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Social Web and Bibliometrics

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Sommersemester 2013

In this course, the students will get a systematic overview about applications on the Social Web. The lecture will identify and discuss typical and repeating interaction pattern and regularities in Social Web applications like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter. The second part will present the basics of the information science discipline Bibliometrics. We will show how bibliometric methods can be applied on Social Web data. Structure of the lecture

Lecture

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. York Sure

The lecture is given in English. Lectures (corresponding to 2h/week).

Credits: 2 SWS, 3 ECTS

Dates

lecture wednesday 14:00 - 16:00 room 205 Emil-Schüller-Straße (see also in Klips)

exercise course wednesday 14:00 - 18:00 room 205 Emil-Schüller-Straße

Exam

Either as an oral examination or as a written exam depending on the number of attendees.

KLIPS

Here is the corresponding entry for the lecture in Klips.

TOPICS

1. What is the Social Web?

Applications
Typical interactions
Typical distributions
APIs
Data gathering

2. What is Bibliometrics?

Foundations
Bradford Law
Lotka Law
Citation Analysis

3. Methods of Bibliometrics
4. Application of bibliometric methods in bibliographic data
5. Analysis of Social Web data with bibliometric methods
6. Conclusion

References Wilson, Concepción S. (1999): Informetrics, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 34, 107-247.