# Open Research Knowledge Graph: Next Generation Infrastructure for Semantic Scholarly Knowledge

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new infrastructure for scholarly knowledge in the form of a machine-readable knowledge graph, enabling advanced processing and curation of academic information.

## Contribution

It presents the first multi-modal approach combining crowdsourced and automated methods for acquiring scholarly knowledge into a knowledge graph.

## Key findings

- Users found the infrastructure novel and engaging.
- The approach shows promise for enabling innovative scholarly knowledge processing.
- Initial user evaluation indicates positive reception and potential benefits.

## Abstract

Despite improved digital access to scholarly knowledge in recent decades, scholarly communication remains exclusively document-based. In this form, scholarly knowledge is hard to process automatically. In this paper, we present the first steps towards a knowledge graph based infrastructure that acquires scholarly knowledge in machine actionable form thus enabling new possibilities for scholarly knowledge curation, publication and processing. The primary contribution is to present, evaluate and discuss multi-modal scholarly knowledge acquisition, combining crowdsourced and automated techniques. We present the results of the first user evaluation of the infrastructure with the participants of a recent international conference. Results suggest that users were intrigued by the novelty of the proposed infrastructure and by the possibilities for innovative scholarly knowledge processing it could enable.