TY - GEN

T1 - SWARM-SLR

T2 - 28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2024

AU - Wittenborg, Tim

AU - Karras, Oliver

AU - Auer, Sören

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

PY - 2024/9/26

Y1 - 2024/9/26

N2 - Authoring survey or review articles still requires significant tedious manual effort, despite many advancements in research knowledge management having the potential to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and reuse. However, these advancements bring forth an increasing number of approaches, tools, and systems, which often cover only specific stages and lack a comprehensive workflow utilizing their task-specific strengths. We propose the Streamlined Workflow Automation for Machine-actionable Systematic Literature Reviews (SWARM-SLR) to crowdsource the improvement of SLR efficiency while maintaining scientific integrity in a state-of-the-art knowledge discovery and distribution process. The workflow aims to domain-independently support researchers in collaboratively and sustainably managing the rising scholarly knowledge corpus. By synthesizing guidelines from the literature, we have composed a set of 65 requirements, spanning from planning to reporting a review. Existing tools were assessed against these requirements and synthesized into the SWARM-SLR workflow prototype, a ready-for-operation software support tool. The SWARM-SLR was evaluated via two online surveys, which largely confirmed the validity of the 65 requirements and situated 11 tools to the different life-cycle stages. The SWARM-SLR workflow was similarly evaluated and found to be supporting almost the entire span of an SLR, excelling specifically in search and retrieval, information extraction, knowledge synthesis, and distribution. Our SWARM-SLR requirements and workflow support tool streamlines the SLR support for researchers, allowing sustainable collaboration by linking individual efficiency improvements to crowdsourced knowledge management. If these efforts are continued, we expect the increasing number of tools to be manageable and usable inside fully structured, (semi-)automated literature review workflows.

AB - Authoring survey or review articles still requires significant tedious manual effort, despite many advancements in research knowledge management having the potential to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and reuse. However, these advancements bring forth an increasing number of approaches, tools, and systems, which often cover only specific stages and lack a comprehensive workflow utilizing their task-specific strengths. We propose the Streamlined Workflow Automation for Machine-actionable Systematic Literature Reviews (SWARM-SLR) to crowdsource the improvement of SLR efficiency while maintaining scientific integrity in a state-of-the-art knowledge discovery and distribution process. The workflow aims to domain-independently support researchers in collaboratively and sustainably managing the rising scholarly knowledge corpus. By synthesizing guidelines from the literature, we have composed a set of 65 requirements, spanning from planning to reporting a review. Existing tools were assessed against these requirements and synthesized into the SWARM-SLR workflow prototype, a ready-for-operation software support tool. The SWARM-SLR was evaluated via two online surveys, which largely confirmed the validity of the 65 requirements and situated 11 tools to the different life-cycle stages. The SWARM-SLR workflow was similarly evaluated and found to be supporting almost the entire span of an SLR, excelling specifically in search and retrieval, information extraction, knowledge synthesis, and distribution. Our SWARM-SLR requirements and workflow support tool streamlines the SLR support for researchers, allowing sustainable collaboration by linking individual efficiency improvements to crowdsourced knowledge management. If these efforts are continued, we expect the increasing number of tools to be manageable and usable inside fully structured, (semi-)automated literature review workflows.

KW - Crowdsourcing

KW - Requirement

KW - Software Tool

KW - Systematic Literature Review

KW - Workflow Automation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85206095235&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-72437-4_2

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-72437-4_2

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85206095235

SN - 9783031724367

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 20

EP - 40

BT - Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

A2 - Antonacopoulos, Apostolos

A2 - Hinze, Annika

A2 - Vanderschantz, Nicholas

A2 - Piwowarski, Benjamin

A2 - Coustaty, Mickaël

A2 - Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria

A2 - Gelati, Francesco

PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Y2 - 24 September 2024 through 27 September 2024

ER -