May 21, 2012 Minister of Education and Science Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov is appointed. In his first public speaking he announces the intention of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES RF) to conduct a comprehensive audit of the research and development sector, including RAS institutes, state scientific organizations and higher educational establishments. This statement can be called the birth of "Map Russian science“Unfortunately, this project was somehow lost due to the events surrounding the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences and, in our opinion, did not receive due attention from the IT community. We offer you a small retrospective: the path of the project from concept to implementation.
The aimless path turns blue before me,
A long way, dug up by streams,
And then - darkness; and hidden in this darkness,
Soaring fate Arbiter fatal.Alexander Blok, October 1899
Part 1: competition
The Map of Russian Science project (http://mapofscience.ru/) was officially announced in December 2012. On the eve of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, a competition was held for the implementation of research work on the topic "Formation of a system for evaluating and monitoring the results of research activities of organizations and scientists for the regular assessment of the state of the field of science." The initial (maximum price) of the contract is 100 million rubles. The project was financed within the framework of the federal target program "Research and development on priority areas development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2007-2013” (Competition for 2012, Event 2.1, Queue 11, Lot 1).
Part 5: Reasons for failure
As follows from official position Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and numerous reviews of the expert scientific community, the "Map of Science" turned out to be unsatisfactory. Whether it corresponds to the goals of the executed state contract, we will not argue due to the lack of information about it. Another thing is important - how could such a situation be avoided? In our opinion, the key point in this story is that all the data on which this public Information system, are not open.
And here we would like to touch on a very actual problem open data in science. They simply don't exist. But if they were open, perhaps there would be no need for such a state order. The "Map of Science" could be implemented by any professional developer interested in open data and science. Moreover, there would be several such “maps”, given the corresponding demand from the state and the scientific community.
Let's look at the list of alleged Russian sources for Maps of Science:
- articles in Russian and foreign journals (NEB);
- Russian and foreign patents (FIPS);
- grants (FGBNU NII RINKCE, RFBR, RGNF);
- reports on research and development (CITiS);
- dissertations and abstracts (CITiS);
- publishing books (Russian Book Chamber);
- information about scientific organizations and their subdivisions (including universities and their faculties).
The vast majority of the above sources were formed by state budget and it is not clear why this data is not public.
Part 6: How to fix the situation?
06/29/2018, Fri, 16:14, Moscow time , Text: Valeria Shmyrova
The Accounts Chamber found out that the Ministry of Education and Science and the State Public Scientific and Technical Library committed numerous violations in the creation of the information system "Map of Russian Science". As a result, the system stopped working in February 2017. The contract for its creation, which was claimed by prominent state performers, at one time went to a private company with a staff of 5 people.
Why the "Map of Russian Science" does not work
The information system "Map of Russian Science", created by the Ministry of Education and Science, has not been working since February 2017 due to "numerous shortcomings", as reported by the Accounts Chamber based on the results of a corresponding audit. To create this system in 2012-2016. the ministry spent almost 450 million rubles. budget funds. The supervisory authority points out that the location of the "Karta" is not documented, and the system is not listed either on the balance sheet of the ministry or on the balance sheet of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library.
Based on the results of the audit, submissions will be sent to the Ministry of Education and Science and the library, as well as an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office and a report to the chambers of the Federal Assembly. The audit materials will be submitted to Federal Service security (FSB).
Recall that the "Map of Russian Science" is an information system that contains automatically updated data on scientists and scientific organizations. The "Map" presents data for the period from 2007 to 2016. In February 2017, the Council for Science under the Ministry of Education and Science stated that during the 4 years of its existence the system worked unsatisfactorily, and asked users not to use it anymore, switching instead to separate databases for different areas.
How was the tender
The Accounts Chamber reports that the competition for the creation of the "Map" received applications from seven organizations, among which were proposals from Moscow State University, Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Informatics, Semenikhin Research Institute of Automatic Equipment and the Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
However, according to the decision of the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science, the private company PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V. became the winner. It is a branch of another company registered in the Netherlands. The branch has five employees.
