Research & Development
As a science publishing house operating in an era of digital transformation, it is imperative for us to apply best practices to all aspects of our portfolio. We develop and offer relevant content, workflow tools, and services that nurture collaboration, and we do that by supporting innovation through research and development (R&D) via our network of researchers at institutions across the globe. Covering numerous fields and subject areas, we have a significant interest in addressing forward-looking topics. Current investigations include transparency and reproducibility, the incorporation of semantic entities for published metadata, and the development and application of proprietary software.
RESEARCH CONNECTIONS
Open science research
We are collaborating with Pascal Hitzler, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Kansas State University, and Krzysztof Janowicz, director of the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California, in relation to the project "Open Science Data in Semantic Web Research." The team hopes to demonstrate that the open sharing of data underlying publications can be done without significant overhead and will provide significant added value. The approach can then serve as a model for other journal editors who seek a blueprint for adopting similar open science data practices. Dr. Hitzler and Dr. Janowicz are co-Editors-in-Chief of the open access Semantic Web journal.
Metadata research
We are collaborating with Tobias Kuhn from the Department of Computer Science at VU University Amsterdam, who is also the co-Editor-in-Chief of Data Science (DS), and Cristina Bucur, researcher in semantic web and artificial intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on a project relating to linkflow and nanopublications. It highlights the need for semantically-enriched articles to make publishing more transparent and machine-interpretable. The focus is on a unified and semantic publication model based on nanopublications that can make scientific communication more effective and user-friendly.
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