Towards Linked Research Data: an Institutional Approach

For Open Science to be widely adopted, a strong institutional support for scientists will be essential. Bielefeld University and the associated Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) have developed a platform that enables researchers to manage their publications and the underlying research data in an easy and efficient way. Following a Linked Data approach we integrate this data into a unified linked data store and interlink it with additional data sources from inside the university and outside sources like DBpedia. Based on the existing platform, a concrete case study from the domain of biology is implemented that releases optical motion tracking data of stick insect locomotion. We investigate the cost and usefulness of such a detailed, domain-specific semantic enrichment in order to evaluate whether this approach might be considered for large-scale deployment.