A core effort in RISIS has been to harmonize organisations across the different datasets involved in the project. This represents an important step towards interoperability, as it allows users to combine organisational-level data in fast and reliable ways, for example looking at publications, patents and projects. Harmonization is achieved through the establishment of registers that provide a verified list of organisations including identifiers stable over time and across datasets. The register of public research organisations…
ISWC is the premier international forum, for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. This year's ISWC was held in Vienna where RISIS/SMS team presented three RISIS project-related presentations addressing the use of Semantic Web technologies for data integration and analysis. Among them, one work was presented in the SemSci workshop for enabling open semantic science and two were presented in VOILA workshop which is about Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data: Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) Platform…
Up to now, STI (Science, Technology, Innovation) studies are either rich but small scale (qualitative case studies) or large scale and under-complex – because they generally use only a single dataset like Patstat, Scopus, WoS (Web of Science), OECD STI indicators, etc., and therefore deploying only a few variables – determined by the data available. However, progress in the STI research field (and the social sciences in general) depends in our view on the ability…
The RISIS co-ordinator, Philippe Laredo has put together a series of videos introducing the RISIS programme. For a quick overview, view his introduction, and for more in depth information, take a look at 'Why build RISIS?' and 'RISIS for Researchers'.
In the past decade university rankings have become important tools for policymaking and are increasingly used for marketing purposes. For that reason alone good care of data and statistics underlying these rankings is crucial. Therefore it is essential to obtain more transparency regarding both the definition of the universities and the data collection procedures that are applied in the various rankings. This one-day-course held in Leiden on 28 June, focused on definitions and data collection…
