RISE — Research Information Systems Engineering

A public knowledge base introducing Research Information Systems Engineering: the design and study of information systems that produce scholarly knowledge, with a focus on agentic research pipelines.

Site: https://bhanneke.github.io/RISE/ (deployed via GitHub Pages) License: CC-BY-4.0 Citation: see CITATION.cff

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What is RISE?

RISE names a discipline at the intersection of information systems, research infrastructure, AI/agentic workflows, and open science. A RISE system takes a research input (an idea, an open question, a replication target), combines it with data and prior knowledge, and produces durable outputs (artifacts, papers, replication packages, datasets).

                  ┌─────────────────────────┐
                  │   INPUTS                │
                  │   • human idea          │
                  │   • agentic idea        │
                  │   • research question   │
                  │   • replication target  │
                  └───────────┬─────────────┘
                              │
        ┌─────────┐           ▼           ┌──────────────┐
        │  DATA   │──►  KNOWLEDGE        ◄──│ KNOWLEDGE   │
        │ (raw,   │     PRODUCTION         │ (literature, │
        │ macro,  │  ──────────────────    │  prior work, │
        │ crypto, │  Agentic Research      │  theory,     │
        │ admin,  │     Pipelines          │  methods)    │
        │  …)     │  ──────────────────    │              │
        └─────────┘           │            └──────────────┘
                              ▼
                  ┌─────────────────────────┐
                  │   OUTPUTS               │
                  │   • artifacts (code,    │
                  │     figures, tables)    │
                  │   • papers / preprints  │
                  │   • datasets            │
                  │   • replication reports │
                  └─────────────────────────┘

What's in this repo?

Two curated catalogs and a documentation site that exposes them.

Path	Contents
docs/	The MkDocs site (concept, projects, papers, glossary)
papers/references.bib	BibTeX database of academic references
papers/notes/	One structured markdown note per paper
papers/schema.md	Front-matter schema for paper notes
projects/e2er.yml	Owned project entry (E2ER)
projects/landscape/	External agentic-research projects (Sakana AI Scientist, zeropaper, APE, …)
projects/EVALUATION.md	Standard evaluation rubric used to score every project
projects/VOCABULARY.md	Controlled vocabularies (themes, pipeline stages, architectural features)
scripts/build_indexes.py	Regenerates docs/papers/index.md and docs/projects/index.md from sources

How to read it

• New to the topic? Start with docs/index.md and docs/concept/definition.md.
• Looking for a specific paper? Browse papers/notes/ or the generated index at docs/papers/index.md.
• Comparing systems? See projects/EVALUATION.md for the rubric and the comparison matrix at docs/projects/index.md.

How to contribute

See docs/contributing.md. New paper notes and project entries are welcome via pull request; both must conform to the schemas in papers/schema.md and projects/schema.md.