On September 9, 2015 the COST Association and the National Rectors’ conferences of France (CPU), Germany (HRK), Hungary (MRK), Poland (CRASP) and the Netherlands (VSNU) hosted an Exploratory Workshop "Integrating the stake of rare disciplines at the European level", in Brussels (Belgium). This workshop was held with the participation of…

Report of the COST TD1210 Workshop "The role of knowledge maps for access to Digital Archives" Some COST funded meetings have the essence of COST all in a nutshell; and Milena Dobreva as a Local Organizer seems to have a specific gift to bring this to life. Two years ago…

With the advent of information overload and the increase popularity in Big Data applications, there is an increasing need to present information in ways in which can be easily assimilated. Information Visualization is a key factor in interfaces and information architecture of contemporary systems. There are currently many opportunities for…

Report on the workshop "Topic detection or topic construction?", Berlin Humboldt University, August 28-29, 2015 Once more a small but dedicated group met in autumn in Berlin to further discuss methodological problems when it comes to a metric based definition of a topic. The academic discourse started long before TD1210…

Report of my STSM at the Institute of Physics Belgrade during August 16-22, 2015, hosted by Dr. Marija Mitrović Dankulov First of all, I have to say that the week of my STSM was far beyond my already very high expectations. I arrived on Sunday 16th of August at Belgrade, and…

We would like to invite you to participate in the Third Annual Knowescape Conference of the TD1210 COST action KnowEscape, to be held at the Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium) on October 7-9, 2015. The conference event is part of the exhibition “Mapping Knowledge. Understanding the World through Data” organised at the…

The ISSI2015 took place in Istanbul from June 29 to July 4. Many participants from Knowescape were present at the conference and engaged in various special events. Among them I would like to flag out the Doctoral Forum, a special session “Same data – different results? The performative nature of…

Call for Posters The workshop will investigate the role of peer review and open access in university knowledge dissemination and evaluation. Day 1 will address peer review, with a particular attention to its role in ensuring quality and efficiency of knowledge dissemination and evaluation. Day 2 will address open access…

Istanbul Monday, 29. June – Friday, 3. July 2015 The one week STSM visit at Professor Ali Salah’s group (Cognitive Science Program) at the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi university in Istanbul gave me very interesting new insights not only for my current research on reconstructing research topics in…

Topological Analysis of Scientific Collaboration Dynamics Dr Veslava Osinska at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul 28.06 – 03.07.2015 During my STSM I at the Boğaziçi University I learned about the state of art of scientometrics research and visualisations of science in Turkey. With Dr. Almila Akdag and Prof. Albert Ali…