WG 2: Theory of knowledge spaces

Report of the Budapest Workshop “Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics” by Sandor Soos

Report of the Budapest Workshop “Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics” by Sandor Soos

Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics Data and algorithm – comparison of approaches Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 29-30. Aug. 2016.   Conference summary The timely problem From science studies to research evaluation to science policy, there is an increasing need for trustworthy information…

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Budapest Workshop “Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics – August 29-30, 2016”

Budapest Workshop “Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics – August 29-30, 2016”

As first working group meeting (WG 2,3,4) Knowescape starts its activities in the last year. Please find below the programme, and a pdf with all details. The workshop builds on a number of activities the COST Action Knowescape TD1210 has supported related to questions such as “What is a topic…

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STSM – Structure of Phase-Space Manifolds Underlying Collective Dynamics of Knowledge. A visit at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. Report from Miroslav Andjelkovic

STSM – Structure of Phase-Space Manifolds Underlying Collective Dynamics of Knowledge. A visit at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. Report from Miroslav Andjelkovic

MSc. Miroslav Andjelkovic’s report about a Short Term Scientific Mission at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, TD1210-140716-078788 Large Structure of Phase-Space Manifolds Underlying Collective Dynamics of Knowledge Creation and Other Online Social Processes As part of this STSM, in the period from 14.07.2016. to 24.07.2016., I worked at the Department…

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STSM – A systematic study of metrics. Visit at DANS, KNAW. A report of Souzana Maranga and Dimitrios Iliadis

STSM – A systematic study of metrics. Visit at DANS, KNAW. A report of Souzana Maranga and Dimitrios Iliadis

A systematic study of metrics and evidence suitable for institutions which operate in areas of high interdisciplinarity 9-17 July 2016, Dimitrios Iliadis, Souzana Maranga Funded by the COST Action TD1210 KNOWeSCAPE, our short term mission to The Netherlands, from 9 – 17 July, aimed to study metrics and evidence suitable…

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STSM – Organization of knowledge in large datasets. A visit at the University of Agriculture in Crakow. Report by Giulia Rotundo.

STSM – Organization of knowledge in large datasets. A visit at the University of Agriculture in Crakow. Report by Giulia Rotundo.

Organisation of knowledge in large datasets: clustering algorithms and strategies Visit at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Cracow, Poland July 3-13, 2016 Host: Prof. P. Wezyk Data mining is an ubiquitous theme that is present in many fields of science: surely in pattern recognition, classification of images, detecting…

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Call for papers – Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics – August 29-30, 2016

Call for papers – Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics – August 29-30, 2016

Identification, location and temporal evolution of topics Data and algorithm – comparison of approaches This workshop builds on a series of workshops in TD1210 in Berlin, Amsterdam, Istanbul about research diversity and the metrical challenge to delineate topics. At the Budapest workshop, experts are invited to present their approaches to…

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STSM – Visit to the HUB Institute for Library Sciences “Same data, different results” – report of Rob Koopman

STSM – Visit to the HUB Institute for Library Sciences “Same data, different results” – report of Rob Koopman

Period: 2016-04-24 to 2016-04-30 STSM Applicant: Mr Rob Koopman, OCLC EMEA BV, Leiden (NL) Host: Frank Havemann HUB The STSM of Rob Koopman was devoted to discussing the problems to define topics using bibliometrics traces. Although, this problem is by no way new there are still many competing approaches, which…

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STSM Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes (II) by Valeria Aman

STSM Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes (II)  by Valeria Aman

Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes   STSM of Valeria Aman (PhD student, DZHW Berlin, Germany) at INGENIO (Valencia, Spain) April 4-8, 2016   In my PhD project, I will develop and apply bibliometric methods for studying knowledge transfers effected by…

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STSM – Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes by Jochen Gläser

STSM – Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes by Jochen Gläser

Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes STSM of Jochen Gläser (TU Berlin, Germany) at INGENIO (Valencia, Spain) 2016-03-30 to 2016-04-09 One of the enduring problems in research on the impact of governance on research content is the difficulty – if not…

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STSM – Algorithmic Biases and Digital Divides by Jahna Otterbacher

STSM – Algorithmic Biases and Digital Divides by Jahna Otterbacher

Algorithmic Biases and Digital Divides: STSM of Jahna Otterbacher to the University of Sheffield Dates: 2 – 8 April 2016 Host: Prof. Paul Clough, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK Modern, networked information services (e.g., search, recommendation, social media “news feeds”) make extensive use of algorithmic curation processes, designed to…

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