Call for Papers: 1st Sci-K International Workshop, deadline 25th January 2021

Call for Papers: 1st Sci-K International Workshop, deadline 25th January 2021

Sci-K – the 1st International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment in conjunction with The Web Conference (WWW) will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in April 19-23, 2021.

The call for papers has been published with a submission deadline of January 25, 2021.

Sci-K is calling for high-quality submissions around the three main themes of research related to scientific knowledge: representation, discoverability, and assessment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

a) Representation

• Data models for the description of scholarly data and their relationships.
• Description and use of provenance information of scientific data.
• Integration and interoperability models of different data sources.

b) Discoverability

• Methods for extracting metadata, entities and relationships from scientific data.
• Methods for the (semi-)automatic annotation and enhancement of scientific data.
• Methods and interfaces for the exploration, retrieval, and visualisation of scholarly data.

c) Assessment

• Novel methods, indicators, and metrics for quality and impact assessment of scientific publications, datasets, software, and other relevant entities based on scholarly data.
• Uses of scientific knowledge graphs and citation networks for the facilitation of research assessment.
• Studies regarding the characteristics or the evolution of scientific impact or merit.

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