Linked Research

Objective: to enable researchers (in Web Science for example), to share and reuse research knowledge by employing the native Web technology stack. This was practically a solved problem 25 years ago, but here we are.

Linked Research is set out to socially and technically enable researchers to take full control, ownership, and responsibility of their own knowledge, and have their contributions accessible to the society at maximum capacity, by dismantling the use of archaic and artificial barriers.

This is to work towards a solution where researchers can publish and consume research documents that are both human and machine-friendly.

See also a proposed Acid Test aimed at this mission:

Dive into Linked Research

Linked Research's technical approach for MVP:

• A single HTML5 Polyglot document. It is used by different CSS - academic paper layouts e.g., ACM, LNCS, W3C-REC (fun), or even as a slideshow! This is not a yet-another-standard or format! It is POSH (plain ol' semantic HTML) and RDF, right off W3C specs.
• No server required. Works on local machine.
• No installation.
• No account creation. This is not a for-profit third-party service or software.
• No out of band tooling required. Your Web browser is the only requirement.
• Documents are human and machine-friendly (RDF, microformats) i.e., they can be used on screen devices as well as be printed.
• Using Apache License and CC0, and compatibilies where necessary.

The example documents in this repository were originally published at:

• http://csarven.ca/enabling-accessible-knowledge
• http://csarven.ca/sense-of-lsd-analysis
• http://csarven.ca/linked-statistical-data-analysis
• http://csarven.ca/linked-sdmx-data
• http://csarven.ca/call-for-linked-research
• http://csarven.ca/statistical-linked-dataspaces

This repository is published and accessible from http://linked-research.270a.info/ , e.g:

• Enabling Accessible Knowledge (i.e., http://linked-research.270a.info/{filename})
• ACM SIG Proceedings Paper
• LNCS Author Guidelines

You are invited to send your Linked Research documents or their URL to be included here as an example!

Structure and Semantics

This repository contains a single HTML+RDFa template, and stylesheets which follows the LNCS, ACM style guidelines. See the examples. The markup structure is simple and flexible.

Presentation

The CSS are primarily tested using the Gecko browser engine e.g., Firefox, as it provides a more comprehensive and consistent CSS screen and print media support. The views are also tested for in other engines e.g., WebKit, and Trident. The single HTML is flexible such that it can presented in different ways - like a CSS Zen Garden - using the browser or document options .As browser engines improve their CSS implementations, so do these stylesheets.

Interaction

• In browser editing without having to hand-code HTML or RDF syntaxes - partial support at the moment - and, sorting sections through table of contents.
• Embed data in HTML: Turtle and JSON-LD.
• Visible identifiers for sections and other important enough declared concepts. Fosters sharing and cross-linking of concepts, arguments, workflows etc.
• Document metadata for authors.
• Exporting to HTML. A (La)TeX export is planned.
• Local Storage (in the browser) for offline editing. Auto-save is available.
• View switching e.g., ACM, LNCS, W3C-REC, Slideshow, Native.
• Other stuff.. stay tuned! git clone https://github.com/csarven/linked-research.git :)

Dependencies

Linked Research is built with the progressive enhancement strategy. Therefore, the dependencies are only used for JavaScript enhancements. If you do not want them, they can be removed or turned-off without effecting core HTML or CSS.

• jQuery Core (MIT License)
• html5sortable (MIT License)
• Shower (MIT License)

License

Apache License, Version 2.0