Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
The Second Annual Knowescape Conference took place November 24-16, 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was organized by Dr. Panayiota Polydoratou from the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. Officials from the university, Vice-President Prof. Panagiotis Tzionas and the Director of the School of Business Administration and Economics Prof. Christos Sarmaniotis…
During the STSM in Amsterdam, I was able to establish connections to various scientists and to get additional ideas, which will help me to pursue my research. I was able to meet with several people at the DANS Institute in The Hague, where I met with developers of the NARCIS…
During my stay in Amsterdam from 11st to the 17th of April 2014 I had the chance to exchange and discuss visualization as well as evaluation opportunities in the field of information seeking. At DANS I talked amongst others to Linda Reijnhoudt, Vesa Akerman, Henk van den Berg, Christophe Guéret…
What have knowledge maps to do with statistical information from the past, recorded on lists while going from door to door back in the past and documented as tables in books for eternity? The Third Annual Meeting of the CEDAR project – one of my projects in Amsterdam – showed…
Iceland has a rich cultural heritage and a very interesting history. At the National Museum of Iceland, I visit the permanent exhibition The Making of a Nation. This exhibit is the most fabulous piece of story telling in a museum I have recently encountered. Based on an undisturbed balance of…
Since 2009 the German Ministry of Research and Education funded a project “Measuring the Diversity of Research”. Over the last four years the Berlin research diversity team: Frank Havemann (PI), Jochen Gläser, Michael Heinz, and Alexander Struck published extensively but also organized each autumn a neat, small scale workshop to brainstorm…
One precondition for knowledge maps and science maps, which aim to be more as ‘just’ visualization of a certain situation at a certain point in time, is to compare them. There are different issues at hand: First, to articulate the reference frame of a specific science map, and to discuss…
Early in the 2000th years so-called science maps entered bibliometrics and scientometrics. (Börner et al. 2003) Mapping the disciplinary structure of the sciences has become a booming business since. Science maps can have different functions: to evaluate institutions and groups (Klavans&Boyack 2010); to characterize funded scientific networks (see Akdag et…
This 7th iteration (2011) of the ongoing exhibition Places and Spaces explores the utility of science maps as visual interfaces to digital libraries to support the selection, navigation, management, and usage of resources by communicating (see website )