DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO

Data Archiving and Networked ServicesData Archiving and Networked Services

Future of our city

Andrea Scharnhorst

June 21, 2014

Expert hearing at the European student parliament

Andrea Scharnhorst – “science located”

•Head of Research&Innovation at DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute•Scientific coordinator of the Computational Humanities programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

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@scharnhorstaResearchGate; Mendeley; Academics.edu; LinkedIn

www.knowescape.org

Cities as complex systemsBatty, M. (2005). Cities and complexity: Understanding cities with cellular automata, agent-based models, and fractals. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Schweitzer, F. (2003). Brownian agents and active particles: Collective dynamics in the natural and social sciences. Berlin: Springer.

Pictures reproduced from Frank Schweitzer’s book

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Cities and social movement

1895-1993 Source: Wikipedia Dan Linsey

Comprehensiveknowledge

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http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/

ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE LANDSCAPES AND KNOWLEDGE LANDSCAPES

Browse a collection or a database

Map size, structure, composition and evolution of the collection

Locate your search on such an interactive knowledge map

• Domain overview for students, interdisciplinary teams, lay experts and funding agencies

• Tools for scholars of history and philosophy of science and bibliometrics

• Overview of BigData collections (incl. social media)

Given the explosion of information how to navigate to find what is needed?

Information professionals•Collections, Information retrieval•WG 1 Phenomenology of knowledge spaces• WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Social scientists•Simulating user behavior•WG 2 Theory of knowledge spaces•WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Computer scientists •Semantic web, data models•WG 1 Phenomenology of Knowledge Spaces•WG 4 Data curation &navigation

Physicists, mathematicians

Digital humanities scholars•Collections, interactive design•WG 3 Visual analytics – knowledge maps•WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Participating communitiesParticipating communities

• Structure & evolution of complex knowledge spaces, big data mining

• WG 2 Theory of knowledge spaces

• WG 3 Visual analytics – knowledge maps