Making sense of education indicators

eHumanities group Joan Muyskenweg 25, Amsterdam

Education is one of the most important aspect of a society and learning is a life long process. Having personal insights into what is being learn and how it is learnt would be a good way to appreciate this process and eventually influence it to make it more efficient. Yet...

STSM – Visualization of Library Data for the Purpose of Discovery Layer

Valetta Valetta, Malta

STSM Applicant: Mr Milan Cvetic, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade (RS), milan.cvetic@nb.rs STSM Topic: Visualization of Library Data for the Purpose of Discovery Layer Host: Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Msida (MT), milena.dobreva@um.edu.mt Research on literature of user Studies in interaction and discovery of data from heterogeneous resources that are...

STSM – Requirements for visualization of Citizen Science data modeled as an ontology

Valetta Valetta, Malta

STSM Applicant: Ms Stanislava Gardasevic, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade (RS), stanislava.gardasevic@nb.rs STSM Topic: Requirements for visualization of Citizen Science data modeled as Ontology Host: Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Msida (MT), milena.dobreva@um.edu.mt During the period of 10 days STSM supervised by Professor Milena Dobreva from University of Malta, the...

STSM – Data analysis and visualization in the agricultural domain

Institut for Softwaretechnik and Interactive Systems TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

STSM Applicant: Dr Aleksandra Figurek, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka (BA), aleksandra.figurek@agrofabl.org STSM Topic: Data analysis and visualization in the agricultural domain Host: Andreas Rauber, Institut for Softwaretechnik and Interactive Systems, Wien (AT), rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at   STSM at TU Vienna will be realized throught scientific activities with the aim to...

STSM – Algorithmic Biases and Digital Divides

Information School. University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom

The explosion of digital media has led to an increasing reliance on information retrieval (and recommendation) algorithms. From Web search to sharing in social media platforms, members of the public rely on retrieval and filtering mechanisms to make sense of large volumes of content. However, most users have little idea...

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

Ingenio [CSIC-UPV], Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, Spain

STSM Applicant: Ms Valeria Aman, DZHW, Berlin (DE), aman@forschungsinfo.de STSM Topic: Expanding the use of science maps in sociological analyses by positioning actors in knowledge landscapes Host: Ismael Rafols, Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento, Valencia (ES) Visualisations of thematic structures in science are increasingly used in...

STSM – Visualization of Linked Open Data Laundromat

Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University Bloomington 1320 E. 10th St, Bloomington, IN, United States

The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning research group at the VU University Amsterdam has a project, the LOD Laundromat, where a significant subset of the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud is crawled and converted in a standards-compliant way to remove any inconsistencies such as syntax errors, duplicates and black nodes. So...

STSM Visit to the HUB Institute for Library Sciences “Same data, different results”

Humboldt University iSchool Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Germany

STSM Applicant: Mr Rob Koopman, OCLC EMEA BV, Leiden (NL) STSM Topic: Visit to the HUB Institute for Library Sciences for the project “Same data, different results” Host: Frank Havemann HUB Period: 2016-04-24 to 2016-04-30 The visit to the HUB Institute for Library Sciences is devoted to the problem of...

STSM Data management at a commercial environment: conducting a mini data audit on the data produced by the Times of Malta

Valetta Valetta, Malta

Period: 2016-07-03 to 2016-07-11 COST Action: TD1210 STSM type: Regular (from Greece to Malta) STSM Applicant: Mr Sotirios Sismanis, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (EL) STSM Applicant: Ms Elli Papadopoulou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (EL) STSM Topic: Data management at a commercial environment: conducting a...

STSM A systematic study of metrics and evidence suitable for institutions which operate in areas with high interdisciplinarity

DANS Anna van Sasksenlaan 51, The Hague, Netherlands

Period: 2016-07-09 to 2016-07-17 COST Action: TD1210 STSM type: (from Greece to Netherlands) STSM Applicant: Ms Souzana Maranga, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (EL) STSM Applicant: Mr Dimitrios Iliadis, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Sindos (EL), STSM Topic: A systematic study of metrics and evidence suitable for...