is it just me

Yesterday I attended the Science 2.0 workshop at the EC-TEL 2009 where we had some really interesting talks about future research tasks in the field of Science 2.0. As I like visual representations of content a lot, I wondered if there is a simple way of visualizing the content of a paper and the different research themes of a workshop. I used Wordle to create a very simple visualization of the content of Martin’s and my paper about Twitter in conferences and one of all papers accepted for the workshop:

This is the wordle of my own paper.

This is the wordle of all Science 2.0 workshop papers.

Maybe we can implement some kind of such visualizations in conferences such that BEFORE a conference you can visually browse what will be discussed in workshops and thus select where you go. I also would prefer to have these automatic tag clouds for all papers so I easily figure out the main topics of it.

Sure these simple tag clouds cannot be the final step because there is no interactivity, so you cannot click on a keyword and see its occurrences in the paper or all workshop papers – but hey it’s just an idea so far… Tell me what you think.

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