The idea: Enhancing scientific communication
by semantic web application
⁃ relate relevant objects for instance about work, actors and output dealing with science
⁃ communicate and present these aggregated objects for various target groups
⁃ enhance this communication by describing / annotating these relations
Maarten van Bentum (University of Twente, Library and Archive)
Dennis Vierkant (University of Twente, ICT Service Centre)
Jan Gutteling (University of Twente, Centre for Conflict, Risk and Safety Perception)
ESCAPE: A Generic Tool for Enhanced Scientific Communication
ESCAPE
project
The use case: iCRiSP
The centre for Conflict, Risk and Safety Perception iCRiSP (University of Twente) focuses on the implementation of knowledge from social
and behavioural sciences regarding issues of conflict, risk and safety in public and private sectors of society.
One of the functions of iCRiSP is the valorisation (the added value) of knowledge and expertise in the field of risk and safety. Through the
iCRiSP website digital objects about work, actors and output related to this issue are aggregated, described and presented, as well as the
relations between these objects.
To realize this iCRiSP uses the ESCAPE tool.
The tool: ESCAPE
ESCAPE is a tool in which users can aggregate digital objects stored at any location and describe, annotate, comment and tag the relations between
these objects. Key features are:
⁃ Searching and viewing existing aggregations by browsing through the related objects using a textual or clickable graph representation
⁃ Making and editing new aggregations in an easy manner, requiring little technical knowledge
⁃ Adding comments and tags to a particular aggregation
The technology: RDF / OAI ORE
In the ESCAPE tool relations are modelled and
described using RDF and OWL. Aggregations of related digital objects are stored as OAI ORE Resource Maps in a Fedora repository and indexed in a triplestore.
Interoperability is achieved by using standards such as FOAF, DCMI TERMS, SKOS, SWAN and OAI ORE.
Through this interoperability it would be possible to join information from systems like ESCAPE in portals to offer a broader view on relations in scientific communication, similar to what portals like Scientific Commons offer for publication repositories world wide.
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"Jan Gutteling" "Water safety"
"Flood preparedness" "PROmO" "Institute for Behavioral Research" foaf:name dcterms:title dcterms:title foaf:name foaf:name escape-annotations:RelationAnnotation escape-annotations:object escape-annotations:subject escape-annotations:predicate "Discusses ..." dcterms:description
has use case
uses technology
Work Research Application in production, technology development, policy development Publicity, media Output Scientific publications Policies Guidelines Designs DataScientific news items Reviews, comments Actors Researchers Research organizations Technicians Companies Policy makers Journalists
Semantic
Web
inspired
has result
More information: http://escape.utwente.nl/or2010
View on Water Safety Dr. Jan M. Gutteling Made by Book Type Others Made by Dr. Aad Correlje Made by
Dr. Herman van der Most
Made by
Cooperation between the Universities of
Twente and Delft, ITC, Deltares, and
HKV lijn in water Made by
The value of risk perception research for managers Related to Don't panic! Risk communication in the eyes of a civillian Related to The role of technical
information in risk communication
Related to Communication with
civilians about floods
