Ricardo Kawase presenting @ESWC2014 LinkedUp – Vidi Challenge
Every year thousands of new research works are indexed and published online. Scientific publications involve mainly two sets of actors; namely, authors and articles. Consequently, a huge tangle of relations emerge together, where authors collaborate with several other authors and articles reference past literature. Due to this complex network, keeping up to date with the latest research in a particular field is often a time consuming task. Currently, available tools to explore such information are solely text based. The information seeker has to search, browse and navigate page by page in order to find relevant research. Yet, one cannot harness an overview of underlying networks and connections. At the same time, there is an abundance of information in the form of nearly disjoint datasets relevant to research and the actors involved in the Linked Open Data cloud. To facilitate the exploration of authors, scientific research and relations, we propose a visual exploratory interface for DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. To further enrich the data we extract authors’ keywords from the articles and additionally annotate each article with identified DBPedia entities. The presentation layer consists of several user friendly exploratory interfaces that utilize state of the art javascript library D3 (Data-Driven Documents). Our interfaces include overview of particular venues, authors’ profiles, scientific articles, relations and a knowledge base of keywords and semantic annotations. To complete our work, we expose all the enriched data as linked data. – See more at: http://linkedup-challenge.org/vidi/#DBLPXplorer
Authors: Ricardo Kawase, Ujwal Gadiraju and Patrick Siehndel
Demo: http://www.l3s.de/~kawase/DBLPXplorer/
Ricardo Kawase 