[Asis-l] CfP: Mapping Humanity's Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Domain

[Katy Borner]

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                                     Call For Participation
"Mapping Humanity's Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Domain"

This CfP is also accessible as Web page and PDF:
http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/research/AAG2005/CfPMappingKnowledge.htm

http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/research/AAG2005/CfPMappingKnowledge.pdf

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Session Title:  Mapping Humanity's Knowledge and Expertise in the
Digital Domain

Session Organizers: Katy Börner, Indiana University
André Skupin, University of New Orleans

Place & Time:  101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers
Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005

Sponsors:   Cartography and GIS specialty groups

Description:
This session will bring together leading researchers and practitioners
that aim to develop techniques, tools, and infrastructures to map
humanity's knowledge and expertise for the improvement of science and
education.

Knowledge and expertise is typically extracted from digitally available
literature, news, computer mediated communication data as well as from
information about the producers and consumers of those data sets.
Advanced data analysis techniques in combination with spatial metaphors,
geographic principles, and cartographic methods are applied to organize,
visualize, and communicate the semantic relationships inherent in the
data.

The ultimate goal of this work might be an interactive cartographic map
of all of science, with continents representing the major research areas
such as, e.g., biology or physics, dots denoting major authors, PIs,
papers or news, dynamically evolving research frontiers, blinking 'hot'
papers and topics, etc. This map could be used to teach and understand
the evolving structure of all of science, to identify major experts, to
find and read the most relevant papers and news, to see the effects of
resource allocation decisions, to study social networks, etc. Last but
not least, it would provide a unique bird's eye view of major experts in
specific areas and mankind's knowledge in general.

Some of the leading-edge research on this topic is found where geography
intersects with information/library science, computer science, and
cognitive science. We invite papers on the broad foundations,
computational methods, software systems, and evaluation of such data
analyses and visualizations, as they have emerged in this
interdisciplinary endeavor.

Session participants: In addition to geographers, we are looking for
speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to
digital libraries, database design, data analysis/mining, information
visualization, interface design, and cognitive science.

Instructions: If you are interested to participate in this session,
please send a structured position paper to Katy Börner
(katy at indiana.edu) and André Skupin (askupin at uno.edu) by October 1,
2004. If possible, please use the template provided here:
http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/research/AAG2005/PositionPaper.doc
We will review the submissions and send out notifications by October 8.
Then, for official registration and submission of paper abstracts (max.
250 words) to the AAG, please refer to the AAG's Call for Papers
(http://www.aag.org/AnnualMeetings/Denver2005/call_4_papers.cfm). Upon
finishing your registration, please forward your participant number to
André Skupin (askupin at uno.edu) by October 15, 2004. Depending on the
number of submissions, we may organize more than one session.

Post-Session Publication:  We are planning to invite session speakers to
submit full, competitively peer-reviewed papers for a special issue of a
suitable scientific journal.



-- 
Katy Borner, Assistant Professor
Information Science & Cognitive Science
Indiana University, SLIS
10th Street & Jordan Avenue     Phone:  (812) 855-3256   Fax: -6166
Main Library 019                E-mail: katy at indiana.edu
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy

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