The Ministry of Education and Science made numerous violations when creating a large information system
Auditor Vladimir Katrenko noted at a meeting of the Board of the Accounts Chamber that Pricewaterhouse offered to implement the contract for 90 million rubles, and this application became the most expensive in the tender, since other contestants were ready to perform work for 50-60 million rubles.
Pricewaterhouse did not begin to independently develop an information system, but attracted AT Consulting LLC as a co-executor, which actually created Maps, receiving 27 million rubles for this. The library was involved in adding databases to the system and updating them - two contracts with a total value of almost 275 million rubles were signed with it for these works.
An audit by the Accounts Chamber showed that the Ministry of Education and Science accepted from Pricewaterhouse works of inadequate quality that did not meet the requirements of the terms of reference. This entailed risks of causing damage to the federal budget in the amount of more than 125 million rubles.
“The developed “Map” did not allow automatic updating of the database and contained functional errors. However, the Ministry of Education and Science did not take advantage of Pricewaterhouse's warranty obligations to eliminate deficiencies. As a result, the completion of the Map was carried out by the library and additionally cost the federal budget 79 million rubles,” Katrenko said.
Other violations
The audit of the Accounts Chamber concerned the expenditure of funds by the Ministry of Education and Science for the state program "Development of Science and Technology for 2013-2020", and the activities of the library were specifically checked. The period under review covers 2016-2017. In 2016, the Ministry received 46.6 billion rubles from the state for the implementation of the program, which is almost 32% of the total program budget. In 2017, more than 55 billion rubles were received, i.e. 34.5% of the program cost. Of these, 2.1 billion rubles were sent to the library, respectively. and 1.5 billion rubles.
As a result of the audit, violations were revealed in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles, both from the Ministry of Education and Science and from the library. During the implementation of the state program, state tasks with a total value of more than 143 million rubles were incorrectly formed and fulfilled. In addition, a subsidy of 80 million rubles. was spent on purposes that are not related to the state task.
The audit also found that in 2017, expenditures for the maintenance of property and its rental were included in the work under the state assignment, and these expenditures exceeded the real needs of the library. As a result, the amount of funding was unreasonably increased by more than 54 million rubles.
Also, during the implementation of the state program, violations in the field of public procurement were revealed. The Ministry of Education and Science and the library accepted works of inadequate quality that did not meet the terms of reference. In addition, the library received money for work that in fact did not perform. Some works were paid twice by the Ministry of Education and Science. The risks for the budget associated with these violations are estimated at almost 116 million rubles.
It also turned out that the State Public Scientific and Technical Library maintains its fund in unsatisfactory conditions. As of the beginning of 2018, its library stock consisted of more than 8 million titles with a total value of 152.2 million rubles. But the library building is designed to store only 3 million books, and another 5.6 million are stored in basements and semi-basements, and such premises occupy more than 83% of the total storage area. The library uses some repositories without concluding relevant agreements with organizations. Risks for the state budget associated with the possible loss library fund due to incorrect storage, are estimated at 127 million rubles.
Novikov E.A. in 2011 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Technology of the Moscow State University for the Humanities with a degree in Physical Processes in Mining or Oil and Gas Production. In the same year, he entered full-time postgraduate studies in the specialty 25.00.16 "Mining and oil and gas geology, geophysics, mine surveying and subsoil geometry."
During his postgraduate studies, he was awarded the scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation, order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated October 15, 2013 No. 1150.
In December 2013 he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic "Regularities of thermally stimulated acoustic emission in rocks and the development of geocontrol methods based on them." The work on this dissertation was carried out within the framework of grants Russian fund fundamental research No. 10-05-00141 and No. 13-05-00168, as well as partially the Federal Target Program "Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia" for 2009-2013 (Agreement No. 14.В37.21.0655).
From October 2011 to the present, he has been teaching at the Department of PhysGeo (former FTKP). Concurrently from 03.2010 to 02.2014 - Researcher at the Laboratory of Industrial Safety and Labor Protection of the NSC SE IGD named after. A.A. Skochinsky. From 03.2014 to present - Researcher at the Center for the Development of Underground Isolation of Radioactive Waste Technology (CTPI) of JSC VNIPIpromtekhnologii, an engineering center of ARMZ Uranium Holding Co.
