Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
According to Wikipedia “The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century. UDC provides a systematic arrangement of all branches of human knowledge organized as a coherent system in which…
Report on the STSM “Concept Shifts in Knowledge Classification” Venue: eHumanities DANS/KNAW: Amsterdam -The Hague, 4 -10 May 2014 This purpose of this Short Term Scientific Mission meeting was to discuss and plan further research, papers and events dealing with the presentation of evolution of knowledge and shifts in…
The workshop Rich models for complex data took place inNamur, Belgium from May 7-8, 2014. Computational science has entered the era of Big Data, fueled by unparalleled amounts of data coming from high-throughput technologies and electronic records collected by various sensors and communication devices. This trend is particularly visible in…
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…
The main purpose of my STSM in Amsterdam at the eHumanities group was to interact with their researchers on novel ways to visualize science. In that respect, my stay has been very productive, and I would like to thank again my hosts for their kind welcome and their availability. During…
Brief report of the visit of Jan Choloniewski at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) (March 17-30, 2014) based on a STSM grant. I consider my STSM at NIAS a considerable success. Not a spectacular one but of a vital importance for a…
During the time (March 21 – April 2, 2014) that I spent at the Jozef Stefan Institute, I have analyzed social chat networks, as well as the aggregations of nodes into communities. The common analysis through the graph theory is replaced by the simplicial complexes approach due to its essential…
How to declare my costs after being invited to a TD1210 and have attended the meeting? Dear all, despite of all documentation, I get this question quite often. I tried to sketch the workflow (see figure). You have been in touch with the organizer of the meeting informally, and agreed…
I (Sarven Capadisli) am a statistical Linked Data researcher at the E-Government-Institut in Bern University of Applied Sciences, and I’m also working on my PhD under Prof. Sören Auer‘s supervision at University of Bonn. In March I visited the eHumanities group, part of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,…