Semantic Representation of Physics Research Data

Author: A. Say, S. Fathalla, S. Vahdati, J. Lehmann, S. Auer
Journal: IC3K
Booktitle: International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K)
Year: 2020

Citation information

A. Say, S. Fathalla, S. Vahdati, J. Lehmann, S. Auer:
Semantic Representation of Physics Research Data.
International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K),
IC3K,
2020,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344388298_Semantic_Representation_of_Physics_Research_Data

Improvements in web technologies and artificial intelligence enable novel, more data-driven research practices for scientists. However, scientific knowledge generated from data-intensive research practices is disseminated with unstructured formats, thus hindering the scholarly communication in various respects. The traditional document-based representation of scholarly information hampers the reusability of research contributions. To address this concern, we developed the Physics Ontology (PhySci) to represent physics-related scholarly data in a machine-interpretable format. PhySci facilitates knowledge exploration, comparison, and organization of such data by representing it as knowledge graphs. It establishes a unique conceptualization to increase the visibility and accessibility to the digital content of physics publications. We present the iterative design principles by outlining a methodology for its development and applying three different evaluation approaches: data-driven and criteria-based evaluation, as well as ontology testing.