WDS Knowledge Networks Summary of Major Elements

What Must Be Done? 2 Current Situation Meta-Data Collection Aggregated Repository e.g. WDS Aggregated Repository e.g. WDS Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository

What Must Be Done? 3 Current SituationProposed Situation Meta-Data Collection Aggregated Repository e.g. WDS Aggregated Repository e.g. WDS Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository Aggregated Repository Meta-Data Mining Tools and Projects Knowledge Networks Repositories schema.org – type scrapers Network/ Institutional contributions Voluntary/ Crowdsourced contributions Publications and Citations Other RDF and LOD Resources BILLIONS of smart devices Meta-Data Automation and LOD

Main Entities 4 People Institutions RDI Outputs Projects Initiatives Networks Funders RDI: Research, Development and Innovation

Traditional Meta-Data is mostly hierarchical … 5 Citation Coverage (Temporal, Spatial, Topic) Use, Caveats, Lineage, Methods, and Licenses (Online) Resource(s) Meta-Data Management Title, Abstract and Publisher Author(s) Meta-Data Author(s) Institution Quality and Metrics

Liberalised Meta-Data is a network 6 Citation Coverage (Temporal, Spatial, Topic) Use, Caveats, Lineage, Methods, and Licenses Publisher People Institutions RDI Outputs/ Online Resources Projects Initiatives Networks Funders Relationships are contributed by (1) meta-data mining (2) information from websites conforming to schema (3) social- media-type sites and VREs (4) existing network contributions (5) scraping existing websites (6) ontologies and vocabularies (…)

What Must Be Done? Define a conceptual model for the aspects of knowledge networks that we want to manage This fixes the relationships between elements of such networks: people, institutions, funders, projects, collaborations, data, services, publications, etc. By eliminating some possible (but improbable) relationships, complexity is reduced. The conceptual model extends meta-data standards, and XXX should actively promote the more informal contributions to this resource. XXX maintains a repository (registry) of network-defining extended meta-data (RDF/a Triplets) as a public good. The conceptual model can draw on and extend resources such as schema.org 7 Major Side Benefit: Triplet-based meta-data will, in time, become standard- independent but be capable of mapping to any standard