Harvesting and aggregation of research activity data

Journal article

Data harvesting and data aggregation are terms we come across very often nowadays. They are normally used in online (web, internet) contexts , and refer to the manipulation of large volumes of online data to facilitate their access, analysis and preservation as well as to improve their visibility. With the amount of online data growing exponentially and lacking structure, finding information on the web becomes harder. In this changing context harvesting and aggregation become crucial processes to incorporate some order and facilitate access particularly to information professionals. But, do you know exactly how data harvesting and data aggregation are done? Do you know what kinds of transformations data go through and how these transformations can help us?

Authors: Loureiro-Koechlin, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: SCONUL
• Journal: SCONUL Focus
• Issue: 50
• Pages: 71-75
• Publication date: 2011-01-30
• Edition: Author's Original
• ISSN: 1745-5782
• Language: English
• Keywords: research activity data; BRII; data aggregation; semantic web; entity registry; data harvesting
• Subjects: Library & information science