Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation

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Hauptverfasser: Zloch, Matthäus, Dessì, Danilo, D'Souza, Jennifer, Castro, Leyla Jael, Zapilko, Benjamin, Karmakar, Saurav, Mathiak, Brigitte, Stocker, Markus, Otto, Wolfgang, Auer, Sören, Dietze, Stefan
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author Zloch, Matthäus
Dessì, Danilo
D'Souza, Jennifer
Castro, Leyla Jael
Zapilko, Benjamin
Karmakar, Saurav
Mathiak, Brigitte
Stocker, Markus
Otto, Wolfgang
Auer, Sören
Dietze, Stefan
author_facet Zloch, Matthäus
Dessì, Danilo
D'Souza, Jennifer
Castro, Leyla Jael
Zapilko, Benjamin
Karmakar, Saurav
Mathiak, Brigitte
Stocker, Markus
Otto, Wolfgang
Auer, Sören
Dietze, Stefan
contents Sharing and reusing research artifacts, such as datasets, publications, or methods is a fundamental part of scientific activity, where heterogeneity of resources and metadata and the common practice of capturing information in unstructured publications pose crucial challenges. Reproducibility of research and finding state-of-the-art methods or data have become increasingly challenging. In this context, the concept of Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs) has emerged, aiming at providing an easy to use and machine-actionable representation of research artifacts and their relations. That is facilitated through the use of established principles for data representation, the consistent adoption of globally unique persistent identifiers and the reuse and linking of vocabularies and data. This paper provides the first conceptualisation of the RKG vision, a categorisation of in-use RKGs together with a description of RKG building blocks and principles. We also survey real-world RKG implementations differing with respect to scale, schema, data, used vocabulary, and reliability of the contained data. We also characterise different RKG construction methodologies and provide a forward-looking perspective on the diverse applications, opportunities, and challenges associated with the RKG vision.
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spellingShingle Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
Zloch, Matthäus
Dessì, Danilo
D'Souza, Jennifer
Castro, Leyla Jael
Zapilko, Benjamin
Karmakar, Saurav
Mathiak, Brigitte
Stocker, Markus
Otto, Wolfgang
Auer, Sören
Dietze, Stefan
Information Retrieval
Sharing and reusing research artifacts, such as datasets, publications, or methods is a fundamental part of scientific activity, where heterogeneity of resources and metadata and the common practice of capturing information in unstructured publications pose crucial challenges. Reproducibility of research and finding state-of-the-art methods or data have become increasingly challenging. In this context, the concept of Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs) has emerged, aiming at providing an easy to use and machine-actionable representation of research artifacts and their relations. That is facilitated through the use of established principles for data representation, the consistent adoption of globally unique persistent identifiers and the reuse and linking of vocabularies and data. This paper provides the first conceptualisation of the RKG vision, a categorisation of in-use RKGs together with a description of RKG building blocks and principles. We also survey real-world RKG implementations differing with respect to scale, schema, data, used vocabulary, and reliability of the contained data. We also characterise different RKG construction methodologies and provide a forward-looking perspective on the diverse applications, opportunities, and challenges associated with the RKG vision.
title Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07285