A network analytic-based method for facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue at conferences

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a network analytic‐based method in order to better facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue at conferences. Using a network composed of papers and subject headings of the 2013 ASIS&T Conference Proceedings, its structure is first analyzed by applying a community detecti...

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Published inAmerican Society for Information Science and Technology. Meeting. Proceedings of the ... ASIST Annual Meeting Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 4
Main Author Motooka, Julie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
Subjects
Algorithms
classification
Collection
Communities
Conferences
Mathematical analysis
measurements of interdisciplinarity
Meetings
Network analysis
Networks
organization of conference structure
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Summary:ABSTRACT This paper proposes a network analytic‐based method in order to better facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue at conferences. Using a network composed of papers and subject headings of the 2013 ASIS&T Conference Proceedings, its structure is first analyzed by applying a community detection algorithm and two major centrality measures: betweenness and degree centralities. A combination of degree centrality measurements, along with a qualitative evaluation of the results of those measurements, form a novel method that could potentially connect collections whose content may have been previously “siloed” into separate tracks.
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ISSN:0044-7870
1550-8390
1550-8390
DOI:10.1002/meet.2014.14505101168