Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects

knowDive seminar

Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 13:00

Hao Xu

With the development of digital library techniques and open access services, more and more off-the-shelf utilities for managing scientific publications are emerging and wide-spread used. Nevertheless, most online discourse of today remains an electronic facsimile of the traditional linear structured print paper lacking of semantics and interlinked knowledge. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based framework for managing ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKOs) driven by metadata and the Semantic Web technologies. The SKO Patterns Framework comprises SKO Metadata Schema, SKO Patterns Repository and SKO Editor three components corresponding to semantic layer, serialization layer and presentation layer respectively. SKO Metadata Schema specifies sets of attributes describing SKOs individually and relationally. SKO Patterns Repository constitutes a pattern language along with three main ontologies essentially facilitating to modularize rhetorical structures of scientific publications, while SKO Editor supplies a comprehensive editing and navigation environment for authoring and managing SKOs concurrently.

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