Since 2012 he has been a member of the Russian Acoustic Society, since 2014 he has been a member of the American Acoustic Society.
He has the qualification of a specialist in non-destructive testing (defectoscopist) of the 2nd level with the right to supervise work on non-destructive testing by ultrasonic and visual-measuring methods.
Conducts classes on the following training courses read at the University :
1. Cluster of disciplines "Metrology, standardization and certification in mining".
2. Discipline "Measurements in a physical experiment".
3. Discipline "Mining geophysics".
4. Discipline "Educational research students .
For the period from 2009 to the present, Novikov E.A. prepared and published 32 scientific work, incl. 7 included in web of science /Scopus scientific articles. Author of 11 RF patents for invention. Prepared and published 7 educational and methodological developments (tutorials).
Knowledge foreign language : Certificate International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Band 6.0 No. 14 RU 003697 NOVE 006 A from 04.12.2014. Certificate BKC-International House about successful learning on the level of English language proficiency Advanced "(С1) dated 09/22/2013
Region scientific interests Keywords: geophysics, geomechanics, rational subsoil use, non-destructive testing, thermally stimulated acoustic emission, industrial safety, labor protection, radioactive waste disposal
In May 2012, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Livanov, announced the intention of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES RF) to conduct a comprehensive audit of the research and development sector, including RAS institutes, state scientific organizations and higher educational institutions. This statement can be called the birth "Maps of Russian Science". This project was officially announced in December 2012. On the eve of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, a competition was held for the implementation of research on the topic "Formation of a system for evaluating and monitoring the results of research activities of organizations and scientists for regular assessment of the state of the field of science". The initial (maximum price) of the contract is 100 million rubles. The project was financed within the framework of the federal target program "Research and development in priority areas of development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2007-2013" (Competition for 2012, Activity 2.1, Stage 11, Lot 1). The competition was won by a private consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.- PWC.
By the end of 2013 the project "Map of Russian Science" received paid access to two main databases - the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Web of Science (WoS). Incomplete access to the WoS database (its part related to Russian scientists) cost the budget 40 million rubles. A (however incomplete) database of leading Russian scientists was also added regarding their monographs, as well as information on participation in R&D and grants. Mirrors of the project are also available at www.scimap.alt-lan.com and www.kartanauki.rf "Maps of Russian Science" as the main source of information about the publications of authors and grant recipients.
Add your fingers!
By 2016, an array of data on foreign patents issued by Russian organizations; information on patents for inventions, utility models and industrial designs FGBU « Federal Institute industrial property»; as well as information on monographs, textbooks for universities, teaching aids for universities and collections scientific papers from FGBUN "Russian Book Chamber". As a result, in "Map of Russian Science" information is presented for the period from 2007 to 2016, followed by the necessary updating by the researchers themselves through manual data entry and requests to change information to technical support.
After confirmation of registration and verification of the user, information will appear in the "My Card" section, which you can edit and supplement.
If the list of publications immediately turns out to be incomplete, then you can search the system for the missing publications and, if they are successfully found, mark the authorship.
Despite the fact that until the end of 2016 the Map of Russian Science project actually never left the beta testing stage, that is, it functioned with systemic flaws, officials of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation (for state support of young Russian scientists and state support of leading scientific schools Russian Federation) treated this next product of the domestic cargo cult as a full-fledged database. This is evidenced by an announcement posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Research Institute RINCCE:
On participation in the competition for the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for 2017-2018.
To participate in the competition for the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for 2017-2018. for state support of young scientists, which will be announced at the end of August 2016, you will need to specify:
<...>The individual number of the scientist in the Map of Russian Science (to receive it, you must register on the site https://mapofscience.ru).
The scribe caught up suddenly, but was visible from afar!
On January 31, 2017, the Council for Science under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation published a statement on the website from the first meeting in 2017, in which the Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva also took part. According to this statement:
<...>During the competition, the organizers received project-related scientometric parameters from the so-called "Map of Russian Science". The Council considers that, in its four years of existence, this instrument has not reached any satisfactory quality. A significant part of the information presented by the "Map of Russian Science" is erroneous and cannot be used adequately in any way. This created significant difficulties in summing up the results of the competition in question.
