A glance at the April 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: The mapping of knowledge As the sciences continue to advance into uncharted territory, a new discipline is ...

When we learn something new, that information does not exist in isolation. It integrates into the complex landscape of our knowledge, forging connections with existing ideas and opening up ...

Research metadata is all around the University of Arizona campus, but the challenge is to collect, connect, analyze, and make it useful. The research metadata includes publications, proposals, grants, ...

The Berkman team has been seeking to map the knowledge space constituted by the human and organizational network of individuals and groups working on issues related to youth-oriented online hate ...

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Discussions of tacit and explicit knowledge, such as that made by Harry Collins (29 May, p 30), often run afoul of the map-versus-territory confusion: the map is an abstraction of the territory, ...