Mapping an illustrious career : the Roger Summit collection

Visible Legacy can be used as a way to navigate through the career of an illustrious luminary as a case study for teaching and learning.  This short informal screencast walks through the profile for Roger K Summit, pioneer in the information retrieval industry.  It shows in particular how his published and unpublished papers can be viewed in the context of projects and collaborators.

posted by Will Snow

Finding an expert : Stanford Mimir

I explored the Stanford MIMIR project using Visible Legacy, and posted an informal screen capture video on YouTube and above.  This project sounds very interesting from their website: "Our interdisciplinary team will apply new computational techniques to study the spread of ideas and methods across disciplines, to contrast the success of virtual and ephemeral versus formal and physical organizations, and to understand the complex behavior of a large-scale intellectual enterprise, and what attributes are important for successful innovation."

The video shows navigation with our prototype and gives an idea of where we are going.  We start with McFarland and his study of language in social networks, and discovered connections to joint projects by using the map, leading to unexpected new areas of study in computer recognition of natural language. In so doing it implies some of the reasons that the MIMIR project could be a hotspot of innovation!

posted by Will Snow