Science 2.0 - Science Barcamp Vienna

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Science and Knowledge Management“One of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity ofbooks; they doth so overcharge the world that it is notable to digest the abundance of idle matter that isevery day hatched and brought forth into the world. “Barnaby Rich 1613 (cited after Price)Author of 26 booksBarnaby Rich Effect:“It„s always the other author(s) who publishes toomuch and “pollutes“, “floods”, “eutroficates” theliterature, never me”Braun and Zsindely 1985 2 © Know-Center 2011

Science and Knowledge ManagementInformation overload is not a contemporary problemScience has been growing exponentially for the last 400years (Price 1961)Still true for: Papers (Larsen/von Ins 2010) Scientists (NSF 2010) 3 Price 1961 extended by Leydesdorff (2008) © Know-Center 2011

Science and Knowledge ManagementConsequences Simultaneous/repeated discoveries Scientific paper fails (largely) as a means of knowledge transferPractices “Invisible colleges” (Robert K. Merton) Knowledge transfer through collaboration rather than papers 4 © Know-Center 2011

Science and the Web The Web (2.0) shapes and changes research practices = Science 2.0 5 © Know-Center 2011Kraker P. & Lindstaedt S. (2011): Research Practices on the Web in the Field of Technology Enhanced Learning

Science 2.0 for ScientometricsScientometrics: Quantitative analysis of science using bibliographies Evaluation of science Mapping of scienceWeb 2.0 Artefacts earlier available Contains additional information about the readerExamples Link analysis Analysis of (micro-)blogs, social bookmarking systems… 6 © Know-Center 2011

Trend Detection using TEL Twitter Data http://stellar.know-center.tugraz.at/vis 7Kraker P., Wagner S., Jeanquartier F., Lindstaedt S.(2011): On the Way to a Science Intelligence: Visualizing TEL © Know-Center 2011for Trend Detection

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