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19.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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[CfP] Special Track on Recommendation, Data Sharing, and Research Practices in Science 2.0

TweetI joined the Program Committee of the RDSRP Special Track at the i-Know conference in Graz. The workshop focuses on recent developments around the Science 2.0 / Research 2.0 theme. Be sure to submit your work to this event. Call … Continue reading

10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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GitHub and Open Science?!

TweetI’m currently writing an article on OpenScience in TEL together with my colleagues Peter Kraker, Derick Leony and Günther Beham. In the process of this writing I was searching for good examples of OpenScience and requirements that people expressed. Yesterday … Continue reading

10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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A heatmap of Twitter chatter

TweetToday I stumbled upon the OpenHeatMap project. You can upload a Excel spreadsheet or connect to a spreadsheet in Google Docs and visualize your data in a heat map. It’s simple as that. While the navigation through the map feels … Continue reading

08.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Closed beta of ginkgo has started

Tweet   Tonight we started the closed beta of ginkgo, a cool new tool for the management of scientific events. ginkgo is no classical conference management system. It rather combines conference management functions with those known from social networking sites. … Continue reading

23.07.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Future Social Learning Networks seminar roundup

TweetToday we had the final presentations of our Future Social Learning Networks (FSLN) seminar. The seminar took place at the University of Paderborn and the University of Augburg (both in Germany). I have to say that I supervised a number … Continue reading

28.05.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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[CfP] Research 2.0 workshop at EC-TEL 2010

TweetAfter the successful Science 2.0 workshop at last year’s EC-TEL conference, there will be another cool workshop where you can present your cool ideas and applications about what Science 2.0 and Research 2.0 could look like. Spread the word and … Continue reading

21.04.2010
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Academic Networks – Microsoft Visual Explorer

TweetToday I came across a cool tool for visualizing co-authorship networks and it’s from Microsoft. Microsoft describes the product as: Microsoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research Asia, which also serves as a test-bed for … Continue reading