International Workshop: Mining the Digital Traces of Science - Toward interactive visualization of science dynamics

Paris March 23-24 2011
Complex Systems Institute of Paris Ile-de-France

The recent ICT revolution has given birth to a parallel world of digital traces. This change affects a wide number of contexts of collaborative knowledge creation, from casual discussions, political arguments, to scientific elaboration and participative decision-making.

Abstract
Science has been the first domain to experiment this shift to a stigmergic society. No need to recall the ongoing and yet already old history of scientific publications databases construction and use. For the first time a whole community of practice including scholars, decision makers and possibly any concerned citizen has been able to get an insight into current scientific research. Despite the amazing richness of most of these repositories (whether they are or not free or public), users have been limited to a more or less sophisticated query-based search-engine mediated access to bibliographical notices. The current challenge is to design and develop innovative tools to access this knowledge in order to enable users with new methods of navigation, interaction and data visualization of this kind of of databases.

Speakers: Luis Bettencourt, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Chaomei Chen, David Chavalarias, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Pablo Jensen, Bruno Latour, Marco Quaggiotto, Ismael Rafols, Martin Rosvall, André Skupin, Angela Zoss

Registration is free but mandatory at http://iscpif.fr/mdts11

MDTS11 Collaborative Data Challenge march 22

Remote participation is possible - deadline march 23 2011

The MDTS11 workshop is sponsoring a collaborative data challenge. The challenge builds atop a dataset of 200.000 items from Thomson ISI WoS with a focus on embryology and embryonic science from 1956 to 2010. We invite you to explore the dataset, learn something interesting about it, and submit a contribution on the MDTS11 webpage.

Awards:

1. 400€ for the best pre-processing (NLP, SNA, dataviz, etc.),
2. 600€ for the best contribution and first author position for the collective paper of the workshop.

The best contributions will be gathered in a collective paper for which first author will be the winner of the data challenge. The workshop will hire a reviewer to insure the final rewriting of the paper.