** Note this FRIAM lecture will be on Friday and at Santa Fe Institute **
Friday, March 30, 2007 . 12:15 pm . Medium Conference Room
"MESUR: Modeling and Analysis of the Scholarly Community"
by
Johan Bollen (LANL) and Marko A. Rodriguez (LANL)
Abstract
MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) is a 2-year, Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation funded project at the Digital Library Research and Prototyping team
of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. The MESUR project aims
to define and validate a range of usage-based metrics of scholarly impact to
improve the assessment of scholarly status which is now largely based on
citation counts. The project will create a large-scale semantic network
representation of the scholarly community that includes those scholarly
artifacts for which large-scale real world data exists, i.e. citation,
bibliographic and usage data. The semantic network will represent approximately
50 million articles and their associated objects (e.g. authors, journals,
publishers, institutions) and 1 billion usage (download) events representing
world-wide user activity. A range of usage-based metrics of scholarly impact
will be defined and validated using the instantiated semantic network as a
substrate. This talk will discuss the MESUR project's objective, work plan and
architecture, and conclude with the presentation of a novel algorithmic
framework for the analysis of semantic networks.
MESUR:
http://www.mesur.org/http://www.santafe.edu/events/abstract/569
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