Methodology and technology for developing digital knowledge maps for education and research teams (METAKARTA)

Project “Methodology and technology for developing digital knowledge maps for education and research teams (METAKARTA)”.

The METAKARTA project is focused on solving the current problem of extracting, structuring and formalizing the knowledge of members of research teams to improve the quality of scientific communications, information exchange and positioning in the market of intellectual services. The development of methodology and technology for digital knowledge mapping also makes it possible to transform “tacit” knowledge into explicit knowledge for more effective management of the intellectual capital of universities and scientific institutes.

Visualization of corporate knowledge in enterprises and organizations creates the potential to improve the quality of information support and management efficiency in conditions of significant information overload. The novelty of the project is determined both by the interdisciplinary nature of the task, and by the broad coverage of the tasks set and completed.

Ontologies as conceptual models of a subject area are one of the most promising approaches to the development of knowledge bases and knowledge graphs. Ontologies in the project serve as a system-forming theoretical and methodological framework for knowledge maps.

Knowledge maps are diagrams that reflect the main intellectual resources, their content, location and owners. They combine the so-called WHAT-, HOW-, WHO- and WHERE-knowledge.

The project consists of two stages:

In 2024, the second stage of the project was implemented and the following results were obtained.

A. A practical method of designing object and role ontologies has been created and tested.

B. An algorithm for the formation of basic questionnaires for universities based on subject ontologies is proposed.

C. Adjustments to approaches to data collection and to the aggregation of response data on the assessment of areas of expertise have been made, as well as recommendations have been formulated for the digitization of responses to self-assessment of experience and rating in teaching, research and applied activities.

D. Recommendations for the organization and management of knowledge centers have been developed.

E. A prototype of the first atlas of knowledge maps for educational and scientific organizations (including maps of educational, scientific and consulting activities) was formed, including the expansion of the basic set proposed at the first stage.

F. Approbation of the results at scientific international and national conferences, as well as publication of 2 articles in journals from the list of the Higher Attestation Commission.

In addition, an approach to the construction of scientometric diagrams was developed.

The work plan for the second stage of 2024 has been fully implemented, which is reflected in 10 prepared publications, 8 have already been published, of which 2 articles are in the journals of the Higher Attestation Commission, 4 are in English in the proceedings of international conferences. 2 publications have been accepted and are in print.

 A total of 20 publications were prepared as a result of the METACARTA project.

The obtained results of the study correspond to the international level of research in this field of knowledge, which is confirmed by publications and discussion of the intermediate results of the project at international and all-Russian conferences.