Markus Stocker

@stockerm.bsky.social

Head of the Lab Knowledge Infrastructures at TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology contributing to digitalization in science with knowledgeloom.tib.eu.

Fantastic work led by my colleague @hghi.bsky.social! Hadi's paper introduces an open-source digital library for #machine-readable scientific knowledge. The goal: enhance the reusability & reproducibility of #science. Want to see your work there? Email us at reborn@orkg.org @stockerm.bsky.social

Open Research Knowledge Graph@orkg.bsky.social · last yr.

#rebornArticles now have their very own 🏡 Check out ORKG reborn, an emerging #digitallibrary where scientific knowledge is born reusable, accurate, reproducible, & open. Check out the #SIGIR paper led by Hadi Ghaemi for the details! Paper: doi.org/10.1145/3726... Digital library: reborn.orkg.org

Very excited to share our #openaccess article that rethinks longstanding scientific production & publication practices. Read it in Scientific Data or watch it in dance form on YouTube 💃 😅 📃 bit.ly/4iKb6Vj 📹 bit.ly/3Y27S8f @markusstocker.com @fair2adapt-eosc-eu.bsky.social

Dance Your PhD 2025: Rethinking the Production of Research Findings

This video is a submission for the special AI/quantum category of the 2025 “Dance your PhD” competition run by AAAS and Science: bit.ly/4c8Ricx Despite significant advances in digital technologies, modern scientific results are still communicated using antiquated methods. Since the first scientific article published in 1665, we have managed the switch from physically printed articles to PDFs, but these electronic documents are still text-based and not machine-readable. This means your computer cannot interpret the information they contain without some level of human assistance (e.g., detailed prompts, large amounts of training data). With millions of scientific articles published annually, researchers and other data users stand to benefit greatly from approaches that enable machine-assisted information organization and reuse. In this video, we explore the limitations of text-based PDF articles from a machine’s perspective and demonstrate how using knowledge bases that structure scientific information in a machine-readable format can address some of these challenges. Using color to represent different kinds of scientific information (think figures, tables, and statistical analyses), we look at a machine’s ability to interpret information in a text-based format compared to a machine-readable format. We use Zumba®, which uses structured dance sequences to create easy-to-learn choreographies, to represent the inherently structured nature of much scientific information, which is easily lost in PDFs. This video is inspired by research conducted at the Lab Knowledge Infrastructures led by Dr. Markus Stocker at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Germany. The video was produced by Lauren Snyder, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab and a licensed Zumba® instructor. We would like to extend a very special thank you to Zumba® for their permission to use and perform their original song, Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music). We are also very grateful to ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut for the Zumba® choreography that we adapted for this video. Learn more about the researcher and machine-readable scientific information here: Lauren Snyder: @laurendsnyder.bsky.social (Bluesky), @dr.zumba_lauren (Instagram) Machine-readable reborn articles: https://reborn.orkg.org For any questions related to the video, please contact Lauren at lauren.snyder@tib.eu REFERENCE Markus Stocker, Lauren Snyder, Matthew Anfuso, Oliver Ludwig, Freya Thießen, Kheir Eddine Farfar, Muhammad Haris, Allard Oelen, and Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh (2024). Rethinking the production and publication of machine-reusable expressions of research findings (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2405.13129 CREDITS Directed, Written, & Produced by Lauren Snyder with creative inspiration from Ricardo Perez Alvarez Cast (alphabetical order) Vinodh Ilangovan Ida Keller Ekaterina Mogilnaia Alica Oppermann Tobias Oppermann Susen Orth Sonja Rexin Mia Richter Maya Schaefer Lauren Snyder Filmed by Kevin Baumann & Ricardo Perez Alvarez Edited by Kevin Baumann Choreography ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut & ZIN™ Lauren Snyder Music Credits Zumba® Original - Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music) The research portrayed in this video is led by researchers at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, and is associated with the Leibniz-Lab “Systemic Sustainability” project funded by the Leibniz Association and the FAIR2Adapt Horizon Europe Project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s HorizonEurope programme under the grant agreement number 101188256. Any dissemination of results here presented reflects only the consortium view. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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Open Research Knowledge Graph@orkg.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New article alert. Open-source approach transforms the production of scientific results by making them machine-readable. Published in Scientific Data from @natureportfolio.nature.com Open access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Press release: bit.ly/4iKb6Vj #FAIRScience #pressrelease

Wer sich in D schon mal um 1 Professur beworben hat, weiß es: Der irrsinnige Aufwand steht in eklatantem Missverhältnis zur winzigen Chance, dass es klappt. Oft vergehen 2 Jahre, bis Bewerber_innen mal 1 Info zum Verfahren erhalten. Meine Erfahrungen dazu: Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna

Schlechter Ruf: Die Zumutungen deutscher Berufungsverfahren

Der Aufwand: irrsinnig, die Chancen: gering. Berufungsverfahren in Deutschland sind von diesem Missverhältnis geprägt. Ein Plädoyer dafür, die Zeit von Wissenschaftler_innen nicht weiter zu verschwend...

