Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
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…
Scientific report of the STSM at ISI Torino, 15-28.03.2014 In the last few years, the continuous development of ICT has led to a change of paradigm, sometimes called Big Data, associated to a drastic increase in data collection methods and computing power. In the social sciences, it is now possible,…
The Lorentz Center (Leiden, The Netherlands) is well known for providing a special environment for scientific collaboration, and is therefore booked long time in advance for workshops for which grants there is a strong competition. The participants of the week-long workshops are provided with an office space – to be…
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…
Report of the visit of Dr. Veslava Osinska at the University of Amsterdam on March 22 – 28, 2014 based on a STSM grant During the STSM I had an opportunity to get detailed knowledge about the multidisciplinary course “Show Me the Data” organized by University of Amsterdam (UvA) and…
Let me start with the most important note to myself: do not go to Lucca in February. Ever. It rains. Then it rains some more. And it is cold. Really cold. Then the second most important note: go to Lucca again. At your earliest convenience. Make sure to pick up…
First I would like to express my warmest thanks to Peter Mutschke, and to my visit co-ordinator Andrea Scharnhorst for their continuous support and the opportunity of this Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) in the Netherlands in the frame of the KNOWeSCAPE COST Action. My stay in the Netherlands during…
Here is a belated post about our first joint group meeting, which is inspired by the recent blogpost of Emilia Gomez, one of our invited speakers. Before telling you about her talk, let me first give you a summary of the meeting itself. It took place at the end of October in…
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….