This presentation was given at MTSR 2013 - 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Thessaloniki, and is related the publication of the same title. Abstract of the publication: This paper highlights how Semantic Web technologies facilitate new socio-technical interactions between researchers and libraries focussing research data in a Virtual Research Environment. Concerning data practices in the fields of social sciences and humanities, the worlds of researchers and librarians have so far been separate. The increased digitization of research data and the ubiquitous use of Web technologies change this situation and offer new capacities for interaction. This is realized as a semantically enhanced Virtual Research Environment, which offers the possibility to align the previously disparate data life-cycles in research and in libraries covering a variety of inter-activities from importing research data via enriching research data and cleansing to exporting and sharing to allow for reuse. Currently, collaborative qualitative and quantitative analyses of a large digital corpus of educational lexica are carried out using this semantic and wiki-based research environment. The publication is available at http://www.aifb.kit.edu/images/a/ac/MTSR2013_publication_-_Basil_Ell%3B_Christoph_Schindler%3B_Marc_Rittberger.pdf

1. KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and
National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
1 Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
2 German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
www.kit.edu
Semantically Enhanced Interactions between
Heterogeneous Data Life-Cycles
Analyzing Educational Lexica in a Virtual Research Environment
Basil Ell1, Christoph Schindler2, Marc Rittberger2
7th Metadata and Semantics Research
Conference 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece

2. Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
2 2012-11-21
Agenda
Background: VRE SMW-CorA
Activities & Interactions
Importing Research Data
Enriching Research Data
Data Cleansing
Exploring and Analyzing
Export and Sharing
Conclusions & Outlook
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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BACKGROUND
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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Background: VRE SMW-CorA
Main Objectives:
Development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
Exemplary realization in the research field History of Education
Enhancing quantitative + qualitative analysis
Infrastructural distribution into other disciplinary contexts
Technological Platform:
MediaWiki (MW) + extension Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)
Project:
„Semantic MediaWiki for Collaborative Corpora Analysis“ (SMW-CorA)
German Research Foundation (DFG) Funding: 2 + 1years
Start 01.01.2011
2 exemplary realizations (educ. lexica + pupil's magazine) with 2 full-time users
carrying out their Ph.D. project within the VRE
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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ACTIVITIES & INTERACTIONS
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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Importing Research Data
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
FOAF
SKOS
DCBIBO
PRISM
VRE
Scripta Paedagogica Online
25 lexica
22.000 articles
http://bbf.dipf.de/retro-digit0.htm/digitale-bbf/scripta-paedagogica-online
VREDL
+ manual import of
62 undigitized lexica
Life-Cycles & Interactions

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Enriching Research Data
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
* Semantically annotate parts of images
* Create data about entities
* Link entities
* Open coding
Queryable network
Linked Open Data
http://linkeddata.org/static/images/lod-datasets_2009-07-
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VRESW
Life-Cycles & Interactions

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Data Cleansing
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
Imported data may contain errors
Inform the provider & other consumers and
provide patches
VREDL
Patch Ontology?
Life-Cycles & Interactions

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Exploring and Analyzing
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
Top 15 careers of women

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Export and Sharing
Selectively export content using imported
vocabularies:
Corrected data
Annotations / Semantic network
Aggregated data
Evidence data related to research hypothesis
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
VRESW
Life-Cycles & Interactions

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CONCLUSIONS & OUTLOOK
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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Conclusions
Activities:
Importing Research Data
Enriching Research Data
Data Cleansing
Exploring and Analyzing
Export and Sharing
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
VREDL
VRE
VREDL VRESW
Life-Cycles & Interactions:
SW

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Outlook
Support more resource types besides lexica and
images:
Video, audio, interview transcripts
Vision:
future ecologies of small to large research projects and
data providers
data flows between the participants
leads to enriched and improved data
providing benefits in a multitude of collaborations
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles

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Questions?
Basil Ell: Semantically Enhanced Interactions between Heterogeneous
Data Life-Cycles
FOAF
SKOS
DC
BIBO
PRISM
VRE