Comments on: Vivo Harvester for Symplectic Elements http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/04/25/vivo-harvester-for-symplectic-elements/ Open Source Open Thought Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ian http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/04/25/vivo-harvester-for-symplectic-elements/#comment-1425 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:55:45 +0000 http://blog.tfd.co.uk/?p=618#comment-1425 Hi,
Symplectic Elements provides functionality to disambiguate the input data, some of which is automated. There are many reasons why an institution might want to disambiguate and clean the data relating to the activities of its research community, RAE is just one specific to the UK. I think the advantage that a feed from Elements has over a feed direct from the N source that Elements takes its feeds from, is that the Elements provides a mechanism by which a human being can guide the disambiguation and deal with edge cases. Direct feeds via a Harvester embed the disambiguation into code, either SparQL or XSLT which increases the skill level required to perform that job. But you are right, if there is ambiguety and duplication in core Elements data, the Symplectic Harvester code will not attempt to perform disambiguation and de-duplication. It does attempt some basic de-duplication on the edges of the Elements graph.

]]> By: David Mann http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/04/25/vivo-harvester-for-symplectic-elements/#comment-1424 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:27:34 +0000 http://blog.tfd.co.uk/?p=618#comment-1424 Hi Ian

Suppose the institution doesn’t perform RAEs because it is in the U.S. This may lead to ambiguities in the symplectic system. Will ambiguity in the symplectic system appear in the vivo instance if using the harvester (garbage in, garbage out (: ) ?

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