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Title: 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.

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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory
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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

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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.
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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.
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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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title = {A PRACTICAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE LARGE-SCALE MODELING OF SCHOLARLY ARTIFACTS AND THEIR USAGE},
author = {RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A. and BOLLEN, JOHAN and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT},
abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2007},
month = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2007}
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