7. „In any academic discipline the research
publication represent the knowledge structure of
that discipline. This represents the research
trends, landmark papers, key researchers,
network of collaborations and contributions from
different institutions and regions.“
8. Research:
„We like to demonstrate and compare the change
of interest in publications, contributions and
research across different regions and institutions
over a period of time for ED-Media conference.“
9. Data Extraction:
- parsing the HTML pages from 2003 - 2008
- country information compared with
GeoByte database
- for name‘s of insitutions string match
algorithm called n-grams were used
- 99 unique keywords were compared
10. Data Extraction:
- 4607 papers were examined
- 8186 authors
- 2911 institutions
in detail: 2003=779; 2004=921; 2005=810;
2006=501; 2007=697; 2008=899 papers
11. Visualisation tool:
- Web application will be made available
for researchers, lecturers and students
- using Adobe Flex (for flash animation),
Java Servlets, MySql
21. Countries view :
United
States
Japan
Canada
United
Kingdom
Australia
Austria Taiwan
Germany
22. Institutions view of USA:
University of Texas at
Austin: 10 papers
University of Hawaii at Manoa: 18
University of Georgia: 19 papers
papers
University of Hawaii University of Texas at
at Manoa: 15 papers Austin: 16 papers
University of Texas at
Austin: 6 papers
University of Hawaii at
Manoa: 21 papers
University of Georgia:
27 papers
23. Discussion
- Data Extraction and analyses show the
global trends as well as top contributing
nations
- Problem of institutions ambiguity
- Next steps are „appearing keywords“
24. SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at