Systematic literature review search and selection files for the thesis "FasterSparql: An architecture for query mediation over loosely coupled federations of knowledge graphs"

These are supplemental files to the Systematic Literature Review contained in chapter 3 of the thesis entitled  "FasterSparql: An architecture for query mediation over loosely coupled federations of knowledge graphs", which is under review.

The files here cover the document selection method for documents returned by Scopus:

scopus.qry: contains the query sent to Scopus. This should be the same string in the thesis, if it is not, then this repository or the thesis were updated.

scopus.csv: contains the results given by Scopus for the query in scopus.qry

selection.ods: contains three sheets:

scopus: a copy o scopus.csv with reordered columns, a dark background and additional columns which record inclusion/exclusion decisions for each document. 

Note: each document gets a SLR-scoped ID, which is used to cross-reference documents from other sheets.

mediator: data collection for mediators/prototypes/execution engines presented in documents returned by Scopus or which are indirectly referenced by a document that was returned by Scopus.

excluded-mediators: This sheet includes mediators which at some point were considered mediators but were found to not match inclusion criteria or to match exclusion criteria only during data collection. 

The method as described in the thesis included snowballing. Documents included by snowballing have a witness document in the mediator sheet but no ID on the selected column. Documents which were considered due to snowballing but not included were not recorded. Recording snowballed exclusion would require fetching and recording bibliographical information on every irrelevant document, which would exceed the allowed time budget for this review.