Mirjam Kessler, Aliaksandr Birukou

Linked Data Initiatives at Springer Verlag

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Key facts about Springer

• Leading global scientific publisher, founded in 1842 and providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content via innovative information products and services

• Consolidated turnover in 2012: EUR 976.3 million; in 2011: EUR 875 million

• Some 2,200 English-language journals and more than 8,000 books published every year, in 5 main publishing fields: science, technology, medicine, business, transport

• Springer eBook collection with more than 120,000 titles available at link.springer.com . Springer is THE largest scientific e-book publisher

• SpringerLink, one of the leading Internet science portals, including more than 8.4 million documents (5 Mln journal articles, 3 Mln book chapters, 373 K reference work entries, 34 K Protocols)

•Largest open access portfolio worldwide, with over 350 open access journals. Recently, also Open Access books are included

• 21.6% of all Nobel Prize winners are Springer authors (ALL winners of 2011 NP in medicine, physics, chemistry and economics) are Springer authors and editors

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Today Springer is present in some 25 countries worldwide (7000 employees)

Growing presence in emerging markets

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• Product data for print and electronic books, journals, protocols, etc.• On different levels: article, chapter, journal, book• Bibliographic data, administrative data (production data), prices

• Master data as author information and customer addresses

• It‘s metadata in XML on chapter / book and article / journal level stored in different systems

Þ Structured data but no relationshipsÞ No data enrichment with linkage to or from external data sources

Metadata at Springer: what we have

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Metadata at Springer: what we do with it

• Internal use: Identify and produce products

• Analytics: user statistics, Identify potential customers

• Marketing / Sales: offer your products and make it searchable (ONIX and MARC feeds to third parties and customers; use on digital platforms)

• Linked Data Pilot:

Can we make our data more rich to increase content usability?

Þ Adding conference information to our metadata in a structured way and

Þ Provide conference information as Linked Data

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Why a Linked Data Pilot

• Additional value proposition for conference authors and conference organizers• more readers• more downloads• more citations

• Increase in traffic, submissions, conference attendance, etc.

• Collaboration with research community• Collaboration with library community (library linked data initiatives) and

offering also libraries better data services• Internal planning (where conferences move, etc.)

• ...we don’t know yet

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Linked Open Data Pilot

• Aim: provide data about conference proceedings in structured format

• Conference- and not book-centric<ConferenceInfo>

<ConfSeriesName ID=”semweb”>

International Semantic Web Conference </ConfSeriesName>

<ConfEventAbbreviation>ISWC</ConfEventAbbreviation>

<ConfNumber>12</ConfNumber>

<ConfEventLocation>

<City>Sydney, NSW</City>

<Country>Australia</Country>

</ConfEventLocation>

<ConfEventDateStart>

<Year>2013</Year><Month>10</Month>

<Day>21</Day></ConfEventDateStart>

<ConfEventDateEnd>

<Year>2013</Year><Month>10</Month>

<Day>25</Day></ConfEventDateEnd>

</ConferenceInfo>

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Overview of the process

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Where to link to?

Conference rankings

Publications and authors

Conference services

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Future use

• LOD other conference information

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How this relates to Open Data in Education

• Contributes to transparency in science (Open Science?)

• which peer review process used?

• how many papers each PC member reviewed?

• number of accepted/submitted papers?

• Contributes to research evaluation and certification: conference/university/research group ratings

• Linked up science – adding more relations to Open Data about publications

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Acknowledgements

• Research Group Data and Web Science at University Mannheim

• SpringerLink, Marketing, and Global Production teams at Springer

Volha Bryl Kai Eckert Chris Bizer

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Questions and Feedback

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