On the second day of the conference “Digital Humanities Experiments #dhiha6” at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) we will experiment in different Laboratories (see the arcticle “The program explained“). Four live experiments will be organised and the participants can choose according to their interests.

Laboratory 1: Aggregate, visualize and browse information about researchers and their activities

Lambert Heller (TIB Hannover) and David Chavalarias (ISC-PIF, Paris)

Data-Experiments and Visualization with Open Science VIVO beta and communityexplorer.org

Nowadays, information about researchers and their activities can be found everywhere on the web, and there is nothing wrong with that in principle. A closer look reveals a more desperate situation: Many variations on the closed silo. On the one hand there are the classics like Web of Science (expensive, includes only traditional research products like the peer review journal article), on the other hand closed institutional systems (like Elsevier Pure, Thomson Reuters Converis) that are not mainly made for the web and its public.

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Quelle: http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/2479