Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
Workshop, 7 November 2013 We live in a complex world. Yet complexity is hard to pin down. In fact, it is quite complex to make the notion precise, making it in some way a self-describing word. Generally, complexity is thought to exist somewhere between random and regular, and consists of…
The making of KnowEscape has been thoroughly inspired by the Places&Spaces enterprise. Now the call for the 10th Iteration is out (see http://www.scimaps.org/call/ ) and please do note the passage “Given the topic of this iteration, two types of submissions are welcome: (1) Photographs or conceptual sketches of future innovative…
The start of KnowEscape – story for the eMagazine of the eHumanities group KNAW Amsterdam COST Actions are one of the oldest instruments for funding research collaboration in Europe, and this is still something one can feel. A COST Action has money exclusively for meetings, exchange, and conferences, and reimbursement takes…
In a couple of days we will meet for our First Annual Conference at Aalto University in Finland. The conference features about 35 presentations, which have been all peer reviewed, and represent the wide spectrum of scientific activities and competences in the Action. We proudly welcome as keynote speakers Ginestra…
A narrative of Marcel Ausloos around his Short-term-scientific-mission in TD1210 KnowEscape to the eHumanities Group at the KNAW and encounters around a workshop on complexity-in-the-digital-humanities (see also here) It was dark, it was raining, it was cold; I pulled my suitcase with my left arm, carried my brief case with the computer…
In KnowEscape we have an unique combination of experts from vary different scientific fields. A red line and common shared interest is the discovery of structure and patterns in traces of cultural heritage. To analyze and understand human culture (past, present, future) is probably the biggest challenge for complexity research….
The movement toward Open Data and the increasing adoption of computational techniques by many scientific fields is leading to the creation of several on-line knowledge spaces. Be it the list of courses provided by a university or the collection of a library, these knowledge spaces are very diverse in nature…
Classification and Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge – International UDC Seminar 2013 – will take place on Thursday 24 – Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013. The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in…
What do visitors of a bookshop? One might wonder what a presentation about how group of people visit a bookshop has to do with TPDL? How libraries are used a social place and can become more attractive and possibly also adapt their social function is an on-going research question and…
The conference Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries is one of the main venue for Digital Library Scholarship. Milena Dobreva, our MC member from Malta, initiated a specific plenary event, where five COST Actions, relevant for Digital Libraries, presented themselves. Touradj Ebrahimi presented Qualinet (IC1003), an Action which develops models…