10 January 2019
Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University are collaborating to provide a Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of charge through the CSO Portal, a web application that enables users to download, explore, and provide feedback on the ontology.
Ontologies of research areas are important tools for characterising, exploring, and analysing a research landscape. This CSO contains information about 14,000 research topics and was automatically generated by means of the specialised data mining technologies developed by the SKM3 team at the Knowledge Media Institute.
This resource is produced entirely automatically and therefore can be regularly updated with little effort, is generated from a very large corpus of publications in computer science, and provides a fine-grained characterisation of this field of study.