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Rexplore

Semantic Web and Knowledge Services  

Exploring Research Data

The main purpose of Rexplore is to provide a new tool for supporting users in exploring information about research. In particular the tool provides novel visualization and navigation mechanisms, based on a variety of analytical functionalities (which in turn employ a variety of statistical, linguistic and knowledge-based methods), to facilitate an understanding of the dynamics of research areas (e.g., what are the main trends, what new topics are emerging, what significant research 'shifts' are happening, how authors can be ranked, compared and grouped together according to a variety of ranking and similarity criteria, how can fine-grained research topics be automatically identified and structured according to hierarchical and similarity relations, etc..). Hence Rexplore has two main objectives: From a research perspective, it aims to provide a platform for testing some new visual analytics and knowledge-based methods and comparing them to other existing solutions. From a user point of view it aims to provide a new tool to allow people to explore research data.

Participant: Francesco Osborne



URL: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/rexplore