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1 Cascades, Islands, or Streams?
A roundtable discussion DIGGING INTO DATA Cascades, Islands, or Streams? Time, Topic and Scholarly Activities in Humanities and Social Science Research

2 DIGGING INTO DATA Who is LARIVIÈRE MILOJEVIĆ SUGIMOTO DING THELWALL
HOLMBERG

3 What DIGGING INTO DATA

4 DIGGING INTO DATA What Time: 1743-2011 Dissertations: 2,307,555
Subjects: 166 Schools: 1,490 Countries: 66

5 DIGGING INTO DATA What Time: 1900-2011 Medicine Articles: 14,698,810
Medicine References: 380,058,817 Social Science Articles: 4,228,702 Social Science References: 77,908,552 Arts & Humanities Articles: 3,151,986 Arts & Humanities References: 26,180,296 Natural Science Articles: 14,853,029 Natural Science References: 335,144,498

6 DIGGING INTO DATA What Time: 1991-2012 Articles: 744,584
Broad Subject areas: 7 Matching ISI records: ~50%

7 DIGGING INTO DATA What Time: 2010-current Tweets: 100,000 per month
Subjects: 11 Generalist journals: 4 Scientists and science journalists: 350

8 DIGGING INTO DATA What Time: 2006-2012 Videos: 1,202
Views on TED: 620,406,446 Views on YouTube: 111,681,275 Comments on YouTube: 414,311

9 DIGGING INTO DATA Why are we
Integrate several datasets representing a broad range of scholarly activities Use methodological and data triangulation to explore the lifecycle of topics within and across a range of scholarly activities Develop transparent tools and techniques to enable future predictive analyses

10 DIGGING INTO DATA Towards a new model Formal vs. Informal
Genres Formal vs. Informal Published vs. Unpublished Draft Report Conf. paper Article Review Book Tweet Blog Slideshow Multimedia Curated DB Production Dissemination Creator Consumer Prosumer

11 DIGGING INTO DATA Questions about Cassidy R. Sugimoto (PI)
Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington


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