SOFTWARE CATALOGUE FOR SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT EXPLICATION

Abstract

Computerization of scientific activity has changed the interdisciplinary study mechanics and researchers' views, providing new opportunities for analysis. This paper presents a catalogue of analytical software widely used for contextual knowledge explication and scientific text mining. The catalogue focuses on the contextual knowledge types (contexts) processed with a software considered, and applies both, human-oriented and machine-oriented IS descriptions. The human-oriented description of a software catalogue is presented by a corresponding IS architecture (applications and data) on conceptualization level. The machine-oriented software description is performed with Dublin Core metadata. The Dublin Core metadata have allowed structuring the main software characteristics and provided the metadata export to other presentation formats to be place in various kinds of ISs and metadata aggregators. The machine-readable part of the catalogue performs the replenishment tasks, software effective search and its recognition in accordance with the research tasks. The practical implementation of the catalogue as an open access network platform by the OAI-PMH metadata exchange protocol provides the integration into the scientific information space as a researchers’ guidance. the authors, types of contexts are distinguished as an essential software characteristics. The main functions implemented in the software are also allocated as a separate characteristics. The following is a structured description of a software to be presented in a catalogue form. Software systematization in the catalogue is performed on the enlarged classes of tasks. The catalogue is presented in two forms: human-readable and machine-readable. A human-readable catalogue representation proposes a software architecture at a conceptual level. The software architecture reflects the modules, functions, and types of contexts being processed. The paper presents two cases to demonstrate the results obtained in the form of a structured description of T-Libla and Voyant-tools softwires. The developed systematized and structured presentation of the software replenishes the catalogue with new software, as well as ensures its effective selection for research purposes based on contextual knowledge explication and analysis.