{"id":1218,"date":"2026-07-15T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/?page_id=1218"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:40:28","slug":"exploring-scholarly-data-with-rexplore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/exploring-scholarly-data-with-rexplore\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Scholarly Data with Rexplore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/stadia\/speakerimages\/2722.jpg\" alt=\" Francesco Osborne\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francesco Osborne<br><small>This event took place on Wednesday 05 March 2014 at 11:30<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Rexplore leverages novel solutions in large-scale data mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics, to<br><br>provide an innovative environment for exploring and making sense of scholarly data. In particular, Rexplore allows users:<br><br>\u2022 To detect and make sense of important trends in research, such as, significant migrations of researchers from one area to another, the emergence of new topics, the evolution of communities within a particular area, and several others.<br><br>\u2022 To identify a variety of interesting relations between researchers, e.g., recognizing authors who share similar research trajectories. These relations go well beyond the standard co-authorship links or relationships informed by social networks, which are commonly found in other systems.<br><br>\u2022 To perform fine-grained expert search with respect to detailed multi-dimensional parameters.<br><br>In this seminar I will provide an overview of Rexplore and in particular I will illustrate some of its key innovative elements of the tool, including:<br><br>\u2022 Metrics and visualizations conceived to assess similarities between authors, migration flows and the performance of an author in different topics.<br><br>\u2022 Klink, an algorithm to automatically craft semantic relationships between research areas from keywords associated to documents and external sources.<br><br>\u2022 A novel approach to building science maps, enabling them to describe the diachronic behavior of research communities, how they interact and how they react to external events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/preview.php?s=29&amp;whichevent=2334\">Watch the webcast replay &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-css wp-custom-css-ac9b5317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"Maven of the Month\" class=\"wp-image-537\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/maven-of-the-month\/\">Maven of the Month<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also inviting top experts in AI and Knowledge Technologies to discuss major socio-technological topics with an audience that comprises both members of the Knowledge Media Institute, as well as the wider staff at The Open University. 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