Inproceedings1700
Finding Relevant Publications in Bibliographical Databases with Social Networks
Finding Relevant Publications in Bibliographical Databases with Social Networks
Published: 2007
Mai
Herausgeber: Bill Richards
Buchtitel: Proceedings of the 8th European Social Network Conference
Erscheinungsort: Corfu Island, Griechenland
Organisation: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
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Kurzfassung
Finding relevant publications to a certain topic is the
classical information retrieval problem. Although good
retrieval tools exist solving this problem is getting harder
and harder due to the mass of information and the rapid
growth of the number of scientific workers.
The io-port.net portal and the DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography include more than 2,000,000 and 850,000
publications, respectively, from more than 450,000
authors. They are major services used by thousands of
computer scientists which provide fundamental support
for scientists searching for publications or other
scientists in similar communities.
In this paper we describe a user friendly interface
which plays the central role in searching authors and
publications and analysing social networks on the basis
of bibliographical data. With the help of a sofisticated
combination of direct search and browsing through the
data, the visualisation of social networks based on
co-authors, cited-by, conferences, etc., respectively, is
the vital principle for finding publications which are
relevant to the user.
After introducing the concept of multi-mode social
networks, the DBL-Browser itself and various methods
for multi-layered browsing through social networks are
described.