ICCS06/Katy Borner
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[edit] Katy Borner
Indiana University
ICCS Presentation Title: Mapping Science
Abstract:
In this talk I will showcase recent progress in mapping mankind’s scholarly knowledge on a global scale. I will start with an introduction of the process of mapping scholarly data, continue with an overview of commonly used metaphors and references systems, and conclude with a visual feast of large-scale maps of sciences and their exemplary usage. I will conclude with an invitation to map the dynamics of science – to model and visually depict science weather forecasts.
The talk draws on work published in [1-7] as well as on the ‘Places & Spaces: Mapping Science’ a science exhibit on display at the NYPL Science, Industry, and Business Library (Madison/34th), New York, April 3rd - August 31st, 2006 (http://vw.indiana.edu/places&spaces/nypl).
Talk slides are at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/events/06-complexity-boston.pdf.
About Katy:
Dr. Katy Börner is an Associate Professor of Information Science in the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute, Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and Member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory. She directs the Information Visualization Laboratory and is the Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.
Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques that improve information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity, e.g., user actions in 3D virtual worlds; and the development of cyberinfrastructures (CI) for large-scale scientific collaboration and computation such as the Information Visualization CI (http://iv.slis.indiana.edu) and the recently funded Network Workbench CI (http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu).
Among others, she co-edited a book on ‘Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries’ published by Springer and a special issue of PNAS on ‘Mapping Knowledge Domains’.
Börner is the recipient of many fellowships and awards, including Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Pervasive Technology Laboratories Fellowship, SBC Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, and Trustees Teaching Award. She is currently PI or Co-PI on 12 grants that are funded by NSF, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, 21st Century Fund, and SUN Microsystems.