The Council calls on the Ministry of Education and Science not to use the "Map of Russian Science" for any purpose in the future. Instead, the Council proposes to use a list of generally accepted databases for various fields.
In early February 2017, without any official announcement, the site and its mirrors disappeared from the Internet and are no longer available. At the same time, the further use of the purchased databases and the data entered by the users themselves remains unclear.
As an alternative "Map of Russian Science" Vice-Rector of Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, academician Alexei Khokhlov, in an interview with the newspaper "Search" dated 02/10/2017, proposed to apply the system "TRUE" or , which "Used at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov and is now being implemented in a pilot mode in ten institutes subordinate to FASO». No comments...
Is it a pity "monkey labor" those university professors and research institute employees who entered data about themselves into the database "cards"? No, not at all - in order to realize in one's own skin all the rottenness of the putinoid system, “vata grantees must suffer!” And the more they suffer, the happier they will exclaim at the sight of corrupt officials stuffed into garbage cans - "zaputintsev"!
May 21, 2012 Dmitry Livanov is appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In his first public speech, he voices the intention of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES RF) to conduct a comprehensive audit of the research and development sector, including RAS institutes, state scientific organizations and higher education institutions. This statement can be called the birth of the "Map of Russian Science".
Unfortunately, after the events around the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this project was somehow lost and, in our opinion, did not receive due attention from the IT community. We offer you a small retrospective: the path of the project from concept to implementation.
The aimless path turns blue before me,
A long way, dug up by streams,
And then - darkness; and hidden in this darkness,
Soaring fate Arbiter fatal.Alexander Blok, October 1899
Part 1: competition
The Map of Russian Science project (http://mapofscience.ru/) was officially announced in December 2012. On the eve of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, a competition was held for the implementation of research work on the topic "Formation of a system for evaluating and monitoring the results of research activities of organizations and scientists for the regular assessment of the state of the field of science." The initial (maximum price) of the contract is 100 million rubles. The project was financed within the framework of the federal target program "Research and development in priority areas of development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2007-2013" (Competition for 2012, Activity 2.1, Stage 11, Lot 1).
The following organizations took part in the competition:
- Institute of Systems Analysis Russian Academy sciences;
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V. (hereinafter referred to as PwC);
- Research Institute of Automatic Equipment. Academician V. S. Semenikhin;
- Moscow State University instrumentation and informatics;
- Moscow State Technical University named after N. E. Bauman;
- Lomonosov Moscow State University;
- INEK-Information Technologies.
The private consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V. won the tender by offering a contract value of 90 million rubles. and the deadline is 90 days.
It should be noted that Moscow State University offered to develop a "Map of Science" at about half the price - for 50 million rubles, but received low scores from the competition commission for quality and qualifications, taking second place. It looks strange, given that the University has some useful developments in this area: the information and analytical system Nauka-MGU has recently been launched, which collects and analyzes the publication activity of employees.
In the official press, the decision to choose PwC as a contractor was explained by the desire of the customer, represented by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, to conduct an “audit of Russian science” by an external organization that had nothing to do with the scientific community.
PwC spent 40 million to buy data from the Web of Science database (hereinafter referred to as WoS) from Thomson Reuters and 15 million to deploy technical infrastructure. Plus, the system requires, according to the performers, 10-15 million rubles. a year for support.
Unfortunately, we could not find in the public domain the state contract with the winner of the competition, as well as the terms of reference. (Attention, the question: does this contradict the competition law?) I would very much like to look at the amount of work that was announced on paper. Although from a formal point of view, this is no longer so important, since the project is designed as a research project: its result can be just a report, the implementation of at least a prototype is completely optional.
Part 2: What would you like to do?
“Our goal is to identify by name those scientists and those small scientific teams (that is, laboratories, scientific groups) who are already working in Russia today at a high international level. We will do this project with one simple goal - to understand where today Russia remains competitive, what areas of science are promising for us today, where we have a chance to make a breakthrough in the future. And, most importantly, to support - targeted - exactly those people, those scientists, those laboratories that deserve this support," Dmitry Livanov said in his interview to the Prosveshchenie TV channel.
