--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Submissions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Environment and Planning B “Mapping Humanity's Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Domain” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors André Skupin, San Diego State University, skupin@mail.sdsu.edu Katy Börner, Indiana University, katy@indiana.edu Definition and Scope This special issue aims to provide an overview of major research on the visualization of humanity’s collective knowledge and expertise, as it exists in a digital form. Some of the leading-edge research on this topic is found where geography intersects with information / library science, computer science, cognitive science, graphic design, history and other fields. The special issue of Environment and Planning B will present papers on the broad foundations, computational methods, software systems, and evaluation of such data analyses and visualizations, as they have emerged in this interdisciplinary endeavor. Given the importance of efficient knowledge and expertise management at a time of accelerating information flood, we wish to bring major researchers and their work together in this special issue to initiate a major push of research in this area. The metaphors and organizing principles provided by geographic space have received increasing recognition within these diverse disciplines. Publication in Environment and Planning B will help to further broaden the impact that spatial sciences have on efforts to organize large repositories of non-georeferenced data. List of Possible Topics We invite submissions of authors from a variety of disciplines such as geographic information science, cognitive science, digital libraries, database design, data analysis/mining, information visualization, interface design, and others. The recent special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on 'Mapping Knowledge Domains' http://www.pnas.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/ is a good example of the diversity of skills and theories required to map humanity's scholarly knowledge and expertise. The following are some of the topics that papers might address: • Historical, Sociological, or Philosophical Perspectives on Knowledge Mapping • Knowledge Discovery, Representation, and Diffusion • Invisible Colleges, Scientific Networks, Social Networks • Bibliometric and Scientometric Approaches • Models of the Structure and Dynamic of Scientific Disciplines • Spatial Metaphors, Geographic Principles, and Cartographic Methods • Interaction Techniques and Storytelling • Map Evaluation, Validation, and Interpretation • Case Studies and Infrastructure Development Submission Process We ask that authors send a tentative title and abstract to the editors by September 15, in order to expedite later editorial and peer review procedures. Then, by November 15, submit to both editors an electronic copy of your paper (up to 6000-8000 words; preferably in Microsoft Word format). All submissions will then undergo a rigorous peer review process to determine the contributions to appear in this special issue, in accordance with the timeline indicated below. A total of 5-6 papers will be included in this issue. Timeline Call for papers issued: July 15, 2005 Notices of Intent Due: September 15, 2005 Full papers due: November 15, 2005 Peer reviews due: January 1, 2005 Authors notified: January 15, 2005 Revisions due: March 1, 2006 About the Guest Editors André Skupin is an assistant professor of Geography at San Diego State University. Prior to this he held an associate professor position at the University of New Orleans. One of his core research interests is the application of geographic metaphors, cartographic principles, and GIS techniques in the visualization of non-geographic information. His research is strongly interdisciplinary, aimed especially at increased cross-fertilization between geography and information science. For example, he has worked on new approaches to create map-like visualizations from large document collections. Results have been published in such journals as Cartography and Geographic Information Science, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Computing in Science and Engineering, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skupin is currently co-editing a book on applications of self-organizing maps in geographic information science for Wiley. He has served on program committees of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and of a number of international workshops dealing with digital library interfaces. See also http://www.uno.edu/~geog/askupin/ <http://www.uno.edu/%7Egeog/askupin/> Katy Börner is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. In addition, she is an adjunct associate professor of Informatics, core faculty in Cognitive Science, and a research affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute. She conducts research on the analysis and modeling of large scale data sets and the design of cyberinfrastructures (http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery <http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/gallery>). Dr. Börner has co-organized diverse international workshops, conferences and symposia and co-edited several special journal issues as well as a Springer book on 'Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries'. She is the co-editor of the recent PNAS 101 (Suppl. 1) 2004 issue on 'Mapping Knowledge Domains'. Her research is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, James S. McDonnell Foundation, SBC (formerly Ameritech), and SUN Microsystems. See also http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/ <http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/index.html> -- Katy Borner, Associate Professor Information Science & Cognitive Science Indiana University, SLIS 10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 Main Library 019 E-mail: katy@indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy Check out the new InfoVis Lab Gallery at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/