Telemakus: A Schema-Based Information System to Promote Scientific Discovery

With the rapid expansion of scientific research, the ability to effectively find or integrate new domain knowledge in the sciences is proving increasingly difficult. While development of information systems to promote scientific discovery is being explored on a number of fronts, much of this work is based on traditional search and retrieval approaches and the bibliographic citation format remains unchanged. In the Telemakus system, aggregated citation information and content-based research findings are displayed in a conceptual schema. Dynamic mapping provides graphical displays of research interrelationships from documents across a domain. We describe a working implementation of a system designed to enhance the knowledge discovery process through graphical presentation and interaction tools to mine and map author-reported research findings and their associated methods.