Abstract The Living Labs for Academic Search (LiLAS) lab aims to strengthen the concept of
user-centric living labs for academic search. The methodological gap between real-world …

In this paper, we investigate the retrievability of datasets and publications in a real-life Digital
Library (DL). The measure of retrievability was originally developed to quantify the influence …

Reproducibility is a central aspect of offline as well as online evaluations, to validate the
results of different teams and in different experimental setups. However, often it is difficult or …

Retrievability measures the influence a retrieval system has on the access to information in a
given collection of items. This measure can help in making an evaluation of the search …

Data curation is a complex, multi-faceted task. While dedicated data stewards are starting to
take care of these activities in close collaboration with researchers for many types of (usually …

For qualitative data analysis (QDA), researchers assign codes to text segments to arrange
the information into topics or concepts. These annotations facilitate information retrieval and …

Secondary analysis or the reuse of existing survey data is a common practice among social
scientists. Searching for relevant datasets in Digital Libraries is a somehow unfamiliar …

Nowadays there is a growing trend in many scientific disciplines to support researchers by
providing enhanced information access through linking of publications and underlying …

The need for innovation in the field of academic search and IR, in general, is shown by the
stagnating system performance in controlled evaluation campaigns, as demonstrated in …

In the big data environment, the visualization technique has been increasingly adopted to
mine the data on library and information (L&I), with the diversification of data sources and …