Enhanced publication: a new model of scientific publication for the nuclear area

Resumo

The new scientific paradigm known as eScience is characterized by the generation, use and dynamic sharing of research data, mainly, driven by the advancement of scientific instruments and intensive use of simulation software and computing equipment distributed in global networks. The data generated by eScience are digital objects and they are complex, heterogeneous, distributed and highly diversified, constituting the main products of the research activities of this paradigm. As a consequence, this phenomenon of contemporary research poses a new challenge for scientific communication: how express and disseminate through conventional publications - printed or digital - the sophistication and the multiplicity of research products generated by eScience research methodologies? The need to ensure semantic and structural properties and the ability to access, retrieval and reuse research data in different contexts, drives the emergence of unprecedented formulations of scientific publications. This research is empirical. The method used for it is inductive method because It investigates the main conceptions of scientific publications proposed to address the challenge of research data deluge to propose a new publication model. The focus is on the concept of "enhanced publication" that aggregates, in a standardized way, publications, data, data sets and metadata. It was taken as the main methodological the analyze of the principal reports:  DRIVER-II and Surf-fondation realatories [1,2] - that establishes the standards, models and practices for development of enhanced publications. Added to this, this work analyzes how research data combined with information technologies can enrich traditional publications creating new concepts of scientific documents that can deal with the complexity of scientific research of the current paradigm, breaking the barrier of text and creating semantic relationships between e-prints and data and data collections of research data. As a result was obtained a model of scientific publication to the Nuclear Sciences area, in which the research data are linked to the academic publications by means of semantic relations systematized into taxonomy built for this purpose. Graphic models are used as a tool to represent and synthesize the resulting concepts. As a conclusion it is observed: changes in the scholarly communication cycle, the possibility of building a new scientific model as relevant standard to the practice of a more open and more collaborative science, and feasibility of incorporating the principles and theories of librarianship and Information Science for the organization of technical and scientific knowledge in the world of eScience.