Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
© Almila Akdag, Cheng Gao, Krzysztof Suchecki, Andrea Scharnhorst
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© Linda Reijnhoudt, Michael J. Stamper, Katy Borner, Chris Baars, Andrea Scharnhorst
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Classification and Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge – International UDC Seminar 2013 – will take place on Thursday 24 – Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013. The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in…
What do visitors of a bookshop? One might wonder what a presentation about how group of people visit a bookshop has to do with TPDL? How libraries are used a social place and can become more attractive and possibly also adapt their social function is an on-going research question and…
The conference Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries is one of the main venue for Digital Library Scholarship. Milena Dobreva, our MC member from Malta, initiated a specific plenary event, where five COST Actions, relevant for Digital Libraries, presented themselves. Touradj Ebrahimi presented Qualinet (IC1003), an Action which develops models…
The disadvantage of “hanging around” in science and on conferences for quite some time is that one cannot escape always of deja-vu impressions. Being at the closing of this very lively, ambitious, driven, almost missionary conference of the Open Knowledge Foundation devoted to Open Data and participatory practices in science…
In June (vol. 12, issue 1, 2013) the journal Mind&Society published a special issue on the topic “Cultural and Cognitive Dimensions of Innovation” (ed. by Petra Ahrweiler and Riccardo Viale) which article have been made free of access between October 1 and December 31, 2013. (see http://goo.gl/LaCqC). Several members of …
Each COST domain holds an Annual Progress Conference, where chairs from all ongoing COST Actions report to each other and the Domain Committee. KnowEscape belongs to the Materials, Physics an Nanosciences Domain (MPNS) with currently 38 Actions – among them 6 TransDomain Actions. Most near to KnowEscape is TD1201 Colour…
Iceland has a rich cultural heritage and a very interesting history. At the National Museum of Iceland, I visit the permanent exhibition The Making of a Nation. This exhibit is the most fabulous piece of story telling in a museum I have recently encountered. Based on an undisturbed balance of…
Since 2009 the German Ministry of Research and Education funded a project “Measuring the Diversity of Research”. Over the last four years the Berlin research diversity team: Frank Havemann (PI), Jochen Gläser, Michael Heinz, and Alexander Struck published extensively but also organized each autumn a neat, small scale workshop to brainstorm…
The first annual meeting of Action will take a place at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, from Monday, 18 November until Wednesday, 20 November, 2013. A Management Committee meeting will also be held within this period. The four keynote speakers of the event will be Guido Caldarelli (Institute for Advanced Studies…
The workshop “Moving from mere open data to the creation of knowledge spaces” that will take place in Geneva during OKCON on September 19 is looking for speakers! Have a look at the following call and consider sending in something. More information can be found on the event page http://lanyrd.com/2013/knowescape/…