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Academic articles and images from Open Access journals to be harvested for targeted search and replication, and mined by content
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has approved the “Replication of Open Access images” project (Nachnutzung von Open-Access-Abbildungen, NOA) initiated by Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HsH) and the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The aim of the project, which has received 270,000 Euro in funding for a period of three years, is to harvest and automatically assess millions of articles and images from Open Access journals focusing on science and technology. What makes the project so special is that this all takes place on platforms linked to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia: article texts are saved on Wikisource, images on Wikimedia Commons, and metadata in Wikidata. “The NOA project is the first project to be funded by the DFG that is interwoven so closely with the Wikipedia infrastructure and, in particular, the new collaborative database Wikidata,” stated Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Project Manager.
“This project enables us to gradually achieve the vision of being able to work with Open Access material from academia on a common virtual workbench, so to speak,” explained Lambert Heller. Heller is the Head of TIB’s Open Science Lab, where the idea for the project came about. He considered the framework conditions for the project to be ideal: “Wikipedia sister projects are perfectly suited to our project – they have 15 years’ experience in the mass collaborative processing of knowledge media; findings can be incorporated immediately; and they are permanently accessible to a very large target group.”
Better access to freely available scientific images
In the short term, the NOA project, involving HsH and TIB, will result in Wikipedia authors being able to have freely replicable images from academic literature recommended to them through machine intelligence, enabling them to illustrate a Wikipedia article using highly topical, fitting images. For example, the author of a German or English Wikipedia article on “solar batteries” would be recommended the schematic drawing of a modern solar battery. This option will make it easier for users throughout the world to gain access to academic material using web search engines. For digitally oriented scientific libraries such as TIB, facilitating such options will become an increasingly important task.
Collaboration between TIB’s Open Science Lab and Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts will be strengthened even further by the project’s approval. Dr. Ina Blümel, Deputy Head of OSL, has already held an administrative professorship there on the Information Management programme for two years, involving subjects such as eScience and Semantic Web.
https://tib.eu - More information about TIB
https://www.tib.eu/de/forschung-entwicklung/open-science/ - More information about TIB's Open Science Lab
http://www.hs-hannover.de/ - More information about HsH
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