EINS evidence base: A semantic catalogue for internet experimentation and measurement

Abstract

To explore the socio-technical aspects of the Internet requires infrastructures to properly foster interdisciplinary work and the development of appropriate research methods. To this end we present a platform called EINS Evidence Base (EINS-EB) which is developed as part of the EINS project. The EINS-EB also aims to empower researchers, academics, organisations and society to engage with Internet Science research independent of background. Currently, it provides for the collection and discovery of data resources, of analytic and simulation tools, and, in the future, of the methodologies behind those tools an of relevant scholarly activity. We explore issues of data representation, dataset description, dataset catalogues and method catalogues for Internet Science. The evidence base adopts semantic technologies to provide an interoperable catalogue of online resources related to Internet science. We also present activities on making the evidence base interoperable with related e-Science activities by communities engaging in relevant interdisciplinary collaboration.