Entity-fishing for Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Recommendations

On 4th September 2018 the Göttingen State and University Library, with the support of the Max Weber Stiftung, organised the second HIRMEOS Workshop on Entity-Fishing for Digital Humanities and Scholarly Publishing. Entity-fishing enables identification and resolution of entities: named entities like person-name, location, organizations, as well as specialist and less commonly classified ones, such as concepts, artifacts, etc. .

The workshop aimed to discuss and clarify practical concerns arising when using the service and possible new use cases presented by Edition Open Access, ScholarLed and Septentrio Academic Publishing.

This report describes challenges related to the development of these applications and provides recommendations for its integration and use on digital publishing platforms. The solutions proposed can be further applied on other domains.