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Subject Knowledge Environment (SKE） :

Development and Application in CAS

Jinxia Huang

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OUTLINE

SKE project Project Deliverables Related work Approach Functionality Applications in CAS

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SKE project

— Funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

— One of a series of projects on Chinese Science Digital Library (CSDL) in National Science Library (NSL)

—2009: research on the key technologies of SKE and system construction; 2010: application

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— Subject Knowledge Environment of CAS, a platform to support the collection, organization and integration on the different types of information, which is used by scientists in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and librarians.

—Software on knowledge Environment, which will be provided to institutions or research groups in CAS who have the needs to develop their own knowledge Environments.

Project Deliverables

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Related work

— Literature Review Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Semantic Web ( on systems and technologies) Research on User behaviors in Virtual Research Environment

— Survey Knowledge Organization System (KOS) Semantic web ( on ontologies ) Websites of some institutes of CAS Social Network Services (SNS) Needs for Science & technology information development

Reference : http://ir.las.ac.cn

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　 SKE overall architecture

Approach

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Knowledge organization system

Questions: how to organize and integrate the different kinds of information? how to develop a KOS model to support SKE?

general resources ontology

subject ontology

Ontology model

Approach

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Ontology Generation :

Subject librarians of NSL Researchers and Graduate students in CAS

Institute LibrariansLibrarians on Collection development of NSL

Librarians on Information Science and Technology of NSL

Needs + Evaluations + Adjustment

Goals Process Results

Integrate the information;Share knowledge

List the important

terms in the research work

Generate the different-level of classes and properties

Confirm two-ontology model

Edit the ontologies

Build the demo system to

evaluate the ontologies

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Subject

News and bulletin

Academic Events

Publications

Research products

Research units

Scientific data

Equipments and service

Projects

People

Resources

Research managements

Job opportunity and students’ recruitment

The classes and relationships in Ske ontologies

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SKE platform Construction

Questions: how to develop SKE system? how to provide the user customization in SKE? how to control the user authorization in different portals?

System Development based on Vitro

Approach

Vitro’ localization: 1) rebuilding the webpage 2) translating into Chinese 3) developing four user roles and the user authorization 4) deveoping new functions …….

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SKE platform Construction

new functions: 1) develop the class trees

2) add the browsing- road map

3) develop the portal customization

4) provide the cross-search into other systems

5) provide the files upload or download in an instance

6) add some reasoning rules

7) add RSS （ Really Simple Syndication ）

Approach

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1) Browse and search Providing the user to browse and search the science & technology information which is shown in the different types, and search them in other systems from SKE.

2) Providing the relationship between different information

SKE Functionality

4) Developing an open platform for the librarians to integrate and organize the information .

3) Providing the academic communities for scientists to communicate their knowledge and share their research productions

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Scene 1: A graduate student wishes to find everything in the topic”evolution” given by his mentor.

Search

Portal

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1) Browse and search Providing the user to browse and search the science & technology information which is shown in the different types, and browse them in other systems from SKE.

2) Providing ways to find the related information or different kinds of information

SKE Functionality

4) Providing an open platform for the librarians to integrate and organize the information .

3) Providing the academic communities for scientists to communicate their knowledge and share their research productions

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Scene 2: A scientist hopes to know more about another scientist “Yaping Zhang” to whom he only knows the name.

Object property

Add reasoning rules

People’s linking

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1) Browse and search Providing the user to browse and search the science & technology information which is shown in the different types, and browse them in other systems from SKE.

2) Providing the relationship between different information.

4) Developing an open platform for the librarians to integrate and organize the information

3) Providing the academic communities for scientists to communicate their knowledge and share their research productions

SKE Functionality

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Scene 3: A project team whose members come from seven research organizations hopes to find a tool to support communication, knowledge management and dissemination.

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1) Browse and search Providing the user to browse and search the science & technology information which is shown in the different types, and browse them in other systems from SKE.

2) Providing the relationship between different information.

4) Developing an open platform for the librarians to integrate and organize the information.

3) Providing the academic communities for scientists to communicate their knowledge and share their research productions.

SKE Functionality

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Scene 4: In order to promote the research work and provide library service, NSL subject librarian Wang wants to help the research group on ”plant evolution” to develop a knowledge management and sharing environment together.

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Application

* Subject Knowledge Environment of CAS (http://ske.las.ac.cn)

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Application

* Southwest Biodiversity Knowledge Environment (http://sbke.las.ac.cn) :

* Biomedical and Health Knowledge Environment （ http://health.las.ac.cn） : Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS: Knowledge management of a institute

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Application

* Biomedical and Health Knowledge Environment （ http://health.las.ac.cn） : Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS

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Further Work

Problems unsolved now will be the goals of future work: 1. Ontology update and management?

2. Data ingest?

3. How to make relationships with other systems or services in the library?

4. Sustainable Development? The future of SKE?

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Thank you!

And, thanks to Members in SKE project team!

Prof. Wen Song

Yi Liu Jinxia HuangRui Yang Zhen LiuYijie Tang Li JingZijian Zhou Shinan Zhang