Plug-and-play macroscopes

Börner, Katy

doi:10.1145/1897852.1897871

Cited by 86 publications

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“…The tool's OSGi/CIShell core architecture makes it possible for domain scientists to contribute new algorithms written in a variety of programming languages using a plug-andplay macroscope approach (Börner 2011).…”

Section: The Sci2 Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open data and open code for big science of science studies

2014

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Historically, science of science (Sci2) studies have been performed by single investigators or small teams. As the size and complexity of data sets and analyses scales up, a ''Big Science'' approach (Price, Little science, big science, 1963) is required that exploits the expertise and resources of interdisciplinary teams spanning academic, government, and industry boundaries. Big Sci2 studies utilize ''big data'', i.e., large, complex, diverse, longitudinal, and/or distributed datasets that might be owned by different stakeholders. They apply a systems science approach to uncover hidden patterns, bursts of activity, correlations, and laws. They make available open data and open code in support of replication of results, iterative refinement of approaches and tools, and education. This paper introduces a database-tool infrastructure that was designed to support big Sci2 studies. The open access Scholarly Database (http://sdb.cns.iu.edu) provides easy access to 26 million paper, patent, grant, and clinical trial records. The open source Sci2 tool (http:// sci2.cns.iu.edu) supports temporal, geospatial, topical, and network studies. The scalability of the infrastructure is examined. Results show that temporal analyses scale linearly with the number of records and file size, while the geospatial algorithm showed quadratic growth. The number of edges rather than nodes determined performance for network based algorithms.

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Section: The Sci2 Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open data and open code for big science of science studies

2014

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“…The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science (http://sci2.cns.iu.edu). It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels (Börner 2011). The project of Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was carried out from 1994 to 1999 and the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) was carried out from 1999 to 2005.…”

Section: Spatial Display and Basic Spatial Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applications and researches of geographic information system technologies in bibliometrics

Wang

et al. 2013

Earth Sci Inform

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Although the research and application of a geographic information system (GIS) in bibliometrics remains in its initial stage, several valuable attempts have been made in recent years. This paper provides our overview regarding this area. We first reviewed the spatial information mining derived from literature, including structured and unstructured data. The spatial display and the basic spatial operations for the geographic information derived from literature were then introduced, demonstrating that GIS can be directly used to construct digital libraries. Some literature database websites have begun to utilize WEBGIS to display the spatial distribution of an author's location. Additionally, the spatial distribution information can be displayed in various modes with other specialized tools. Potential spatial analyses in bibliometrics were then discussed, introducing geostatistical and buffer analyses as case studies. Finally, several bibliometric indicators attached with research units were investigated. When the quantitative research index units are linked with the research spatial position, they can be displayed, queried and retrieved spatially. Future work to advance the application and research of GIS in bibliometrics is still warranted.

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“…The Octopus workflow treats both models and analysis results as data that can be transformed and visualised. The Octopus implementation architecture and data-centric approach is similar to that of the macroscopic tools [12] and, more specific, the CIShell [16] as described by Börner. • The Octopus API (application programming interface) consists of several parts.…”

Section: Implementation Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%