From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 06:26:35 MDT
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:37:07PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Smigrodzki, Rafal wrote:
>
> > A similar way of looking at scientific data already exists in the form of
> > maps relating scientific disciplines and specific projects, produced by
> > citation analysis by the ISI.
>
> The only problem with that is that the ISI only works through
> the "established" publishing circles (scientific clique?).
>
> Early adopters of more advanced technologies (myself, Anders,
> to a lesser extent Robert Freitas, Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, etc.
> [i.e. those who split their efforts into conventional and advanced
> venues]) have a higher "citation index" on the web than we do in the
> conventional literature.
One could perhaps use it as a bootstrapping device: the ISI web (which
can be assumed to be a fairly high quality database in the sense that
the areas of interest have clear labels) has a relation to the WWW web
through mutual citation (mostly to the ISI web at present). This makes
it possible to use the ISI data to label the web. If one had several
different such webs, one could use their cross-links to label them more
accurately. Sounds like a fun project in knowledge mining or
webcrawling.
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