Detecting disciplinarity

11 June 2014

Clare Hoopercjh@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk

EINS 4th Plenary Meeting

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• How we do interdisciplinary work is important• Quality• Credibility• Insight• Communication

Why analyse disciplinary representation?

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1. Collate data corpus

2. NLP to extract topics

3. Analysis: graphing, visualisation

4. Analysis of ‘communities’

5. Analysis of WebSci conference series

6. Expert survey

Method

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• Identified application contexts

• Possible impact of co-location

• Term / discipline links vary• Discipline presence varies• Disparity: terms / CFPs

and expert expectations

Findings in WebSci