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Web Science Studies into Semantic Web Service-Based Research Environments

Authors:
Mark Wilkinson

Keywords: SADI, SHARE, Semantic Web Services, Workflow Orchestration, Reproducibility, Transparency, Personalized Web

Abstract:
The emergent domain of Web Science has a number of as-yet unrealized goals. Among these are: to facilitate scientific discourse by supporting the explicit comparison and evaluation of hypotheses; to simplify in silico experiments by providing an ecosystem of expert analytical strategies that can be automatically assembled; to enhance scientific rigor by reducing bias, and improving reproducibility; and to integrate the knowledge gained from the experiment back into the Web. SHARE is a novel orchestration system that automatically chains-together Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration (SADI)–style Semantic Web Services. During development of SHARE, we noted that many requirements of such an end-to-end Web Science research environment were being realized. These include formally-defined, machine-readable, Web-embedded research hypotheses; an explicit, transparent, rigorous, and reproducible research methodology utilizing the most up-to-date data and expert-knowledge from the community; immediate dissemination and re-use of the resulting data and knowledge; and enhanced support for peer-review. This manuscript describes how SHARE is now being tested as a prototype Web Science framework.

Pages: 71 to 74

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-270-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013