mining and mapping the research landscape

Simon Price - IT Services R&D / ILRTPeter Flach - Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Mining and Mapping the Research Landscape

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ExaMiner

• Aim: Improve visibility of University of Bristol's research within the research community, the media, prospective students, and government.

• ExaMiner prototype:• Builds on SubSift (a JISC Rapid Innovations project)

• Funded by and reporting to University Research Committee (URC)

• Steered by Exabyte Group in Dept. Computer Science

ExaMiner demonstrations3

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SubSift

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SubSiftSubSift is a prototype application to support academic peer review.

SubSift matches submitted conference/journal papers to potential peer reviewers based on similarity to published works.

Website:http://subsift.ilrt.bris.ac.uk

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SubSift Tools

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SubSift

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SubSift

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SubSift System Archicture

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SubSift – canonical workflow

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SubSift REST API

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Profiles

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Matches

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SubSift has been used for...15

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ExaMiner

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ExaMiner demos

Demo 1 - Find a researcher (workflow)17

Demo 2 - Find similar research18

Demo 3 - Find a researcher (workflow)19

Demo 4 - Profile email recipients20

And finally…

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Summary• ExaMiner prototype:

• SubSift – provides back-end processing via REST web services

• ExaMiner demos – allowed us to explore requirements for our aim

• Informing (ongoing) redesign of corporate researcher homepages

• Future work:• Move away from fixed (text-centric) model

• Scale up to work at whole institution scale

• ... and between institutions

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