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april 06, 2004
Mapping Knowledge Domains
Pressreleasen Here there be data: Mapping the landscape of science berättar om forskning kring hur man visualiserar vetenskaper och dess tidskrifter.
The April 6, 2004, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) features nearly 20 articles by some of tomorrow's mapmakers. Representing the computer, information and cognitive sciences, mathematics, geography, psychology and other fields, these researchers present attempts to create maps of science from the ever-growing and constantly evolving ocean of digital data.
"Science is specializing at high speed, which leads to increasing fragmentation and reinvention," said Katy Börner of Indiana University. "Maps of publication databases or other data sources can help show how scientists and scientific results are interconnected."
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Several of the papers describe ways to analyze article collections and map out landscapes that humans can view. Some methods, such as that proposed by Simon Dennis, "read" scientific articles and use a deep understanding of the content as the basis for a map. Other methods use relationship networks between the articles, such as citation of other papers, as the basis for a map.
Här finns lite större versioner av bilderna (rätt stora är de).
Många av papren verkar spännande och finns online på PNAS Online. En fullständig lista över de aktuella artiklarna: Mapping Knowledge Domains. (Jag tror inte att det kräver någon registrering, i så fall så är det kostnadsfritt).
Ett litet urval:
Jonathan Aizen , Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Antal Novak: Traffic-based feedback on the web
Mark Newman: Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration.
Via EurekAlert!.
Posted by hakank at april 6, 2004 09:17 EM Posted to Statistik/data-analys