Award Abstract #0715303
Creative Metaphors to Stimulate New Approaches to Visualizing, Understanding, and Rethinking Large Repositories of Scholarly Data

NSF Org:	IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	May 29, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	June 2, 2009
Award Number:	0715303
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Pamela L. Jennings IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	June 1, 2007
Expires:	November 30, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$198,812.00
Investigator(s):	Katy Borner katy@indiana.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Indiana University 509 E 3RD ST Bloomington, IN 47401-3654 (812)855-0516
NSF Program(s):	ITR-CreativeIT
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 9237, 0000, 9102
Program Element Code(s):	7655

ABSTRACT

This project facilitates a unique collaboration among artists and scientists with the goal to develop, implement, and validate novel metaphors and approaches to access, manage, and communicate scholarly datasets. The results are expected to have transformative power in terms of the organization, analysis, and visualization of large-scale scholarly datasets. A sequence of three artists will work with scientists at the Information Visualization Laboratory and the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.

The artists will work with database experts on parsing, structuring, and loading new datasets into a multi-terabyte database of scholarly data. The artists will play with a multitude of data analysis and visualization algorithms. They will participate in brainstorming, technical, and design sessions. Most importantly, the artists will be fully immersed as equal partners in different projects. Ethnographic studies will be conducted to capture, optimize, and communicate this unique collaboration. This is exploratory work as we cannot predict what will happen when artists are immersed in the Lab and are asked to rethink and reinvent the way in which research is conducted, the tools being used and designed by the researchers, and the means of communicating results.

The broader impact of this research will be facilitated by three workshops that bring together artists and scientists with synergistic expertise in (2) the communication of science dynamics, (2) novel devices and interactivity techniques, and (3) dramatization of information. These workshops bring together scholars and artist that normally do not meet in a scholarly setting.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

Borner, Katy, Weixia (Bonnie) Huang, Micah Linnemeier, Russell Jackson Duhon, Patrick Phillips, Nianli Ma, Angela Zoss, Hanning Guo, Mark A. Price. "Rete-Netzwerk-Red: Analyzing and Visualizing Scholarly Networks Using the Scholarly Database and the Network Workbench Tool," Proceedings of ISSI 2009: 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 14-17 . Vol. 2, v.2, 2010, p. 619.

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