Gennem flere år har forskere på tværs af faglige kompetencer og nationaliteter arbejdet på at udvikle et virtuelt laboratorium til evaluering af informationssystemer. Netværket hedder PROMISE-projektet, og i sidste uge var en af partnerforskerne på besøg på IVA for at komme målet endnu nærmere.
Georgeta Bordea er ph.d.-studerende på National University of
Ireland, Galway, men i uge 42 var hun i Danmark for at bringe
PROMISE-projektet nærmere dets målsætning gennem videnudveksling
med forskere på IVA.
"The main focus for my stay here is that we would like some
knowledge exchange: We come to the table with our experience in
processing text, getting the topics that people work on, and
the more content based part where it is the full text of the
scientific publication we analyze. The approach here at IVA would
be to analyze how people are cited, so you would look at how many
citations a paper gets and you would have different ways
of measuring that. Putting these two things together would be
an interesting thing for us to do, and this is what we will work
on. But this week is more about getting to know each other's work,
and setting up some basis for our joined work," fortæller
Georgeta.
"At the end of the week, I'm hoping to have a much better
understanding of the citation based analysis and maybe some
concrete plans of publishing something together, maybe some
conferences, deadlines and of course contact with people from this
group."
PROMISE-projektet er et "network of excellence", der samler
kompetencerne og forskerne hos 14 partnerinstitutioner på tværs af
EU. Idéen bag PROMISE er at samle de mange spredte kræfter, der
lægges i skabelse af datasæt til evaluering af
informationssystemer, fx søgemaskiner. Formålet med PROMISE er at
skabe et virtuelt laboratorium, der gør det muligt at udføre,
fremme og bringe automatisering ind i evaluering og benchmarking af
komplekse informationssystemer. Dette gøres ved at lette styring,
adgang, datasikring, konservering, genbrug, analyse, visualisering
og udvinding af de indsamlede eksperimentelle data.
Projektet løber indtil august 2013, men Georgeta Bordea kan
allerede nu trække vigtige resultater frem, som PROMISE har
nået:
"The two main assets of the project would be the system that
allows you to access all the data. You can just go to one place and
get access to all the data. A conference has also been
organized, which has a high recognition in the community with a lot
of researchers participating."
Af Rikke Schielder