Literature reviews have long played a fundamental role in synthesizing the current state of a research field. However, in recent years, certain fields have evolved at such a rapid rate that literature reviews quickly lose their relevance as new work is published that renders them outdated. We should therefore rethink how to structure and publish such literature reviews with their highly valuable synthesized content. Here, we aim to determine if existing Linked Data technologies can be harnessed to prolong the relevance of literature reviews and whether researchers are comfortable with working with such a solution. We present here our approach of ``living literature reviews'' where the core information is represented as Linked Data which can be amended with new findings after the publication of the literature review. We present a prototype implementation, which we use for a case study where we expose potential users to a concrete literature review modeled with our approach. We observe that our model is technically feasible and is received well by researchers, with our ``living'' versions scoring higher than their traditional counterparts in our user study. In conclusion, we find that there are strong benefits to using a Linked Data solution to extend the effective lifetime of a literature review.
翻译：文献审查长期以来在综合研究领域现状方面发挥了根本作用。然而,近年来,某些领域的发展速度如此之快,文献审查在出版新工作后迅速失去相关性,使其过时。因此,我们应该重新思考如何构建和出版这类文献审查及其极有价值的合成内容。在这里,我们的目标是确定是否可以利用现有链接数据技术来延长文献审查的相关性,以及研究人员是否对采用这种解决办法感到满意。我们在这里提出“生物文献审查”的方法,核心信息被作为链接数据,在出版文献审查后,这些数据可以与新的研究结果一起修改。我们介绍了一个原型执行情况,用于进行案例研究,让潜在用户以我们的方法接受具体的文献审查。我们观察到,我们的模型在技术上是可行的,而且得到研究人员的好,我们的“生活”版本比我们用户研究中的传统同行的得分要高。最后,我们发现,使用链接数据解决方案来延长文献审查的有效寿命很有益处。
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