SmartReviews: Towards Human- and Machine-actionable Representation of Review Articles

TL;DR

SmartReviews is a tool that enhances review articles by making them more accessible to machines through a knowledge graph, enabling dynamic, community-driven, and machine-actionable scholarly reviews.

Contribution

It introduces a novel authoring and publishing platform that creates living, machine-readable review articles using a scholarly knowledge graph.

Findings

Successful community-based authoring of living articles

Enhanced machine accessibility of review content

Addressed limitations of traditional review articles

Abstract

Review articles are a means to structure state-of-the-art literature and to organize the growing number of scholarly publications. However, review articles are suffering from numerous limitations, weakening the impact the articles could potentially have. A key limitation is the inability of machines to access and process knowledge presented within review articles. In this work, we present SmartReviews, a review authoring and publishing tool, specifically addressing the limitations of review articles. The tool enables community-based authoring of living articles, leveraging a scholarly knowledge graph to provide machine-actionable knowledge. We evaluate the approach and tool by means of a SmartReview use case. The results indicate that the evaluated article is successfully addressing the weaknesses of the current review practices.