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Towards a Cloud-Based Service for Maintaining and Analyzing Data About Scientific Events
We propose the new cloud-based service OpenResearch for managing and
analyzing data about scientific events such as conferences and workshops in a
persistent and reliable way. This includes data about scientific articles,
participants, acceptance rates, submission numbers, impact values as well as
organizational details such as program committees, chairs, fees and sponsors.
OpenResearch is a centralized repository for scientific events and supports
researchers in collecting, organizing, sharing and disseminating information
about scientific events in a structured way. An additional feature currently
under development is the possibility to archive web pages along with the
extracted semantic data in order to lift the burden of maintaining new and old
conference web sites from public research institutions. However, the main
advantage is that this cloud-based repository enables a comprehensive analysis
of conference data. Based on extracted semantic data, it is possible to
determine quality estimations, scientific communities, research trends as well
the development of acceptance rates, fees, and number of participants in a
continuous way complemented by projections into the future. Furthermore, data
about research articles can be systematically explored using a content-based
analysis as well as citation linkage. All data maintained in this
crowd-sourcing platform is made freely available through an open SPARQL
endpoint, which allows for analytical queries in a flexible and user-defined
way.Comment: A completed version of this paper had been accepted in SAVE-SD
workshop 2017 at WWW conferenc