In a document prepared by PwC, the project itself is described by the following thesis: "The Map of Russian Science" should become the basis for making informed management decisions in the field of research activities of scientists and organizations"; specific goals are also set:
- "inventory" of the current state of Russian science;
- quick on-demand access to up-to-date and correct indicators of Russian science;
- analytical tools for making informed management decisions;
- identifying the most authoritative experts and research teams for their targeted support;
- comparing the level of development of science in Russia with other countries and identifying points of growth;
- ensuring transparency of management decisions.
Data coverage was planned to be provided through:
- international sources: publications, reports on international conferences, patents, publications;
- Russian sources: publications, patents, grants, R&D, publications;
- indicators of both fundamental and applied science.
Data quality means:
- cleanup of the initial data to exclude different spellings of proper names;
- use of the data correction mechanism by scientists and organizations themselves;
- use of unique identifiers of scientists and organizations.
And finally, the functionality included:
- tools for comparison and identification of points of growth in science;
- building reports on given parameters for scientists, organizations, scientific directions;
- flexible search and filtering of data;
- identification of informal teams of scientists.
And now non-professionals, probably, it will not be very interesting, but since Habr is a technological blog, we considered it necessary to show the work plan and the architecture of the system being built. There are only three slides.
Barrels and arrows
Work plan
Architecture!
Part 3: what happened?
First of all, we invite Habr's readers to evaluate for themselves whether the declared functionality corresponds to what was implemented. "Map of Russian Science" is available at this link http://mapofscience.ru/. Can this be considered a role model? Is this project unique not only in Russia, but also in the world? Try to answer these questions yourself.Not so long ago, the main page of the "Maps" was updated. A red flashing block has been added telling us: “Attention! The system is in trial operation. This probably happened due to a large number negative feedback about the project. If you look at the application for the competition, you will notice that the deadline for this project is the end of 2013. Thus, anything radically corrected in this version for "trial operation" seems unlikely, and we can proceed to the evaluation of the entire project.
The purpose of the project (if anyone did not remember) was “to identify by name those scientists and those small scientific teams (that is, laboratories, scientific groups) that are already working in Russia today at a high international level.” In our opinion, it is impossible to do this using the proposed tools.
Data Coverage
It didn't work out more than it did. Two main bases - the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Web of Science (WoS) - are presented in the range of 2007–2012, and even with a reservation regarding WoS. The data is simply not of current interest(upper bar of the year) and incorrect(lower bar of the year) for the stated main goal. And this despite the fact that access to the WoS database (its part related to Russian scientists) cost the state 40 million rubles (practically without the right to transfer data to the MES).For the rest of the data sources declared in the project, there is also, to put it mildly, some incompleteness. After a long search for leading Russian scientists, it was not possible to find their books, monographs, as well as information on participation in R&D and grants. It can be assumed that these data are either simply not provided in the map of science, or they could not be prepared.
Data quality
In our opinion, this task was a key one in the implementation of the "Map of Russian Science", it was precisely technological part, which was the main difficulty and was supposed to take away the main forces and time. Simply put, the task of the entire "Map" was to reduce, clean and correctly relink the data. Or, as follows from the transcript of the kick-off meeting of the expert groups on the implementation of the Map of Russian Science project, the key block of work was “cleansing and integrating data from various sources.” And, unfortunately, this part did not work out at all. The data was not summarized at all: we are offered either the RSCI or WoS. In fact, we are simply presented with an interface to these two databases, with not very intelligible functionality. It so happened that it was the quality of the data that caused most of the claims from the scientific community. We tried to put them together (but we probably missed something - there are a lot of complaints):- the use of a classifier (rubricator) of scientific areas that is not applicable to existing areas in Russian science;
- arbitrary selection (grouping) of scientific institutions by headings;
- lack of control over the level of random matches;
- discrepancy between numerical indicators and real values (by the number of scientific institutions, by the number of publications in WoS and RSCI, by the number of patents, by the citation index), errors when transferring data from one database to another by operators;
- incorrect selection of "leading" institutions or researchers (top 5), built on the use of arbitrary features that do not have a connection with each other (either data on WoS, or on the RSCI, or alphabetical order, or rubricator, etc.);
- incorrect (incorrect) spelling of full name researcher in both Russian and English spelling systems;
- incorrect (incorrect) affiliation of the researcher;
- lack of separation of namesakes and their correct relationship with scientific direction and scientific institution;
- lack of information about departments of organizations (including faculties of large universities, such as Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University).
