Re: use case for W3 Library Linked Data incubator group?

Thanks again for this, William!

We corrected the URL, and have put your use case on the Library Linked Data
wiki at
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Use_Case_Mendeley_Research_Networks_for_linking_researchers_and_publications

Best,
Jodi

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:33 PM, William Gunn <william.gunn@gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool, thanks for the input.
>
> Oh, I just noticed that I mistyped the URL for Mendeley in the Existing
> Work section.  Here's the correct URL for your cut-and-paste convenience:
> http://mendeley.com
>
> Thanks again, Jodi, and let me know if I can help with anything else in the
> future.
>
> William Gunn
> +1 646 755 9862
> http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider@pobox.com>wrote:
>
>> This is definitely in-scope! Thanks for it, William! :) -Jodi
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:26 PM, William Gunn <william.gunn@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Jodi!  Please see my responses below. Hope it's not too tardy of a
>> > response ;-)  I wasn't sure if citation metadata fit a properly narrow
>> > definition of library linked data. I could also present a case regarding
>> > usage stats of library content, if you think that would be more on
>> point.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider@pobox.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi William,
>> >> It was wonderful to meet you in person this week!
>> >> I think Mendeley could make a great social use case for Library Linked
>> >> Data. Details of what we're looking for are below, but please let me
>> know if
>> >> you have any questions!
>> >> Have a wonderful weekend!
>> >> -Jodi
>> >> ================================================================
>> >> Call for Use Cases: Social uses and other new uses of Library Linked
>> Data
>> >> The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group -
>> >> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/
>> >>
>> >> === Name ===
>> >
>> > Mendeley Research Networks for linking researchers and publications.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Owner ===
>> >>
>> >
>> > William Gunn
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Background and Current Practice ===
>> >>
>> >
>> > The existing system by which scientific knowledge flows from discovery
>> to
>> > publication to new discovery involves a publishing and peer review
>> process.
>> > For many fields, particularly life sciences, this is time consuming and
>> > inefficient as the knowledge discovered must be distilled into a form
>> > suitable for a printed publication.  In the process, much of the context
>> and
>> > links are lost, as when a data set is rendered as an image and published
>> as
>> > a PDF. This leads to the body of knowledge existing as different silos
>> of
>> > unstructured information and creates a large delay as the work goes
>> through
>> > the editorial and printing processes of the publisher to which the work
>> was
>> > submitted. In response to this, Mendeley proposes to add context back to
>> > publications through crowdsourced social and attention-based metadata as
>> > well as algorithmic approaches to linking documents.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Goal ===
>> >
>> > 1. Collect the the world's academic literature. By the end of 2011, if
>> > current rates continue, we expect to have 80-90% coverage.
>> >
>> > 2. Collect annotations, tags, and document usage data on the document
>> > corpus.
>> >
>> > 3. Use this information as well as established algorithmic approaches to
>> > enrich the publication metadata and make this information available via
>> API
>> > so that further applications can be built, such as a more advanced way
>> of
>> > understanding paper-paper, paper-researcher, and researcher-researcher
>> > relationships besides "A cites B".
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Target Audience ===
>> >>
>> > The target audience is researchers, developers, and publishers of
>> scholarly
>> > communications.
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Use Case Scenario ===
>> >>
>> > Researcher A wants to know if a method described in Paper A has been
>> > criticized and what the commentary was.  Researcher A searches for the
>> paper
>> > in the Mendeley research catalog, papers listed on the catalog page for
>> the
>> > paper as related to Paper A and reads those, discovering related
>> commentary
>> > both in the paper itself and added to the document by the readers of the
>> > paper within Mendeley.  Researcher A then searches for the method from
>> Paper
>> > A in the Mendeley research catalog and retrieves results based on the
>> > relative level of readership of the paper, thereby accessing the most
>> > relevant published commentary about the method.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Application of linked data for the given use case ===
>> >
>> > The related papers would be identified by means of readership, but
>> > co-citation is also possible. The strength of the relationships can be
>> > derived by citation and readership graph analysis.  Ranking of search
>> > results can be derived in a similar fashion. Custom search operators
>> could
>> > also enable searches for only criticizing or supporting publications,
>> for
>> > example.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Existing Work (optional) ===
>> >>
>> > The existing work at http://medneley.com implements some of this and
>> plans
>> > to implement the rest.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Related Vocabularies (optional) ===
>> >
>> > We may use existing vocabularies such as the Citation Typing Ontology.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Problems and Limitations (optional) ===
>> >>
>> > The key to overcoming this challenge is collecting enough crowdsourced
>> > information on enough documents that the dataset becomes dense enough
>> that
>> > algorithms yield useful results for the majority of the content.
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === Related Use Cases and Unanticipated Uses (optional) ===
>> >>
>> > It is also possible that publishers may use the information to optimize
>> the
>> > readership of their own publications or that researchers may begin to
>> demand
>> > publication forms that preserve more of the structured data.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> === References (optional) ===
>> >
>> > http://mendeley.com
>> >
>> http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2009/citobase/cito-20090311/cito-content/owldoc/
>> >
>>
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