Places & Spaces

Read Workshop Transcript and send comments to katy@indiana.edu

Workshop Goal
This workshop aims to identify existing and to master-mind novel maps for an exhibit on "Science (Weather) Forecasts" as part of the 3rd iteration of the Mapping Science exhibit. The envisioned maps help to communicate the structure and evolution of mankind's scholarly knowledge by showing for example

- The evolution of scientific communities/fields – birth, growth, maturation, decline.
- Interactions among fields. Who 'eats' who's papers?
- Trends, patterns, or emergent research frontiers, feedback loops, etc.
- Interplay of competition and collaboration.
- Diffusion of people, ideas, skills, etc. in geospatial space and topic space.
- Effects of different funding models, e.g., few large vs. many small grants.

The maps are rendered based on a sophisticated analysis and modeling of large-scale scholarly datasets comprising papers, patents, or grants. For background information please see list of publications.

Please fill out the Brief Bio and PR^2: Problems & Pitches and submit to Katy Borner <katy@indiana.edu> and Elisha Hardy <efhardy@indiana.edu> by Thursday October 19th, 2006.

Date
October 25th & 26th, 2006 (please see the agenda for details)

Meeting Place
New York Hall of Science, NYC
Lower Level Boardroom
http://www.nyscience.org
5 minutes from La Guardia airport.



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Travel Information
The Ramada Plaza Hotel on 114th Street (Access to #7 Subway Line and free shuttle to La Guardia) is $119.00 per night. Mapping Science is a grass roots effort. Currently, there is no funding available for travel support. If you would like to attend but need support, please contact Katy at katy@indiana.edu and we will try to find a way.

Organizers

PR^2 / PPT	Katy Börner Associate Professor of Information Science, SLIS, Indiana University. Project director of the InfoVis CI and Network Workbench. Co-curator of Places & Spaces. katy@indiana.edu	PR^2	Julie Smith Co-curator of Places & Spaces. Indiana University jsmarie@gmail.com
PR^2 / PPT	Stephen Uzzo Director of Technology, New York Hall of Science. Collaborated on the design of Connections - The Nature of Networks. suzzo@nyscience.org

Confirmed Attendees

PR^2 / PPT	Bruce Herr Research Staff, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University bherr@indiana.edu	PR^2 / PPT	Eric Giannella Research Associate in the Jenkins Collaboratory Duke Univeristy (attends only on 10/26) eric.giannella@duke.edu
PR^2 / PPT	Arno Klein Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) arno@binarybottle.com	PR^2 / PPT	Robert Pietrusko Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) pietrusr@newschool.edu
PR^2 / PPT	Jamie Smith Researcher in Mathematics and Computation Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) jamie.a.smith@gmail.com	PR^2 / PPT	Anthony Townsend Research Director Institute for the Future atownsend@iftf.org
PR^2 / PPT	Richard Klavans Map of Science Science analyst and science map maker. Designer of tools for research planning. rklavans@mapofscience.com	PR^2 / PPT	Nicolas Barris Knewco, Inc barris@knewco.com
PR^2 / PPT	Brad Paley Digital Image Design Incorporated, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, and Director of Information Esthetics Designer of CodeProfiles, TextArc, and TraceEncounters. brad@didi.com	PR^2 / PPT	Marcia Rudy Program Consultant New York Hall of Science mrudy@nyscience.org
PR^2 / PPT	Peter Hook Ph.D. Student at SLIS, Indiana University. Works on educational knowledge domain visualizations. pahook@indiana.edu	PR^2 / PPT	David Bornstein Author of "How to Change the World" (attends only on 10/25) dnbornstein@gmail.com
PR^2 / PPT	Skye Bender-Demoll SoNIA developer, researcher / consultant on dynamic network visualization skyebend@skyeome.net Movies shown at workshop: Movie 1, Movie 2, Movie 3	PR^2 / PPT	Daniel Zeller Pierogi Gallery Brooklyn, NY danzel@inch.com
PR^2 / PPT	Bonny Harbinger, Ph.D., J.D. Deputy Director Office of Technology Transfer National Institutes of Health harbinger@nih.gov	BIO / PPT	Israel I. Lederhendler, Ph.D. Director, Division of Information Services Office of Extramural Research, OD National Institutes of Health lederhei@od.nih.gov
PR^2 / PPT	Mike Pollard Vice President, Discovery Logic. mikep@DiscoveryLogic.com		Eric Siegel Executive Vice President, Programs & Planning New York Hall of Science

