Geospatial Metadata for Discovery in Scholarly Publishing

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Abstract

Many scientific articles are related to specific regions of the Earth. The connection is often implicit, although geospatial metadata has been shown to have positive effects, such as detecting biases in research coverage or enhancing discoveryof research. Scholarly communication platforms lack an explicit modelling ofgeospatial metadata. In this work, we report a novel approach to integratewell-defined geospatial metadata into Open Journal Systems (OJS). Authorscreate complex geometries to represent the related location(s) or region(s) fortheir submission and define the relevant time period. They are assisted by aninteractive map and a gazetteer to capture high quality coordinates as well asa matching textual description with high usability. The geospatial metadata ispublished within the article pages using semantic tags, integrated in standardised publication metadata, and shown on maps. Thereby, thegeoOJSpluginfacilitates indexing by search engines, can improve accessibility, and providesa foundation for more powerful map-based discovery of research articles acrossjournals. See the Extended Abstract PDF for more details.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Niers, Tom	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Kray)
Nüst, Daniel	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Pebesma)