A grant proposal was submitted to build a Facebook for scientists to foster scientific collaboration. Such a social network could connect experts across scientific and geographic borders to promote collaboration on research projects.

April 28-30, the Raleigh Convention Center will be alive with action as Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center hosts FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? in conjunction with the international WWW2010 conference.

The DCC has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the state of the art of preservation and curation in an institutional repository context in early 2010, noting areas of recent and current research and development.

Research Data Access and Preservation Summit Program Friday, April 9, 2010

(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Annual Conference 2010 will take place for the first time in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. From Information to Innovation has been chosen as the main theme of the conference and will highlight the significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments and point to to elements of success in building the future. There are three inspiring sub-themes: Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation - Finnish cases Intelligent information solutions and services Creating the future - towards the global innovation economy

UNIVERSITY AND CYBERSPACE: RESHAPING KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE NETWORKED AGE Torino, Italy, 28-30 June 2010

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multime

"Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)-but also big headaches..."

GKEN is about the changing role and nature of information in society as a whole. Prof. Weller's work is a great introduction to 'information history' understood in a way similar to GKEN's mission.

eScience refers to new science opportunities that require distributed collaborations and enabled by emerging internet technologies. These technologies include grid computing, distributed data management, and collaborative tools. Many tools are still in the process of rapid development, and in some cases standards are not yet established.

iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line science-computing newsletter that shows the importance of distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing. It does so by reporting about the people and projects involved in these fields, and how these types of computing technologies are being applied to make scientific advances.

The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.

See a growing list of initiatives and project on a GKEN knol at http://bit.ly/bdrjtO

Michael Kurtz from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been publishing on the research metrics subject

Evaluating scholars simply by tallying their citations is "like saying Britney Spears is the most important artist who ever existed because she's sold 50 million records," said Johan Bollen, an associate professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University at Bloomington, as he introduced a daylong workshop on academic metrics here on Wednesday.

Acyclic digraphs arise in many natural and artificial processes. Among the broader set, dynamic citation networks represent a substantively important form of acyclic digraphs. For example, the study of such networks includes the spread of ideas through academic citations, the spread of innovation through patent citations, and the development of precedent in common law systems. The specific dynamics that produce such acyclic digraphs not only differentiate them from other classes of graphs, but also provide guidance for meaningful distance measures for these networks. We apply our sink based distance measure and the single-linkage hierarchical clustering algorithm to the first quarter century of decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Despite applying the simplest distance measure and a straight forward clustering algorithm, qualitative analysis reveals that accurate clusterings are produced by this scheme.