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** Reminder tomorrow **
** Note this FRIAM lecture will be on 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