Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
© Almila Akdag, Cheng Gao, Krzysztof Suchecki, Andrea Scharnhorst
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Training School of KnowEscape – COST Action TD1210 Simulating Knowledge Dynamics – Training and Work in Progress Federico II University, Naples, Italy, 19–22 May 2015 This four day event combined the presentation and discussion of progress in simulating knowledge dynamics with a summer school on SKIN concepts, methods and operational…
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…
A conference at the EU Regional Representation Bonn, Germany, 11–12 May 2015 Workshop URL: http://www.ea-aw.org/events/ea-annual-conferences/ea-annual-conference-2015.html This conference was about a tension – the tension between the obvious necessities of planning and the opacity of its impacts. Planning is the process of contemplating and organising the set of activities and measures…
The workshop took place April 20-21 and during the two days this group continued its collaborative work on the comparison of algorithms. Since the last meeting September 2014 all involved group worked together at a shared dataset – labeled as The Berlin dataset – a set of publications and their…
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…
A report on STSM-TD 1210-24192 at GRAPES. Liege, Belgium Host : Dr. Marcel Ausloos February 5 – 11, 2015 The adoption of bibliometric criteria are assumed as basis for the evaluation of researchers. Often, they are based on the calculus of impact factors (IF), and can give rise to variety…
A report on STSM-TD 1210-24194 at CEVIPOF- Center for Political Research, Sciences Po and CNRS, Paris, France Host : Dr. Serge Galam January 29 – February 5, 2015 Main item The idea of the visit raised when talking – at a previous meeting – on the manuscript “On the usage…
Evolution and variation of classification systems – how stable is the organization of knowledge and how diverse is its representations? Toward a Metadata Observatory Announcement of a workshop, March 4-5, 2015, DANS & eHumanities group, Amsterdam PROGRAM -> http://knowescape.org/evolution-and-variation-of-classification-systems-knowescape-workshop-march-4-5-2015-amsterdam/ For digital libraries and archives mapping schemas, ontologies, all different kind…
The success of an information system depends mainly on its ability to properly support interaction between users and information. Current information systems, however, show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question. Studies in interactive information…