Natasha Simons, Arve Solland, Jan Hettenhausen
Book chapter in: Linked Data and User Interaction
IFLA publication, deGruyter 2015
Abstract: Universities are operating in a
knowledge environment characterised by competition, collaboration, a
diversification of research outputs and rapid technological change. Thus the
use of linked data is rapidly gaining momentum, typically for educational
resources with research as a subset of this content. The Griffith Research Hub is focused
specifically on exposing linked data for research. It provides a publicly
accessible, single comprehensive view of Griffith University’s research output
and activities, including research publications, projects, datasets, centres,
researchers and their collaborators. The Hub serves an ambitiously wide
audience including higher degree research students, researchers, industry and
the media. Built in-house on open source semantic web technologies, the Hub
draws data automatically from multiple enterprise systems and includes an edit
interface for manual correction and enrichment of data. The Hub is the product
of a partnership between Griffith University and the Australian National Data
Service. Benefits of the Hub
include powerful yet simple search and browse tools, generation of substantial
web traffic, linked data that allows users to seamlessly discover related
information in other services and databases including at the National Library
of Australia, visualisation features, and the development of a shared ontology
to describe research activities.
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