Vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection About IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 2199 - 2206
• Main Authors: Isenberg, Petra, Heimerl, Florian, Koch, Steffen, Isenberg, Tobias, Panpan Xu, Stolper, Charles D., Sedlmair, Michael, Jian Chen, Moller, Torsten, Stasko, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.09.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Subjects: citation data; Coalescing; Cognitive science; Collection; Computer science; Conferences; Data visualization; History; Libraries; Metadata; Portable document format; publication data; Scientific visualization; Terminology; Visualization; Visualization; citation data; publication data
• ISSN: 1077-2626; 1941-0506; 1941-0506
• DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2615308

We have created and made available to all a dataset with information about every paper that has appeared at the IEEE Visualization (VIS) set of conferences: InfoVis, SciVis, VAST, and Vis. The information about each paper includes its title, abstract, authors, and citations to other papers in the conference series, among many other attributes. This article describes the motivation for creating the dataset, as well as our process of coalescing and cleaning the data, and a set of three visualizations we created to facilitate exploration of the data. This data is meant to be useful to the broad data visualization community to help understand the evolution of the field and as an example document collection for text data visualization research.