Interested (not attending)
Chaomei Chen <Chaomei.Chen@cis.drexel.edu>
Luc Anselin <anselin@uiuc.edu>
Mark Gahegan <mng1@psu.edu>
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang <apang@iftf.org>
Eric Moeller <moeller@scireview.de>
Barend Mons <bmons@knewco.com>
Walter Tobler <tobler@geog.ucsb.edu>
Timothy Lenoir <lenoir@duke.edu>
Andre Skupin <askupin@uno.edu>
Ingo Gunther <i-gun@refegee.net>
Alan McEachren <maceachren@psu.edu>
Ji Lee <jilee@pleaseenjoy>
Valdis Krebs <valdis@orgnet.com>
Daniel A MaFarland <macfarland@standford.edu>
Ramana Rao <rao@inxight.com>
Jim Giles <J.Giles@nature.com>
Boyack, Kevin W <kboyack@sandia.gov>
John T. Bruer <bruer@jsmf.org>
Tatham, Thomas (NIH/CSR) <tathamt@csr.nih.gov>
Eduardo Kac <ekac@saic.edu>
Christensen, Paola <Peter_Christensen@moma.org>
Peter Christensen <Peter_Christensen@moma.org>
Henry Small <henry.small@thomson.com>
Caroline S. Wagner <caroline.wagner@sri.com>
Jim Ketchum
Alan J. Friedman, Chief Scientist New York Hall of Science, afreidman@nyscience.org
Martin Weiss, Vice President, Science New York Hall of Science, mweiss@nyscience.org

Agenda
Given the diverse backgrounds of the attendees and the goals of this informal meeting, the workshop will start with brief self introductions of the attendees followed by an overview of the state of the art of science mapping well as challenges and opportunities for science weather forecasts. The afternoon is reserved for brainstorming and discussions of reference systems, metaphors, data overlays, design languages, etc. that might best communicate the structure and evolution of science to a general audience.

Wednesday October 25th, 2006
6:00 pm Dinner at Pisticci. View Menu and please send food preferences to Veronica Dougherty <veronicadougherty@hotmail.com>
See Map & Directions
8:30 pm Cocktail Party at Brad Paley's Place. Digital Image Design Incorporated, 170 Claremont Suite 6, New York, NY 10027.
Bring a Print or a Bottle

Thursday October 26th, 2006
Workshop in the Lower Level Boardroom of the New York Hall of Science, NYC

8:30 am Light Breakfast
9:00 am Introduction by Participants (5 min per person/organization = 24 slots)
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Mapping Science & Science Forecasts: Challenges and Opportunities by Katy Börner
12:30 pm Joint Lunch
1:30 pm Breakout Sessions on Reference Systems, Metaphors, Data Overlays, Design Languages, etc.
2:30 pm Breakout Session Reports
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Discussion of Next Steps
5:30 pm Adjourn

Publications

Börner, Katy, Chen, Chaomei, and Boyack, Kevin. (2003). Visualizing Knowledge Domains. In Blaise Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, Volume 37, Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc./American Society for Information Science and Technology, chapter 5, pp. 179-255.

Shiffrin, Richard M. and Börner, Katy (Ed.). (2004). Mapping Knowledge Domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(Suppl_1).

Chen, Chaomei and Hicks, Diana. (2004). Tracing Knowledge Diffusion. Scientometrics. 59(2), 199-211.

Boyack, Kevin W., Klavans, R. and Börner, Katy. (2005). Mapping the Backbone of Science. Scientometrics. 64(3), 351-374.

Börner, Katy, Penumarthy, Shashikant, Meiss, Mark and Ke, Weimao. (2006). Mapping the Diffusion of Scholarly Knowledge Among Major U.S. Research Institutions. Scientometrics. 68(3), pp. 415-426.

Small, Henry. (2006). Tracking and Predicting Growth Areas in Science, Scientometrics. 68(3), 595-610.

Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the New York Hall of Science for sponsoring the venue. Support from Discovery Logic. Travel support comes from a James S. McDonnell Foundation grant in the area Studying Complex Systems entitled "Modeling the Structure and Evolution of Scholarly Knowledge".

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