

    Fatemeh Rostami & Tibor Kempf

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Stocker, M., Prinz, M., Rostami, F., Kempf, T. (2019). Towards Research Infrastructures that Curate Scientific Information: A Use Case in Life Sciences. In: Auer, S., Vidal, ME. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06016-9_6

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