Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
Report of the COST TD1210 Workshop “The role of knowledge maps for access to Digital Archives“ Some COST funded meetings have the essence of COST all in a nutshell; and Milena Dobreva as a Local Organizer seems to have a specific gift to bring this to life. Two years ago…
Report of my STSM at the Institute of Physics Belgrade during August 16-22, 2015, hosted by Dr. Marija Mitrović Dankulov First of all, I have to say that the week of my STSM was far beyond my already very high expectations. I arrived on Sunday 16th of August at Belgrade, and…
From March 4-5, 2015 a two-day international workshop took place in Amsterdam, hosted by the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The title of the workshop was Evolution and variation of classification systems – how stable is the organization of knowledge and how diverse is…
The success of an information system depends mainly on its ability to properly support interaction between users and information. Current information systems, however, show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question. Studies in interactive information…
Report on the visit of Dr. Milena Dobreva to University of Cyprus, Nikosia, Cypris, on November 2-8, 2014 based on the grant STSM-TD1210-21800 Title of STSM: Citizen Science in the Humanities as a Novel Method for Engagement of Citizens with eInfrastructures The main purpose of this STSM was to discuss…
Report: COST STSM TD1210 20984; 7th to 18th October 2014 Short-term mission 20984 took place as planned. At the outset we began examining large financial data sets from two complementary perspectives. The first sought to examine the statistical nature of the Wells Wilder index and the associated Relative Strength Index…
Wikipedia network data I have visited Amsterdam and den Haag during my STSM from 20.05.2014 to 24.05.2014. During the visit to DANS institute in den Haag I have discussed the issues with depositing the dataset containing Wikipedia network data in DANS archive with Emilie Kraaikamp. Thanks to the discussion, we…
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…
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…