TY - GEN
T1 - Research networks in data repositories
AU - Costa, Mark R.
AU - Qin, Jian
AU - Wang, Jun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - This paper reports our ongoing work investigating the structural features of scientific collaboration based on metadata collected from a scientific data repository (SDR). The background literature is reviewed in supporting our claim that metadata collected from SDRs offer a complimentary data source to traditional publication metadata collected from digital libraries. Methodological considerations are discussed in association with using metadata from SDRs, including author name disambiguation and data parsing. Initial findings show that the network has some unique macro-level structural features while also in agreement with existing networks theories. Challenges due to inconsistent metadata quality control procedures are also discussed in an attempt to reinforce claims that metadata should be designed to support both domain specific retrieval and evaluation and assessment needs.
AB - This paper reports our ongoing work investigating the structural features of scientific collaboration based on metadata collected from a scientific data repository (SDR). The background literature is reviewed in supporting our claim that metadata collected from SDRs offer a complimentary data source to traditional publication metadata collected from digital libraries. Methodological considerations are discussed in association with using metadata from SDRs, including author name disambiguation and data parsing. Initial findings show that the network has some unique macro-level structural features while also in agreement with existing networks theories. Challenges due to inconsistent metadata quality control procedures are also discussed in an attempt to reinforce claims that metadata should be designed to support both domain specific retrieval and evaluation and assessment needs.
KW - Scientific data repositories
KW - complex network analysis
KW - metadata
KW - scientific collaboration
KW - scientific collaboration networks
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U2 - 10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970197
DO - 10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84919341650
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
SP - 403
EP - 406
BT - 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 14th IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014
Y2 - 8 September 2014 through 12 September 2014
ER -