Academic Year 2026-2027
The module follows the life cycle of a research project: first finding and synthesising existing work, relying on open bibliographic databases and on artificial intelligence tools without trusting them blindly; then communicating your own results in a durable, citable and assessable form. Each session ends with an assignment on your own project topic.
From a question to a scientific contribution: methods, evidence and sharing knowledge, illustrated through my work on data integration, urban data and knowledge graphs.
5 slides with detailed public explanations.
View Introduction (in French)What a literature review is; open bibliographic databases (OpenAlex, Wikidata, Scholia); mapping a field with Connected Papers; reading and summarising with large language models; conversational research agents and RAG; verification, reference management and integrity.
View Lecture (in French)Papers, journals, workshops, conferences and proceedings; peer review; persistent identifiers (DOI, ORCID, SWHID); publishing and archiving software with Software Heritage; journal and conference rankings, DORA and research assessment; negative results and open science.
View Lecture (in French)Open index of the scholarly literature, and free knowledge base queryable in SPARQL; Scholia profiles generated from Wikidata.
OpenAlexGraphs of similar papers, and conversational agents that answer from retrieved papers.
Connected PapersFrench national open archive, universal source code archive, and persistent identifier for researchers.
HALComputer science conference ranking, journal ranking, and the declaration on research assessment.
COREFree and open-source reference manager: import by DOI, PDF and note storage, BibTeX export.
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