Open research assessment: switching from quantitative to qualitative practices

Abstract

<p>The need to work on the quality of open scientific metadata is no longer up for discussion. Everyone is aware of this, both for data sharing and as part of the Open Science policy. It is also true in terms of the evolution of research evaluation practices. We need to promote new ways of doing research, by proposing alternative models to impact factors and the quantitative approach. Open scientific metadata plays a decisive role here. But here again, we could be stuck with the quantitative approach. We need to go further and work on the link between metadata, in particular around knowledge graphs. Creating links means giving meaning, and in so doing, we are moving towards a qualitative approach to research evaluation practices. My presentation aims to explore this aspect by also considering the role of vocabularies and ontologies used in metadata schemas and in establishing the link between data and metadata.</p&gt