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Dialogic has investigated the feasibility of an Open Knowledge Base (OKB) at the request of the VSNU and the Dutch Taskforce on Responsible Management of Research Information and Data (click here for more information about the taskforce).
The metadata on scientific results such as publications, datasets, software, educational materials, and public-oriented communication, includes critical information on science funded by the government. This information should be freely available without any restrictions. Therefore, the metadata should be easily discoverable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, allowing other users or service providers to create compelling use cases without obstacles.
Our research reveals two core values for an OKB. Firstly, protecting academic independence by opening up the metadata and indicators underlying the assessment of science and becoming less dependent on private companies to provide data and software. Secondly, enhancing and expanding the quality and coverage of available metadata in the Dutch landscape of infrastructures for scientific communication.
Our feasibility study shows that an OKB is both feasible and desirable. One important opportunity we identify for an OKB is the establishment of a feedback loop between institutional databases (CRIS systems) and the OKB. This enables the improvement of metadata coverage and quality in an OKB by integrating, harmonizing, and enriching metadata from multiple sources including participating CRIS systems, open infrastructures (e.g., CrossRef, Orcid, ROD), and research intelligence services. These improvements and enrichments can be fed back to institutional CRIS systems to enhance metadata and reporting at the local institutional level.
The report has been published by the VSNU and can be viewed here.
Interested in learning more about this feasibility study? Contact Max Kemman.