Home // eKNOW 2016, The Eighth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management // View article
Authors:
Dena Tahvildari
Anne Vissers
Guus Schreiber
Jan Top
Keywords: MIAPE; vocabulary; material and method sections; HPLC; reproducibility; laboratory experiments.
Abstract:
Descriptions of experimental methods in scientific publications are often incomplete or inadequate. In these cases, the experimental work cannot be reproduced or verified due to lack of information. To facilitate the documentation of lab methods, in some domains minimum information guidelines have been developed. If implemented, these guidelines ensure that the information about the method can be easily verified, analysed and clearly interpreted by a wider scientific community. However, there is an evident lack of automated documentation tools to create and edit laboratory reports that follow these guidelines and at the same time do not impose a too rigid framework on the scientist. This paper describes the very first step towards the development of semantically rich but free-text editor for creating descriptions of experimental methods. We created and evaluated the vocabulary for reporting a column chromatography experiment, which is developed using the MIAPE guidelines. Our goal is to check if we can use the MIAPE guidelines in the food chemistry domain.The ultimate use of the vocabulary is in semantically enriched editorial software. An editor should give knowledge-based guidance to the author and semi-automatically add meta-data. The first step in designing such editor is to construct supporting vocabularies and evaluate their use in the domain of interest. Our initial application domain is laboratory of food chemistry.
Pages: 70 to 75
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016
Publication date: April 24, 2016
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4375
ISBN: 978-1-61208-472-5
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016