Science Networking: Role of Online Encyclopaedias (2024)

Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology: Objectives and Methodology

Research into the Croatian technology heritage has been limited so far, and focused mainly on the biographies of the Croatian-born inventors and scientists (eg. Nikola Tesla, Roger Joseph Boscovich), resulting in the inadequate representation of technology in the educational system and public perception. In light of these circumstances, in 2014 the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicogaphy initiated the project for the online Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology, which is carried out in collaboration with all the relevant institutions and experts within the field. This paper reports on the objectives and methodology of the project. By describing historical development in addition to the current state of technology in Croatia, the main purpose of this open access Encyclopaedia is to comprehensively summarise the field's knowledge. Besides its contribution to understanding the role of technology in a social and cultural context, it will serve as a platform for knowledge networking and sharing, thus facilitating research into the Croatian history of technology. Furthermore, this paper will discuss the innovative role of the Encyclopaedia. Due to the importance of the technological artefacts in research and education, the traditional textual encyclopaedic content will be upgraded using available digital data about the artefacts accessible to the public, thus creating a virtual museum of technology. To conclude, we will explain how networking of information from various sources and encyclopaedically organised knowledge could contribute to the development of the history of technology, as well as to the revalorisation and the sustainability of the technology heritage.

Towards a New Concept of Open Access Online Encyclopaedia : A Case Study from Croatia The Role of Encyclopaedias Today 1

ELPUB 2020 24rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 2020

Professionally edited open access online encyclopaedias enable a systemic and reliable orientation within the ever-increasing amount of data and information on the Internet. Providing access to scientifically verified information, they represent an important part of the research and didactic infrastructure. This paper demonstrates the activities of Croatia’s Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography aimed at exploring the new encyclopaedic concept in the digital age. The Institute’s digital transformation is shown, which involves the digitisation and online publishing of archival editions, publishing of the permanently updated online general encyclopaedia, and the transformation of specialised encyclopedias to the encyclopaedic portals. Encyclopaedic portals could represent a new concept of encyclopaedias in the digital realm by serving as platforms for data networking and sharing, a sort of ‘junction points’ that connect diverse digital content on a specific topic. Institute’s publicly available repository of encyclopaedic knowledge enables the linking to the digital data and collections of other research and cultural institutions; therefore the collaborative projects aimed at reinforcing digital research and cultural infrastructure will be described. Thanks to the properties of the digital media and increasing connectivity, a closer collaboration between professionally edited online encyclopaedias across Europe (and beyond) is enabled. This paper elaborates a range of initiatives seeking to build connections across individual European and North American national encyclopaedias, focusing on the role that Croatian encyclopaedistics plays in this endeavour.

Informational Infrastructure of the Common Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge

The space of scientific knowledge is understood as a system of knowledge from various fields of science tested by the scientific community. The Common Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge (CDSSK) is a digital environment into which information resources and objects that have been tested by the scientific community and that reflect scientific knowledge from a different fields of science are integrated. The common digital space of scientific knowledge consists of a set of thematic subspaces related to various areas of science, built according to common principles. The first step towards the implementation of the CDSSK is the development of its ontology, i.e. a multi-level system of concepts describing resources and objects of subject areas, concepts, terms and connections between them, characterized by an open hierarchical and dynamic structuring, oriented both for storing existing knowledge and for extracting new ones. Since the CDSSK is a fundamentally new information environment, ...

Web of Knowledge: a powerful tool for researchers

SISOBserver, 2013

Knowledge infrastructures: Part I

In search of new models of scientific communication in electronic environment: case of scientists in the field of social sciences in Croatia

2000

Science is a basic social activity that helps the development of society. It is also a dynamical system, which components are in constant interaction enabling transfer of scientific information to all of the system's components and to the outside world. For that reason scientists need adaptable and flexible tools which will enable dissemination of quality scientific material to them, their

The NetAcademy Project: A new concept in scientific knowledge accumulation and dissemination

Putting Local Knowledge Online: does it become international?

2004

The Role of Online Encyclopaedia in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

As a subject of research, analysis, and presentation, cultural heritage usually consists of the groups of individual tangible and intagible components, which are significantly stratified (in terms of subject, region, nation, period etc). The transition from the 'individual' toward 'general' and surpassing the fragmetation of knowledge is achievable by means of knowledge linking and networking. Innovative information technology tools, as well as the development of Digital Humanities, enable new possibilities of knowledge linking and networking. Thanks to their structured organisation and the system of linking of fragmented knowledge, traditional encylopaedic works are precursors of the advanced information technology solutions for data retrieval and search, which incorporate even the Internet. Moreover, the modern online encyclopaedias, as the means of structuring the unstructured data, are one of the generators of a fundamental structure of the Semantic Web. In addition, modern encyclopaedic projects performed in a digital environment, online encyclopaedias, and encyclopaedic portals of knowledge allow for continous updating and content expansion, as well as for a collaboration and cooperation between the content providers and users. In such a way, they can serve as the ideal platforms for the internal and external knowledge networking by linking to the digital data and collections from other institutons, thus also acting as a basic component of the scientific and professional infrastructure for the preservation of cultural heritage.This paper will demonstrate various functionalities that have recently contributed to the transition of online encyclopaedias into the platfoms for knowledge dissemination, sharing and networking. This paper's premises will be elaborated on the Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology – a project of encyclopaedisation, research, and aggregation of Croatian technological heritage as a part of national cultural heritage. Keywords: online encyclopaedia, knowledge networking, Semantic Web, scientific and professional infrastructure, Croatian technological heritage, Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology

eViterbo global report. Outlines on the creation of a research open platform using MediaWiki and Wikibase

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022