Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
Future of Peer Review and Open Access, Mainz A report about the “2016 Annual EA Conference: “Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis. The role of peer review and open access in university knowledge dissemination and evaluation” By Andrea Scharnhorst Science in transition is the name of an initiative of scientists from Dutch…
Education is an important aspect of society and assessing the progress made by learners is key to appreciating, validating and if need be improving the educational system in place. Determining how to best assess learning outcomes continues to be a challenge for teachers and policy makers alike. From collaborative problem…
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…
This report is also available at http://dans-labs.github.io/RESplorer/ together with the source code of RESplorer. About RESplorer RESplorer is the outcome of Christophe Guéret (@cgueret) experiencing with Acropolis during a KNOWeSCAPE Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the BBC Media Centre between June 1th and June 5th 2015. Acropolis is at the…
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…
Report on COST TD1210 Workshop Quantifying scienti c impact: networks, measures, insights? February 12-13, 2015 Villa Hatt, Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Schweitzer Chair of Systems Design ETH Zurich Switzerland fschweitzer@ethz.ch Scientometrics, and quantitative studies of science in general, attract significant attention both from researchers and stakeholders. Importantly, they already…
The DERI institute of the National University of Ireland, in Galway, is one of the biggest Semantic Web groups around. Their research spans across most Semantic Web areas, and their project are quite practical in nature: solving real-world problems involving the Semantic Web. My choice to visit DERI was a…
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…
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…