Year 1 (October 2006-October 2007):

Phase 1:

1) Definition of model of scholarly communication process in form of OWL/RDF ontology.

2) Publication of defined ontology in domain conferences and journals.

3) Publication of initial comparative results.

4) Implementation of web site to inform community of activities and progress

Phase 2:

1) Implementation of hardware and software to store aggregated bibliographic, citation and usage data at the scale of about 1-2 billion triples

2) Definition of de-duplication and identification schemes

3) Implementation of data normalization, de-duplication and insertion modules

4) Demonstration of prototype ontology and related triple-store for LANL test data.

5) Loading of data into dedicated triple store

6) Qualitative evaluation of generated model: verification and validation of aggregated data set

7) Report on experiences in domain’s leading conferences and journals

Phase 3:

1) Perform internal cross-validation of model data, in particular usage data

2) Determine and investigate network properties of model, in particular of usage data

3) Create spatial and longitudinal mappings of bibliographic, citation and usage data

4) Report on results in domain’s leading conference(s) or journal(s)

5) Formulate recommendations with regards to usage-based evaluation metrics on basis of lessons learned.

Phase 4:

1) Definition of set of potential metrics, including scalability considerations

2) Production of metrics data sets: ranking of entities in scholarly community according to defined metrics, i.e. author, article, journal, affiliation rankings.

3) Cross-validation of metric outcomes

4) Investigation of metric relationships, semantics and correlates : production of metric correlation matrix and associated taxonomy/factor analysis.

5) Formulation of guidelines on metric semantics, usage and applicability.

6) Publication of report and guidelines on alternative metrics of scholarly status, focusing on usage-based metrics and methods.

7) Publication of scholarly status model and taxonomy of metrics

8) Define strategy and architecture for continued development

9) Publication of developed schemas, ontologies and developed standards in journal and conference venues.

10) Final report to Andrew W. Mellon Foundation