Keywords for initial search on databases

[amchagas]

"Open hardware"
"open source hardware"
"open science hardware"
"open labware"
"free and open source hardware"
"low cost"
"frugal"

[amchagas]

Adding "Low cost" and "frugal" to the TOPIC and TITLE search terms explode the hits on "web of science" to >240k, making it quite hard to work with the medata (as WoS for instance only allows 5k entries download at a time),

So changing the terms a bit to :
"open hardware" OR
"open labware" OR
"open equipment" OR
"open source hardware" OR
"open source equipement" OR
"open source labware" OR
"open science hardware" OR
"open science equipment" OR
"open science labware" OR
"free and open source labware" OR
"free and open source hardware" OR
"free and open source equipment" OR
"low cost equipment" OR
"low cost hardware" OR
"low cost labware" OR
"frugal equipment" OR
"frugal hardware" OR
"frugal labware"

leads to ~2.1k entries, which seems a bit more manageable and more likely to contain the entries we need.

[matiasandina]

Does it change "low cost" vs "low-cost"? El lun., 29 jun. 2020 a las 13:53, Andre Maia Chagas (< notifications@github.com>) escribió:

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Adding "Low cost" and "frugal" to the TOPIC and TITLE search terms explode the hits on "web of science" to >240k, making it quite hard to work with the medata (as WoS for instance only allows 5k entries download at a time), So changing the terms a bit to : "open hardware" OR "open labware" OR "open equipment" OR "open source hardware" OR "open source equipement" OR "open source labware" OR "open science hardware" OR "open science equipment" OR "open science labware" OR "free and open source labware" OR "free and open source hardware" OR "free and open source equipment" OR "low cost equipment" OR "low cost hardware" OR "low cost labware" OR "frugal equipment" OR "frugal hardware" OR "frugal labware" leads to ~2.1k entries, which seems a bit more manageable and more likely to contain the entries we need. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABZF2N52NTEHWKTOL74PMC3RZDIIJANCNFSM4N4NGNFA> .

[amchagas]

sorry, completely missed this comment here. no, at least not in web of science

[solstag]

@amchagas

Is #5 (comment) the query for the current bibtex files in /data/sources/?

For now I'm assuming True and adding a modified version of this query to /code/project_definitions.py.

I'm also adding "free hardware and software" as I noticed this got used a couple dozen times.

I'm omitting "free and open source" because it should be caught under "open source".

And I'm keeping "low cost" commented out. I think if we're going to discuss availability of hardware designs, then "low cost" doesn't make much sense because it's too broad. It's quite different from "frugal", which was rarely used before it became a buzzword associated with OSH.

Check out this query which looks for "low cost" associations but exclude all other OSH terms, and let me know if you think we're losing meaningful things by removing these from our list:

https://www.scopus.com/results/results.uri?src=s&st1=&st2=&sot=b&sdt=b&origin=searchbasic&rr=&sl=401&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%20((%22low%20cost%20equipment%22%20OR%20%22low%20cost%20hardware%22%20OR%20%22low%20cost%20labware%22)%20AND%20NOT%20(%22open%20equipment%22%20OR%20%22open%20hardware%22%20OR%20%22open%20labware%22%20OR%20%22open%20source%20equipment%22%20OR%20%22open%20source%20hardware%22%20OR%20%22open%20source%20labware%22%20OR%20%22open%20science%20equipment%22%20OR%20%22open%20science%20hardware%22%20OR%20%22open%20science%20labware%22%20OR%20%22frugal%20equipment%22%20OR%20%22frugal%20hardware%22%20OR%20%22frugal%20labware%22%20OR%20%22free%20hardware%20and%20software%22))

[amchagas]

Hi @solstag!

sorry for the delay.
thanks for putting this information together. I took a look at the query, and from a glimpse, does not look like we are losing much?
But it is a bit hard to tell as there are >2k entries on this one as well.

On the other hand, we can make the argument, as you mentioned, that low cost does not mean open, and ends up broadening up things too much...

[solstag]

Good. If we can build a query that excludes most noise, we don't need to clean the noise afterwards if we want to talk about proportions. In the case of frugal at least if there's noise it is an interesting research question: "how is frugal being used for osh versus for non-osh?".