The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology

Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University are partnering to...

Computer Science Ontology

The Computer Science Ontology is a large-scale ontology of research areas that was automatically generated...

28 Nov 2018: Dissertation submitted

Today it was the day that every PhD student waits for: thesis submission day...

Are citation networks really acyclic?

Simple answer: no. However, before getting into a more detailed answer, allow me to briefly...

Springer Nature Video of Berlin's Hack Day

Last April, with my team, we attended the Springer Nature HackDay in Berlin (here is...

Invited Talk – Early detection of Research Topics

On 2nd of August 2018, I have been invited by Boris Veytsman, Principal Research Scientist at Chan...

Invited Talk – AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics

On 30th Jul 2018, I have been invited from Dasha Herrmannova, former PhD student at...

Classifying Research Papers with the Computer Science Ontology

The CSO Classifier is an application for automatically classifying academic papers according to the rich...

KMi Lab Photo 2018

After our last town meeting (with all the members of the KMi), we took a...

The Computer Science Ontology: A Large-Scale Taxonomy of Research Areas

Ontologies of research areas are important tools for characterising, exploring, and analysing the research landscape...

Springer Nature Hack Day – Berlin

On 26-27 April 2018, Francesco Osborne and I attended the third edition of the Springer...

Supporting Editorial Activities at Springer Nature

The project aims at fostering Springer Nature editorial activities by supporting them with a variety...

AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics

“AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics” is a paper submitted to the ACM/IEEE Joint...

CityLABS Project

CityLabs is a collaborative project that is grant funded by ERDF. The Open University, ZTE...

Computer Science Ontology Portal (or simply CSO Portal)

The Computer Science Ontology Portal (also referred to simply as CSO Portal) is a web...

Springer Nature video

Couple of months ago, with my team, we attended the Springer Nature HackDay (here is...

SpringerNature Hackday – London

On the 29th November 2017, myself with two KMi colleagues (Andrea Mannocci and Thiviyan Thanapalasingam)...

Smart Book Recommender

The Smart Book Recommender (SBR) is a semantic application designed to support the Springer Nature editorial team...

2100 AI: Reflections on the mechanisation of scientific discovery

“2100 AI: Reflections on the mechanisation of scientific discovery” is a paper submitted to the...

Supporting Springer Nature Editors by means of Semantic Technologies

“Supporting Springer Nature Editors by means of Semantic Technologies” is a research paper accepted to...

Smart Book Recommender: A Semantic Recommendation Engine for Editorial Products

“Smart Book Recommender: A Semantic Recommendation Engine for Editorial Products” is a poster paper that will...

Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction of Cathy O'Neil

Everyday activities are more and more shifting to a digital environment. Digital gadgets such as...

Early Detection of Research Trends

Being able to rapidly recognise new research trends is strategic for many stakeholders, including universities...

3MT – Early detection of research trends

On 16th May 2017, the STEM Faculty of my university organised a 3 Minutes Thesis...

How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas

“How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas” is...

Export Graph in R via JSON

This post presents an easy solution for exporting and importing a graph object of igraph...

BigDat2017: certificate of attendance

I have recently been attending in Bari (IT) a winter school about Big Data: BigDat2017...

BigDat2017: a review

This week I have been attending the 3rd edition of the Big Data winter school:...

Department Research Seminar: Early Detection of Research Topics

On the 8th February I delivered a seminar to my department (KMi @ OU) in...

Smart Topic Miner

Smart Topic Miner (STM) is a web application which uses Semantic Web technologies to classify...