Das Blog der TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
Starting from March 2022, TIB’s Open Science Lab has been hosting three scholars from Ukraine, whose research were disturbed by the war. In the first week of July, an introductory webinar, dedicated to Research and Academic libraries of Ukraine was conducted. Accordingly, this blog post is meant to serve as a brief report of the webinar.
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We just launched an early version of ConfIDent.
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The tool developed in the TAPIR project enables a retrieval of PID-referenced data from selected external data sources and an automated import into the research information system VIVO
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Das im TAPIR-Projekt entwickelte Tool ermöglicht die Abfrage von PID-referenzierten Daten aus ausgewählten externen Datenquellen und den automatisierten Import in das Forschungsinformationssystem VIVO
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In the TAPIR project, we are testing partially automated procedures for research reporting in the context of university and non-university research. We are investigating the extent to which the necessary data aggregation can be carried out on the basis of openly available research information using persistent identifiers.
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Im Projekt TAPIR erproben wir teilautomatisierte Verfahren zur Forschungsberichterstattung im Kontext universitärer und außeruniversitärer Forschung. Wir gehen der Frage nach, inwiefern die dazu erforderliche Datenaggregation auf Basis offen verfügbarer Forschungsinformationen mittels persistenter Identifikatoren durchgeführt werden kann.
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Wissenschaftliche Publikationen werden mit Metadaten such- und auffindbar gemacht. Wir stellen vor, wie das BMBF-Projekt OPTIMETA Open-Access-Journals zu verbesserten Metadaten verhelfen möchte.“
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Der Aufbau von Forschungsinformationssystemen (FIS) stellt wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen vor große Herausforderungen. Oft ist es notwendig, eine Dienst- oder Betriebsvereinbarung aufzusetzen. Wir haben dies für das VIVO der TIB getan und haben die dabei gewonnenen Erkenntnisse in eine nachnutzbare Musterdienstvereinbarung einfließen lassen.
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DOIs are commonly used to persistently identify different entities of the Science system like articles. Until now conferences were not one of those entities. We minted the probably first DOI for a conference with DataCite.
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Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Academic Graph will be discontinued at the end of 2021. What does this mean? Why is this important for researchers and research institutions? The Microsoft Academic Graph is the database behind Microsoft Academic, one of the most comprehensive academic search engines. However, Microsoft does not only use the data for this in-house search service. In contrast to its well-known competitor Google Scholar, it has decided to make the data available to third parties. And this has been used many times in recent years. One reason for this is certainly the size of Microsoft Academic. In a recent study by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), various bibliographic data sources were examined, and the following figure speaks for itself – irregardless of some limitations put forward by the authors regarding comparability. Microsoft Academic is thus a huge data source that is also available via an interface and as a dump. In addition, it is prepared and documented for bibliometric analyses. The relevance of this data for science is readily apparent. The two publications describing this service have been cited (according to Microsoft Academic) more than 500 and 1700 times respectively. In the announcement of the discontinuation of the service, Microsoft mentions some alternatives. If you take a closer look at them, you will see that some of them are at least partly based on Microsoft Academic, e.g. Semantic Scholar or The Lens. The existing data will presumably continue to be used, also thanks
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