Functional
The functionality is also not good. For example, here is how the data correction mechanism is implemented: “The correction of technical errors noticed by users occurs through the provision of a paper version of the comments, certified by the seal of the organization in which the user works.” Meanwhile, the aforementioned transcript states: “The main principle of the project implementation is minimization of efforts on the part of scientists. It is assumed that most of the information in personal accounts will be filled in automatically.So far, not a single person has been found who can clearly explain what information the so-called “heat map” carries. The only, in our opinion, interesting feature is the "collapse map" link at the bottom right, its functionality is at least extraordinary and contains the lion's share of self-irony.
We tried to register in the system to see how it looks from the inside. We were lucky to open an account about a month before writing this review, because currently the registration of new users for some reason is no longer working (it seems that all the polymers were lost).
To register, a scientist must provide his full name, year of birth and email, and then go through the “verification” procedure. This can be done in two ways: by mail or through the so-called SPIN code.
Verification by mail is carried out through a "manual circuit". To avoid this, we decided to master the innovative SPIN code. Most likely, not every reader is familiar with this concept (among us, too, there were such), so let's decipher it.
The SPIN code is the author's personal identification code in the SCIENCE INDEX, an information and analytical system built on the basis of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) data.
We sent an application for a SPIN code by filling out a huge form on the RSCI website for this with several dozen fields and classifiers (in just some 20 minutes), and successfully received the code after two weeks of waiting. Rejoicing at our achievements, we entered the SPIN code in the scientist's profile, after which the "Map" informed us that this information required verification (not again!). Two weeks have passed since the entry, and the account has not yet been verified.
If you had the patience, then you got to your personal account.
Personal Area
Edit in personal account there is nothing special, since it contains only the data that you entered during registration. The authors of the system imply that the rest of the scientist will tell about himself by filling in a considerable number of fields. Note that in Western systems (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar), after registration, the user receives an almost ready-made profile that the system has prepared for him, automatically collecting data from various sources. He can only confirm them and, if necessary, supplement them.
It is doubtful that scientists will voluntarily use a system in which registration alone takes more than 4 weeks. One thing is obvious - "minimization of efforts on the part of scientists" did not work.
The official unsatisfactory assessment of the project is also in line with our findings. “This is a model, this is not even a pilot project”, - said the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Lyudmila Ogorodova (model for 90 million).
Part 4: the reaction of the scientific community
This will be the most concise part of our story. The reaction of the scientific community was sharply negative.
Part 5: Reasons for failure
As follows from the official position of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and numerous reviews of the expert scientific community, the “Map of Science” turned out to be unsatisfactory. Whether it corresponds to the goals of the executed state contract, we will not argue due to the lack of information about it. Another thing is important - how could such a situation be avoided? In our opinion, the key point in this story is that all the data on which this public information system was built are not open.And here we would like to touch upon a very topical issue of open data in science. They simply don't exist. But if they were open, perhaps there would be no need for such a state order. The "Map of Science" could be implemented by any professional developer interested in open data and science. Moreover, there would be several such “maps”, given the corresponding demand from the state and the scientific community.
Let's look at the list of alleged Russian sources for Maps of Science:
- articles in Russian and foreign journals (NEB);
- Russian and foreign patents (FIPS);
- grants (FGBNU NII RINKCE, RFBR, RGNF);
- reports on research and development (CITiS);
- dissertations and abstracts (CITiS);
- publishing books (Russian Book Chamber);
- information about scientific organizations and their subdivisions (including universities and their faculties).
Part 6: How to fix the situation?
