The official demonstration session on the e-Social science conference today is scheduled for the last 20 minutes of the lunch break. Because of the nature of the lunches (a three course affair that seems to run over the allotted time every time so far), I have decided to cancel this demonstration. Experience by others so far are that no-one shows up for these sessions.
For those interested, I will be giving mini demonstrations with my laptop only in the coffee breaks in the morning and/or afternoon. Simply find me, and ask! I am exited to fold open my laptop for you to show you our work.
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vrijdag 26 juni 2009
woensdag 24 juni 2009
Installer for windows online
With the official launch of the toolkit only a night away, I have just uploaded an installer for the Windows platform to the file storage we have on Assembla. Of course, our website has been updated to reflect that. Other files you can find there include documentation, but also testcases to reproduce bugs.
Tomorrow at 11 AM, I will do the first demonstration (note, the time has changed from the earlier announcement) on the e-Social Science conference in Cologne. I will give a little bit of background, and then quickly move on to actually showing the attendants the tools on some real life data. Of course, I will also show some pretty pictures that we made using the tools, courtesy of Edwin (thanks!)
I hope everything will go all right. There will be another demonstration on friday, so plenty of opportunities to see the tools in action!
Tomorrow at 11 AM, I will do the first demonstration (note, the time has changed from the earlier announcement) on the e-Social Science conference in Cologne. I will give a little bit of background, and then quickly move on to actually showing the attendants the tools on some real life data. Of course, I will also show some pretty pictures that we made using the tools, courtesy of Edwin (thanks!)
I hope everything will go all right. There will be another demonstration on friday, so plenty of opportunities to see the tools in action!
woensdag 17 juni 2009
Demonstration on e-Social Science conference
As announced in the introductory posting, we will be launching our toolkit on the e-Social Science conference in Colone, Germany. We will be doing that in a 20 minute demonstration session, where will we demonstrate how you can easily use a set of data downloaded from ISI/Web of Knowledge to create some maps of a research field, using a couple of database queries and our tools.
update, june 18:
As soon as I know the exact time, date and location of this session, I will post it here.
There will be two demonstration sessions:
11:00 – 11:30: Thursday 25 June
16:00 – 16:30: Thursday 25 June
13:40 – 14:00: Friday 26 June.
All demo's have been allocated to take place in the main foyer of Maternushaus.
If you happen to be at this conference, don't hesitate to join in for this demonstration!
update, june 18:
There will be two demonstration sessions:
11:00 – 11:30: Thursday 25 June
13:40 – 14:00: Friday 26 June.
All demo's have been allocated to take place in the main foyer of Maternushaus.
If you happen to be at this conference, don't hesitate to join in for this demonstration!
vrijdag 12 juni 2009
First post
Every blog needs an introductory posting, and this one is no different. What is it about? What can we expect to hear? Why even bother blogging? Those are the kinds of questions both you and I would like to see answered. "You and I", I hear you wonder? Yes, because it is not completely clear to me either what exactly I will and will not write about yet. So let's start with giving some idea about what I am doing, and why that is interesting to keep a weblog about.
The Science System Assessment department of the Rathenau Instituut is dealing, among other things, with trying to apply bibliometrics and patentometrics to map the dynamics of science and knowledge transfer. The problem that our department quickly ran into was that the available tools that can deal with this kind of data are relatively far between, require many manual, error prone and labour-intensive steps and don't fit together well. Worse, we soon ran into limitations with the amount of data we could handle in them that started to affect our research.
So, we decided to build some tools ourselves. Seeing that the tools that were (and are) available are not open, we had to start from scratch. That presented both a challenge and an opportunity, because in this way we could also rethink basic issues of how these tools should work. We decided to go for a design where all tools work against standard relational databases in which we structure the available data as well as possible. We also wanted the tools to be easy to use, so a clear graphical interface was a must. Since I have experience developing software using the excellent C++ based Qt toolkit, I chose to use that as the environment to build these tools in. As an added bonus, cross platform compatibility as well as database back end independence come practically for free.
As the first tools began to be available in early versions, more and more ideas about what else we could do and needed begun to pop up, and soon the idea to build some tools led to a complete toolkit that is still growing. Now the time has come to make these tools available to you too. The toolkit will officially be launched at the 5th conference of the National Centre for e-Social Science in Cologne. The first tree tools will be released in their "1.0" or "ready to use" versions, while the rest of them are made available "as is". Because we would have liked to contribute to the exisiting tools but could not, we have decided to avoid the same issue with our initiative.
We would love to hear from you, and even better, to work with to to improve these tools! We expressely invite you to use them, test them, and improve on them. To make that possible, we are making all sourcecode available under a liberal open source licence. We will also make a public issuetracker available, as well as a forum and other collaboration tools.
And that brings us to the why of this blog: we feel that it is important to keep you up to date with what is happening, what we are planning, and what others are doing with these tools. This blog is one of the ways in which you can do that. We are also working on a nice website, and a temporary website will be up soon. If you have other ideas about how to communicate, want to aggregate your own blog, or have any other comments: don't hessitate to contact me. I'd love to hear from you!
The Science System Assessment department of the Rathenau Instituut is dealing, among other things, with trying to apply bibliometrics and patentometrics to map the dynamics of science and knowledge transfer. The problem that our department quickly ran into was that the available tools that can deal with this kind of data are relatively far between, require many manual, error prone and labour-intensive steps and don't fit together well. Worse, we soon ran into limitations with the amount of data we could handle in them that started to affect our research.
So, we decided to build some tools ourselves. Seeing that the tools that were (and are) available are not open, we had to start from scratch. That presented both a challenge and an opportunity, because in this way we could also rethink basic issues of how these tools should work. We decided to go for a design where all tools work against standard relational databases in which we structure the available data as well as possible. We also wanted the tools to be easy to use, so a clear graphical interface was a must. Since I have experience developing software using the excellent C++ based Qt toolkit, I chose to use that as the environment to build these tools in. As an added bonus, cross platform compatibility as well as database back end independence come practically for free.
As the first tools began to be available in early versions, more and more ideas about what else we could do and needed begun to pop up, and soon the idea to build some tools led to a complete toolkit that is still growing. Now the time has come to make these tools available to you too. The toolkit will officially be launched at the 5th conference of the National Centre for e-Social Science in Cologne. The first tree tools will be released in their "1.0" or "ready to use" versions, while the rest of them are made available "as is". Because we would have liked to contribute to the exisiting tools but could not, we have decided to avoid the same issue with our initiative.
We would love to hear from you, and even better, to work with to to improve these tools! We expressely invite you to use them, test them, and improve on them. To make that possible, we are making all sourcecode available under a liberal open source licence. We will also make a public issuetracker available, as well as a forum and other collaboration tools.
And that brings us to the why of this blog: we feel that it is important to keep you up to date with what is happening, what we are planning, and what others are doing with these tools. This blog is one of the ways in which you can do that. We are also working on a nice website, and a temporary website will be up soon. If you have other ideas about how to communicate, want to aggregate your own blog, or have any other comments: don't hessitate to contact me. I'd love to hear from you!
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