A PRACTICAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE LARGE-SCALE MODELING OF SCHOLARLY ARTIFACTS AND THEIR USAGE
Abstract
The large-scale analysis of scholarly artifact usage is constrained primarily by current practices in usage data archiving, privacy issues concerned with the dissemination of usage data, and the lack of a practical ontology for modeling the usage domain. As a remedy to the third constraint, this article presents a scholarly ontology that was engineered to represent those classes for which large-scale bibliographic and usage data exists, supports usage research, and whose instantiation is scalable to the order of 50 million articles along with their associated artifacts (e.g. authors and journals) and an accompanying 1 billion usage events. The real world instantiation of the presented abstract ontology is a semantic network model of the scholarly community which lends the scholarly process to statistical analysis and computational support. They present the ontology, discuss its instantiation, and provide some example inference rules for calculating various scholarly artifact metrics.
- Authors:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 985895
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-07-0665
TRN: US201017%%73
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IEEE/ACM JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES ; 200706 ; VANCOUVER
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99; METRICS; SIMULATION; COMPUTERS
Citation Formats
RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A., BOLLEN, JOHAN, and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. A PRACTICAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE LARGE-SCALE MODELING OF SCHOLARLY ARTIFACTS AND THEIR USAGE. United States: N. p., 2007.
Web.
RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A., BOLLEN, JOHAN, & VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. A PRACTICAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE LARGE-SCALE MODELING OF SCHOLARLY ARTIFACTS AND THEIR USAGE. United States.
RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A., BOLLEN, JOHAN, and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. Tue .
"A PRACTICAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE LARGE-SCALE MODELING OF SCHOLARLY ARTIFACTS AND THEIR USAGE". United States.
doi:. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/985895.
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