SciKGTeX: A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications

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Authors

  • Christof Bless
  • Ildar Baimuratov
  • Oliver Karras

Research Organisations

External Research Organisations

  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
  • German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publicationJCDL
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages155-164
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)9798350399318
ISBN (print)979-8-3503-9932-5
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2023 - Santa Fe, United States
Duration: 26 Jun 202330 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)1552-5996

Abstract

Scientific knowledge graphs have been proposed as a solution to structure the content of research publications in a machine-actionable way and enable more efficient, computer-assisted work-flows for many research activities. Crowd-sourcing approaches are used frequently to build and maintain such scientific knowledge graphs. To contribute to scientific knowledge graphs, researchers need simple and easy-to-use solutions to generate new knowledge graph elements and establish the practice of semantic representations in scientific communication. In this paper, we present a workflow for authors of scientific documents to specify their contributions with a LATEX package, called SciKGTeX, and upload them to a scientific knowledge graph. The SciKGTeX package allows authors of scientific publications to mark the main contributions of their work directly in LATEX source files. The package embeds marked contributions as metadata into the generated PDF document, from where they can be extracted automatically and imported into a scientific knowledge graph, such as the ORKG. This workflow is simpler and faster than current approaches, which make use of external web interfaces for data entry. Our user evaluation shows that SciKGTeX is easy to use, with a score of 79 out of 100 on the System Usability Scale, as participants of the study needed only 7 minutes on average to annotate the main contributions on a sample abstract of a published paper. Further testing shows that the embedded contributions can be successfully uploaded to ORKG within ten seconds. SciKGTeX simplifies the process of manual semantic annotation of research contributions in scientific articles. Our workflow demonstrates how a scientific knowledge graph can automatically ingest research contributions from document metadata.

Keywords

    FAIR data, LATEX, Scientific Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Annotation

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SciKGTeX: A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. / Bless, Christof; Baimuratov, Ildar; Karras, Oliver.
2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 155-164 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries; Vol. 2023-June).

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Bless, C, Baimuratov, I & Karras, O 2023, SciKGTeX: A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. in 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, vol. 2023-June, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 155-164, 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2023, Santa Fe, United States, 26 Jun 2023. https://doi.org/10.15488/12462, https://doi.org/10.15488/16372, https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00030
Bless, C., Baimuratov, I., & Karras, O. (2023). SciKGTeX: A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. In 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL (pp. 155-164). (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries; Vol. 2023-June). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.15488/12462, https://doi.org/10.15488/16372, https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00030
Bless C, Baimuratov I, Karras O. SciKGTeX: A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. In 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2023. p. 155-164. (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). doi: 10.15488/12462, 10.15488/16372, 10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00030
Bless, Christof ; Baimuratov, Ildar ; Karras, Oliver. / SciKGTeX : A LATEX Package to Semantically Annotate Contributions in Scientific Publications. 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: JCDL. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. pp. 155-164 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).
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