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Scientific Publication
Retrieval in Linked Data
Lim Ying Sean1, Arun Anand Sadanandan1, Dickson Lukose1 and
Klaus Tochtermann2
1 MIMOS Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
2 Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), Kiel, Germany

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Overview
• Introduction
• Linked Datasets
• Prototype Implementation
• Future Work
• Conclusion

3.
Introduction
• Linked Data allows libraries to create and deliver library
data that is sharable, extensible and easily re-usable.
• Through rich linkages with complementary data from
trusted sources, libraries can increase the value of their
library data beyond the sum of their sources taken
individually.

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Introduction
• Some examples of Linked Data available.
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Introduction
• Our goal is to identify and retrieve related
scientific publications from different Linked
Datasets published, from a single user interface.
• Scientific publications in Linked Data consist of 3
elements:
– Metadata
– Thesauri
– Name authority file

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Linked Datasets
• Agrovoc
• OpenAgris
• Standard Thesaurus Wirtschaft (STW) - a thesaurus for
economics.
• EconStor - an open access server for free publication of academic
literature in economics.

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Subset of OpenAGRIS Data Model
FOAF Vocabulary
Metadata
Thesaurus

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Prototype Implementation
How does our prototype work?
(OpenAgris)
(EconStor)
(STW)

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Prototype Screenshot

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Prototype Screenshot
OpenAgris EconStor

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Prototype Screenshot

12.
Future Work
• In order to improve the quality of retrieved
publications, there are some future
research works are required:
– Measure the relevancy of the related
publications.
– Enhance user experience when searching for
related publications.

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Conclusion
• We have illustrated our work in consuming linked
datasets in the area of publications, and in particular we
described the process followed to retrieve related
publications from different linked datasets.
• The approach we adopted depends on thesaurus
alignment to retrieve related publications.

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Pseudocode 1
Input: User input query
Output: List of publication from local dataset
Procedure:
1. Identify concepts from user query, Cn={C1,C2,….,Cn};
2. Initialize the current concept pointer i;
3. Initialize an array of concepts Wn = {};
4. while (i<n) do
5. if Ci has skos:narrower to another concept, S then
6. load concept S into the array, Wn= {S1};
7. else
8. load concept Ci into the array, Wn = {S1,Ci…..};
9. end if
10. Increase the current concept pointer i;
11. end while
12. Issues a SPARQL to local dataset to identify publications that consist of
concept Wn.

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Pseudocode 2
Input: List of concept
Output: List of publication from Linked Data
Procedure:
1. Receive an array of concept An={C1,C2,…Cn};
2. Initialize a 2 dimensions array S[src][j];
3. Initialize the current concept pointer i;
4. while (i<n) do
5. if Ci has skos:exactMatch to another concept, SCONCEPT then
6. Identify the source for SCONCEPT, src;
7. S[src][j] SCONCEPT;
8. end if
9. Increase the current concept pointer i;
10. end while
11. Issues a SPARQL to Linked Data S[src] to identify publication that consist of
concept Sn, Sn∈ S[src][j].