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As part of the 2025 #DanceYourPhD competition, I got to combine two of my passions - #science and #Zumba🤓💃 Gosh was it fun! Thanks so much to the creative souls who made it possible, especially my #Giessen Zumba friends & video editor extraordinaire Kevin Baumann! Check it out 👇 bit.ly/3Y27S8f

Dance Your PhD 2025: Rethinking the Production of Research Findings

This video is a submission for the special AI/quantum category of the 2025 “Dance your PhD” competition run by AAAS and Science: bit.ly/4c8Ricx Despite significant advances in digital technologies, modern scientific results are still communicated using antiquated methods. Since the first scientific article published in 1665, we have managed the switch from physically printed articles to PDFs, but these electronic documents are still text-based and not machine-readable. This means your computer cannot interpret the information they contain without some level of human assistance (e.g., detailed prompts, large amounts of training data). With millions of scientific articles published annually, researchers and other data users stand to benefit greatly from approaches that enable machine-assisted information organization and reuse. In this video, we explore the limitations of text-based PDF articles from a machine’s perspective and demonstrate how using knowledge bases that structure scientific information in a machine-readable format can address some of these challenges. Using color to represent different kinds of scientific information (think figures, tables, and statistical analyses), we look at a machine’s ability to interpret information in a text-based format compared to a machine-readable format. We use Zumba®, which uses structured dance sequences to create easy-to-learn choreographies, to represent the inherently structured nature of much scientific information, which is easily lost in PDFs. This video is inspired by research conducted at the Lab Knowledge Infrastructures led by Dr. Markus Stocker at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Germany. The video was produced by Lauren Snyder, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab and a licensed Zumba® instructor. We would like to extend a very special thank you to Zumba® for their permission to use and perform their original song, Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music). We are also very grateful to ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut for the Zumba® choreography that we adapted for this video. Learn more about the researcher and machine-readable scientific information here: Lauren Snyder: @laurendsnyder.bsky.social (Bluesky), @dr.zumba_lauren (Instagram) Machine-readable reborn articles: https://reborn.orkg.org For any questions related to the video, please contact Lauren at lauren.snyder@tib.eu REFERENCE Markus Stocker, Lauren Snyder, Matthew Anfuso, Oliver Ludwig, Freya Thießen, Kheir Eddine Farfar, Muhammad Haris, Allard Oelen, and Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh (in press). Rethinking the production and publication of machine-reusable expressions of research findings. Scientific Data. CREDITS Directed, Written, & Produced by Lauren Snyder with creative inspiration from Ricardo Perez Alvarez Cast (alphabetical order) Vinodh Ilangovan Ida Keller Ekaterina Mogilnaia Alica Oppermann Tobias Oppermann Susen Orth Sonja Rexin Mia Richter Maya Schaefer Lauren Snyder Filmed by Kevin Baumann & Ricardo Perez Alvarez Edited by Kevin Baumann Choreography ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut & ZIN™ Lauren Snyder Music Credits Zumba® Original - Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music) The research portrayed in this video is led by researchers at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, and is associated with the Leibniz-Lab “Systemic Sustainability” project funded by the Leibniz Association and the FAIR2Adapt Horizon Europe Project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s HorizonEurope programme under the grant agreement number 101188256. Any dissemination of results here presented reflects only the consortium view. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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Ecologist Ricardo Perez Alvarez is working on one of the trickiest puzzles of our time—how to balance food production 🥦🌽 and the protection of our natural resources 🌎. Read his story in our new series featuring researchers who are pioneering machine-readable #rebornArticles. bit.ly/3FFB3r4

Dr Ricardo Perez-Alvarez on harmonizing food production and nature - TIB-Blog

A landscape ecologist at the University of Giessen in Germany channels his curiosity about nature into his research.

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