Tag Archives: knowledge

Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling

Philip Man | 03 May 2011, 9:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Interactive data visualization has emerged as a complete new field within journalism. Large editorials like The New York Times, The Guardian, the Economist, the Washington Post all have special teams dedicated to data visualizations only. However, in the recent years, the storytelling potential of data visualizations has been debated.

Scientific referencing and hypertext: The necessity of a visual overview

Frank Molenaar | 20 April 2011, 1:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This entry is meant as an introduction to the tool my group and I are developing for our Datavisualisation class. We will be trying to geographically map the rise and diffusion of different research fields over time. The reason for wanting to see these developments are diverse, but one of them derives from the increasing amount of (academic) information on…

Expertise vs. Wikiknowledge

Frank Molenaar | 04 October 2010, 11:51 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Tuesday morning 10 o’clock: Workday as usual. I’m working on some notification plug-in for the forum on the website I manage for VOS/ABB – an organisation looking after the interest of people working in and managing public primary- and high schools in the Netherlands – and all of a sudden the entire team for market and communication barges through…

Book Review: “L’umanista digitale” by Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte and Francesca Tomasi

Alberto Angelini | 24 September 2010, 3:40 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Starting from its very title (“The digital humanist”), all in this book is clearly rooted into a hybrid philosophy, a way of looking at things from an interdisciplinary point of view. The context is that of Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing, a study/research field where the impact of digital technology on traditional humanities’ disciplines is analyzed along with the parallel…

Wikipedia changes our perception of knowledge

Suzanne Schram | 21 September 2009, 11:41 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Wikipedia differs greatly with the traditional encyclopedia. Examples of aspects of differentiation:

· Broader public: knowledge is for everyone.
· Authority: everyone can write for Wikipedia.
· Broader range of subjects: everyone can decide what is important to be included in Wikipedia. There is no limit on the size of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia can be accessed by everyone who…

The great power of a Wikipedia sysop

Yu-Fen Chen | 20 September 2009, 4:08 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

A sysop (as a system operator) is a controversial actor in Wikipedia. The term sysop means an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online virtual community. In the Wikipedia world, Sysops are known as editors who have been trusted with access to restricted technical features. There are no official requirements for…