Alternatives to Author-Centric Knowledge Organization

Learning to Become a Knowledge-Centric Organization

The importance of knowledge to an organization’s competitive performance is widely recognized. A knowledge-centric organization is one within which the creation and management of knowledge are at the heart of its strategic thinking, operations, and activities. Knowledge-centricity can only be achieved if knowledge, and the behaviors and systems associated with its creation and management, are d...

Crowd-sourcing and author submission as alternatives to professional curation

Can we decrease the costs of database curation by crowd-sourcing curation work or by offloading curation to publication authors? This perspective considers the significant experience accumulated by the bioinformatics community with these two alternatives to professional curation in the last 20 years; that experience should be carefully considered when formulating new strategies for biological d...

Enabling Author-Centric Ranking of Web Content

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in the amount of web content, partially due to wide-spread adoption of blogging and micro-blogging platforms that make it easy for ordinary users to quickly create web content. A single user may create content on many different online platforms or social networks. Current web search systems largely rely on link-structure of the web graph in ran...

Acarp: Author-Centric Analysis of Research Papers

Scientific publications are an important kind of user-generated content, which contains not only high-quality content but also structures, e.g. citations. Scientific publication analysis has attracted much attention in both database and data mining research community. In this demonstration, we present a system, named as Acarp, for analyzing research papers in database community. The relationshi...

Creating a Process - Centric Organization