Enabling Accessible Knowledge

• (c. 1450) Printing press [2D]
• (c. 1989) Web [Hypermedia]

Strictly visual, linear, non-interactive, and anti-social.

Electronic documents imitating paper!

PDF/Word/E-Books are Paper User Interfaces.

.. data-silos, and do not play well with the Web.

Inadequate for Universal Access to research knowledge.

How can we query the atomic parts of research results?

Identify research gaps? Forecast new fields?

Which funding opportunities are applicable?

Fix the UX and maximize value from research output:

Use the Web stack for maximum openness, accessibility and flexibility.

1. URI Ownership
2. Linked Data
3. Knowledge Acquisition
4. User Experience
5. Announce
6. Open Feedback
7. Motivate

Any resource of significance should be given a URI — Axiom 0a: Universality 2, Tim Berners-Lee

Adopt the #LinkedData design principles.

e.g., hypotheses, concepts, arguments, workflows, results, evaluations, provenance, citations.

Human + Machine:

• +1 Discoverability
• +1 Comparability
• +1 Reproducibility
• +1 Reusability

In the spirit of science!

• Offer different layers to view
• Design interactive UIs

+1 Research Communication and Education

e.g: github.com:csarven/linked-research HTML+RDFa + CSS (screen, print LNCS,ACM) + JavaScript + SVG + (WebID+ACL)

The GDP of Canada claimed by the World Bank Linked Dataspace is on the rise despite the market crash in 2008.

For human and machine discovery.

+1 Creating Awareness

For positive and negative research results.

Let everyone participate:

• Digital citizens
• Open (academic) reviews/reviewers
• Machine-generated relations to other research objects

+1 Collective Knowledge