A decade of Semantic Web research through the lenses of a mixed methods approach (Resources)

This work has been submitted to Semantic Web Journal. We provide here resources to reproduce our approach.

In this paper, we aim to provide a broader and more complete picture of Semantic Web topics and trends by adopting a mixed methods methodology, which allows a combined use of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Concretely, we build on a qualitative analysis of the main seminal papers, which adopt a top-down approach, and on quantitative results derived with three bottom-up data-driven approaches (Rexplore, Saffron, PoolParty), on a corpus of Semantic Web papers published in the last decade. In this process, we both use the latter for “fact-checking” on the former and also to derive key findings in relation to the strengths and weaknesses of top-down and bottom-up approaches to research topic identification.

Please access the full set of resources at: https://aic.ai.wu.ac.at/qadlod/SW/