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The transfer of knowledge has not changed fundamentally for many hundreds of years: It is usually document-based - formerly printed on paper as a classic essay and nowadays as PDF. With around 2.5 million new research contributions every year, researchers drown in a flood of pseudo-digitized PDF publications. As a result research is seriously weakened. In this article, we argue for representing scholarly contributions in a structured and semantic way as a knowledge graph. The advantage is that information represented in a knowledge graph is readable by machines and humans. As an example, we give an overview on the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), a service implementing this approach. For creating the knowledge graph representation, we rely on a mixture of manual (crowd/expert sourcing) and (semi-)automated techniques. Only with such a combination of human and machine intelligence, we can achieve the required quality of the representation to allow for novel exploration and assistance services for researchers. As a result, a scholarly knowledge graph such as the ORKG can be used to give a condensed overview on the state-of-the-art addressing a particular research quest, for example as a tabular comparison of contributions according to various characteristics of the approaches. Further possible intuitive access interfaces to such scholarly knowledge graphs include domain-specific (chart) visualizations or answering of natural language questions.

Die TIB gestaltet aktiv den digitalen Wandel von Bibliotheken mit – in Form von Open Science, Open Access, Forschungsdaten und digitaler Langzeitarchivierung sowie bei der Entwicklung von Diensten an der Schnittstelle von analogen und digitalen Formaten. Sie baut ihre Rolle als deutsches Informationszentrum für die Digitalisierung von Wissenschaft und Technik in Zukunft weiter aus und setzt auf die Entwicklung neuer digitaler Angebote, die klassische bibliothekarische Dienste und innovative Forschungsergebnisse miteinander verzahnen. Als wissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtung steht sie vor zwei großen Herausforderungen: Als Deutsche Zentrale Fachbibliothek für Technik und Naturwissenschaften bewegt sie sich als Akteurin im Zentrum des digitalen Wandels des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, des digitalen Publikationswesens und der Globalisierung von Information und Kommunikation. Gleichzeitig erbringt sie als von Bund und Ländern finanzierte Einrichtung verstärkt eigene Forschung. TIB plays an active role in achieving the digital transformation of libraries – not only in the form of open science, open access, research data and digital preservation, but also in the development of services at the interface between analogue and digital formats. The library will continue to expand its role as the German information centre for the digitalisation of science and technology in the future, focusing on the development of new digital offerings that link traditional library services with innovative research results. As a scientific infrastructure facility, TIB faces two major challenges: being the German national library of science and technology, it operates as a stakeholder at the heart of the transition to the digital production of scientific work, digital publishing, and the globalisation of information and communication. At the same time, TIB increasingly conducts its own research as an institute financed by the German federation and the federal states.

Zenodo : research shared 2020, (2020). doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4015201, Published by CERN, Genève

This document is a shortened version of the project proposal.

Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken haben eine lange Tradition zu kooperieren und scheinen, wenn man sich die folgenden Beispiele anschaut, prädestiniert für erfolgreiche Kooperationen auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene.

In this post, the ChemRxiv Governing Board and Management Team describe the achievements of the past year and detail some of our plans for the future of ChemRxiv.

Description of ORCID Task Force on Membership and Fees, which ran from March - July 2017

In this post, the ChemRxiv Governing Board and Management Team describe the achievements of the past year and detail some of our plans for the future of ChemRxiv.

Positionspapier zur geplanten Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) für die Ingenieurwissenschaften.

Commissioned by the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, engage AG conducted a quantitative online survey on the topic of information procurement and publishing behaviour among researchers in the natural sciences and engineering between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. More than 1,400 researchers from German higher education institutions (HEIs) and non-university research institutions provided insight into their research activities and expressed their opinions. The aim of the study was to gain a more accurate and varied picture of potential library users and their information procurement and publishing behaviour. The survey focused on the use, production and handling of non-textual material such as audiovisual media, 3D objects and research data, which have so far been little studied in the library context. The questionnaire used in the survey contained closed questions, addressing issues relating to the use of search tools and to modes of access in information procurement as well as to the production and publication of various scientific contributions and material. A number of questions were aimed at determining the need for advice on matters such as Open Access publications, the use of repositories and the allocation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for non-textual material. As such, the study sheds light on the user behaviour of researchers as well as their potential need for new services and user-centred advisory services.

Zusammenfassung des Workshops und Visualisierung der Umfrageerbegnisse der Umfrage "Bedarf und Anforderungen an Ressourcen für Text und Data Mining" der Schwerpunktinitiative "Digitale Information" der Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen, Arbeitsgruppe Text und Data Mining

The European High Level Expert Group on Scientific data (2010) has formulated the challenges for a scientific infrastructure to be reached by 2030: “Our vision is a scientific e‐infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re‐use, and trust of data. In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”. Here, “data” is not restricted to primary data but also includes all non‐textual material (graphs, spectra, videos, 3D objects, etc.). The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) must now rise to these challenges: developing solutions together with the scientific community to make such data available, citable, sharable and usable, including visual search tools and enhanced content‐based retrieval. With solutions such as DataCite and modular development for extraction, indexing and visual searching of new scientific metadata, TIB will ride this wave and will make all data accessible to its users fast, convenient and easy to use.

In the last decade the primary data, research is based on has become a third pillar of scientific work alongside with theoretical reasoning and experiment. Greatly increased computing power and storage, together with web services and other electronic resources have facilitated a quantum leap in new research based on the analysis of great amounts of data. However, traditional scientific communication only slowly changes to new media other than an emulation of paper. This leaves many data inaccessible and, in the long run exposes valuable data to the risk of loss. Most important to the availabilty of data is a valid citation. This means that all fields mandatory for a bibliographic citation are included. In addition a mechanism is needed that ensures that the location of the referenced data on the Internet can be resolved on a long-term. Just using URLs by doing "data management on web servers" does not help at all because it is short-lived, mostly becoming invalid after just a few months. Data publication on the Internet therefore needs a system of reliable pointers to each digital object as integral part of the citation. To achieve this persistence of identifiers for their conventional publications many scientific publishers use Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). The identifier is resolved through the handle system to the valid location (URL) where the dataset can be found. This approach meets one of the prerequisites for citeability of scientific data published online. In addition, the valid bibliographic citation can be included in the catalogues of Libraries. To improve access to data and to create incentives for scientists to make their data accessible, some german data centers initiated a project on publication and citation of scientific data. The project "Publication and Citation of Scientific Data" (STD-DOI) was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) between 2003 and 2008. In STD-DOI the German National Library for Science and Technology (TIB Hannover), together with the German Research Centre for Geoscience (GFZ Potsdam), the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, and the DLR German Remote Sensing Data Center set up the first system to assign DOIs to data sets and finaly to its publications. The STD-DOI system for data publication is now used by eight data publication agents. Data publication through specific agents addresses specific user communities and cater for their requirements in the data publication process. The registration process between TIB and the publication agents is based on a SOAP web service. This presentation will show the organisational and technical aspects of the data publication process through the STD-DOI project and give examples of a successful workflow towards established data citations in the earth sciences.