RDFtex: Knowledge Exchange Between LATEX-Based Research Publications and Scientific Knowledge Graphs

Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SciKGs) aim to integrate scientific knowledge in a machine-readable manner. For populating SciKGs, research publications pose a central source of knowledge. The goal is to represent both contextual information, i.e., metadata, and contentual information, i.e., original contributions like definitions and experimental results, of research publications in SciKGs. However, typical forms of research publications like traditional papers do not provide means of integrating contributions into SciKGs. Furthermore, they do not support making direct use of the rich information SciKGs provide. To tackle this, the present paper proposes RDFtex, a framework enabling (1) the import of contributions represented in SciKGs to facilitate the preparation of LATEX-based research publications and (2) the export of original contributions to facilitate their integration into SciKGs. As a proof of concept, an RDFtex implementation is provided. We demonstrate the framework's functionality using the example of the present paper itself since it was prepared using this implementation.