Research Information Systems Engineering¶
RISE is 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.
The repository maintains three curated catalogs:
- an academic-papers database of structured notes on the literature that frames RISE;
- a projects database that evaluates agentic research systems against a standard rubric;
- a skills database of reusable Markdown skill files curated from open agentic-research projects.
The RISE pipeline at a glance¶
A RISE system is any information system that implements some non-trivial portion of this diagram. Different systems differ in:
- which inputs they accept (some take only a fully specified RQ; others ideate from scratch);
- how broadly they cover the pipeline (single-stage tools vs. end-to-end pipelines);
- how autonomously the pipeline operates (copilot ↔ society of agents);
- what artifacts they produce, and to what reproducibility standard.
The projects catalog scores every system on these dimensions using the evaluation rubric.
How to use this site¶
| If you are… | Start at |
|---|---|
| New to the topic | Concept → Definition |
| Looking for the diagram explained | Concept → Pipeline anatomy |
| Surveying existing systems | Projects |
| Looking for the literature | Papers |
| Looking for reusable agent skills | Skills |
| Wanting to contribute | Contributing |
Provenance¶
This knowledge base is curated by Björn Hanneke (Goethe University Frankfurt), with research and evaluation supported by Claude Code (Anthropic) — project audits, paper-note drafting, PDF-text extraction, and rubric scoring are produced through Claude Code workflows under the curator's review.
Hobby project — not (yet) a scientific contribution. RISE is a living catalog assembled in the open. Claims, scorings, and classifications reflect the curator's current best-effort understanding of fast-moving primary sources; they have not been peer-reviewed, and the rubric (v0.2) is itself a working artifact. Use it as a navigable map of the field, not as a citable evaluation of any individual project. Corrections and additions welcome via pull request.
Licensed CC-BY-4.0; please cite per
CITATION.cff.