Скачать или смотреть NCDS DataBytes Webinar: Assessing the Impact of Software on Science

In the age of data, the critical components of scientific and industrial research increasingly are digital outputs such as data and software. These products can have significant impacts on future scientific discoveries and business innovation. Yet, they can be difficult to discover and assess because new knowledge is still catalogued in the form of published research papers.

This talk will address Yan’s work with the problem of discovering and assessing the impact of software by identifying referencing patterns and designing hybrid metrics to assess the full impact of software. Unlike current data repository indexing, Yan’s work aims to provide context-driven, full text data analytics for software in order to account for the unsystematic ways in which these products are referenced in scientific literature. Ultimately, Yan’s work seeks to develop a system that will comprehensively capture the impact of digital outputs that include both data and software on knowledge production and innovation.