It is nearly impossible for a scientist to process all relevant information to one's field of research. Due to “antique”, document-based knowledge transmission methods, scientists are deriving hypotheses from a smaller and smaller fraction of our collective knowledge.  It seems that science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities. But what if we could build a Science Knowledge Graph that contains all scientific knowledge and one day will be able to reason, retrieve relevant information, detect scientific gaps and deduce new knowledge? How would such a Knowledge Graph look like and how would we use it? Can we even reach such a deep manifestation of humanity’s collective intelligence?

Interview with Prog. Sören Auer, Director & Head of Research at TIB, University of Hannover and pioneer in the semantic web movement.