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Building VREs

by admin 23 September 2011

'R&D in Alfalab's workshop to build GeoLab'

Not much news in new Shanghai rankings

by P.F. Wouters 14 September 2011

Two weeks before the start of the 2011 academic season, the latest issue of
the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was published. The response
to this ranking in the Netherlands is telling about the importance ascribed to
glob…

Tagged as: Ranking, Science policy

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Symposium – eHumanities in Practice

by admin 7 September 2011

The Alfalab team is hosting a one day symposium to celebrate the successful conclusion of phase 1 of the project. On the 29th of September the project leaders will present their results and will demonstrate the various tools and applications that were delivered during and as a result of this first phase of the project. [...]

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NESSHI is launched! — When neuroscience meet the social sciences and humanities

by Clement 15 June 2011

What is NESSHI? NESSHI stands for “The Neuro-turn in European Social Sciences and Humanities: Impact of neuroscience on economics, marketing and philosophy”. It is a 3-year European project involving partners from the UK, Netherlands, Germany and France, which started in June 2011. It aims at providing a better view of the transformation of disciplines from [...]

Tagged as: Europe, European project, nesshi, neuro-turn, ORA, Uncategorized

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Ethics and Ethnography

by Anne Beaulieu 15 June 2011

An outcome of a fine collaboration, fed by lots of discussions with Annamaria Carusi and with members of the Virtual Ethnography Collaboratory–thanks everyone! Beaulieu, Anne and Adolfo Estalella. In Press, 2012. Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings. Information, Communication and … Continue reading →

Tagged as: ethics, ethnography, fieldwork, mediated ethnography, reflexivity, Uncategorized

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What difference does a website make?

by Anne Beaulieu 2 June 2011

A website that presents the collection through gorgeous visuals is now considered a must for any self-respecting museum. Photographs of objects, of exhibitions and of the museum itself are increasingly frequent interfaces, linking museums, visitors, experts, collections. How are users … Continue reading →

Tagged as: archive, database, ethnography, image, photography, tropenmuseum, Uncategorized, web 2.0

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VP-Cross in mei

by leen.breure 31 May 2011

De met Xpos’re gemaakte verrijkte publicaties zijn nu op nog meer platforms leesbaar. In de afgelopen maand is een nieuwe versie van RipConverter beschikbaar gekomen, waarmee de XML-tekst ook kan worden geconverteerd naar mobiele platforms, zoals iPhone en e-reader.

De volgende gebruiksmogelijkheden zijn nu beschikbaar:

Puur Flash: de XML-tekst wordt gepresenteerd in DocReader.swf. De tekst is opgedeeld [...]

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Rankings under Groninger fire

by P.F. Wouters 26 May 2011

Rafael Wittek, director of the Internuniversity Center for
Social Science Theory and Methodology, based at the University of Groningen,
recently attacked Dutch university policies at the occasion of the 25th
anniversary of his famous gra…

Tagged as: Ranking, Science policy

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Anxiety about quality may hinder open access

by P.F. Wouters 19 May 2011

Anxiety about the quality of open access journals hinders the further spread of open access publications. This conclusion was cited many times during the recent Co-ordinating workshop on Open Access to Scientific Information, in Brussels on May 4 this …

Tagged as: Journal Impact Factor, Open Access, Science policy

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Hello world!

by admin 13 May 2011

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Teaching in Madrid

by P.F. Wouters 10 May 2011

Started my visiting professorship at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, Complutense University in Madrid today with a nice class discussion about research evaluation. Here is the presentation I gave about the role of information science in…

Tagged as: Citation Analysis, history of science, Mapping science, Science policy

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Open Access in European science policy

by P.F. Wouters 4 May 2011

http://prezi.com/_bfvsoqb7pvp/acumen-academic-careers-understood-through-measurement-and-norms/Attended an interesting workshop today on Coordinating Open Access in European science policy. We presented our ACUMEN project there, making the connection w…

Tagged as: Open Access, Science policy

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VP-Cross in april

by leen.breure 3 May 2011

Inmiddels is er een website voor de tools die wij voor verrijkte publicaties ontwikkelen (http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/projects/i-cult/xposre/). Deze bevat een korte beschrijving van het geheel, dus niet alleen van hetgeen in het kader van VP-Cross wordt ontwikkeld, maar ook van de Flash-tools. We hebben even moeten zoeken naar een passende naam; uiteindelijk zijn we uitgekomen op XPOS’RE: [...]

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Evaluating e-research

by P.F. Wouters 3 May 2011

We had a very interesting discussion last week at the e-Humanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The problem I presented is how to evaluate e-research, the newly emerging style of scientific and scholarly research that ma…

Tagged as: Science & Technology Studies, Science policy

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International networks start to drive research

by P.F. Wouters 28 April 2011

Networks of
collaborating scientists spanning the globe are increasingly shaping the research
landscape. The share of papers co-authored by researchers from different
countries is steadily growing. More than one third of the papers is no…

Tagged as: Mapping science, Science policy

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Why the increasing societal interest in neuroimaging?

by Clement 11 April 2011

Video and slides of my presentation at the “Imaging the Mind” Conference:
http://webcolleges.uva.nl/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=cb7fbbca8eb040ae9e99c75d4089dc481d
(does not properly display on Google Chrome 11 beta, looks fine on Internet Explor…

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Frank Neffke wint prijs met artikel ‘Skill shortage and skill redundancy: Asymmetry in the transferability of skills’

by Erasmus Studio 11 April 2011

Won hij eerder dit jaar de Dissertation Award van de ’Regional Science Association International’, nu valt Frank Neffke, universitair docent Toegepaste Economie aan de Erasmus School of Economics, voor de tweede keer in 2011 in de prijzen. Ditmaal v…

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Frank Neffke wint prijs met artikel ‘Skill shortage and skill redundancy: Asymmetry in the transferability of skills’

by Erasmus Studio 10 April 2011

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Frank Neffke wint prijs met artikel ‘Skill shortage and skill redundancy: Asymmetry in the transferability of skills’

by Erasmus Studio 10 April 2011

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A network of cognitive functions?

by Clement 3 April 2011

Stephan Schleim from the University of Groningen in cooperation with Machiel Keestra, from the University of Amsterdam, have organized a very interesting conference in Amsterdam aimed at making philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists dialogue about neuroimaging. To me, the most interesting contribution on Saturday was by Michael Anderson (a cognitive scientist and philosopher by training, from University of Lancaster, [...]

Tagged as: cognitive neuroscience, Lancaster, Michael Anderson, network analysis, neuroimaging

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