Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
Rationale Systems to organise our knowledge are as old as knowledge production itself. Today we talk about knowledge graphs, and in them library classifications stay next to domain-specific controlled vocabulary, and domain specific ontologies. Waving all this structured information into one connected graph requires interoperability of data and metadata schema,…
Publishing data: exploring publishing ventures such as data journals, linking data and visualizations in publications in an integrated way Panayiota Polydoratou Funded by the COST Action TD1210 KNOWeSCAPE, the short term scientific mission (STSM) ran from 18 to 24 December. The STSM was hosted by Prof. Rauber and the Information…
Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval: Creating Knowledge through Research Synergies Judit Bar-Ilan, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, Andrea Scharnhorst, Marcus John, Philipp Mayr, Dietmar Wolfram This panel brings together experts in bibliometrics and information retrieval to discuss how each of these two important areas of information science can help to inform the…
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…
Data management at a commercial environment: conducting a mini data audit on the data produced by the Times of Malta Host: Professor Milena Dobreva, University of Malta Duration: 04 – 11, July 2016 First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst, Dr. Panayiota Polydoratou,…
STSM Report: Visualization of LOD Laundromat Data by Suzanne Tolmeijer, VU A report on STSM-TD1210 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Host: Dr. Katy Börner Duration: April 15-24, 2016 The Knowledge Representation research group at the VU University in Amsterdam, chaired by Frank van Harmelen, has a project about the semantic…
STSM “Data analysis and visualization in the agricultural domain” realized on TU Vienna in the period 25.03 – 17.04.2016. First, I want to express my gratitude to Prof. Andreas Rauber (TU Vienna) and Dr Andrea Scharnhorst (Chair of the COST Action TD1210) for possibility they gave me to advance scientific…
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…
Report of the STSM by Stanislava Gardašević at University of Malta Visit to Milena Dobreva, 2016-03-16 to 2016-03-25 University Malta One of the major roles of libraries and librarians is to offer to the public new ways to store and discover information, as nowadays this public has become very active in…
Visualization of Library Data for the Purpose of Discovery Layer Report on the STSM of Milan Cvetić Visit at University of Malta, 16 to 25 March, 2016 When I think of cultural heritage, Malta and its capital city Valletta is one of the first places that come to my mind….