The Planetary System: Executable Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Papers

TL;DR

The paper introduces the Planetary system, enabling executable scientific papers in STEM that link to machine-readable data, allowing interactive exploration and validation of scientific findings through semantic annotations and client-side tools.

Contribution

It presents a novel system that integrates semantic annotations, linked data, and interactive client-side tools to make scientific papers executable and explorative.

Findings

Realized executable papers in STEM using Planetary.

Semantic annotations connect papers to a shared content ontology.

Client-side players enable interactive manipulation of scientific results.

Abstract

Executable scientific papers contain not just layouted text for reading. They contain, or link to, machine-comprehensible representations of the scientific findings or experiments they describe. Client-side players can thus enable readers to "check, manipulate and explore the result space". We have realized executable papers in the STEM domain with the Planetary system. Semantic annotations associate the papers with a content commons holding the background ontology, the annotations are exposed as Linked Data, and a frontend player application hooks modular interactive services into the semantic annotations.