http://www.structuralknowledge.com tools for discovering what we already know Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:04:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's an interesting new paper (Maslov, arXiv:0901.2640v1) up on the arXiv this month about using centrality metrics (in their case a modified PageRank) to analyze citation graphs in academic publishing. I'll refrain from summarizing the paper as a related post on the arXiv physics blog has already done a great ... http://www.structuralknowledge.com/2009/01/21/centrality-and-tacit-social-networks/ I'll spare you any prognostication about what's to come and simply list a few of the things I'm thinking about these days: Tacit social networks Layered markup Collaborative relationships embodied in large, group authored texts (e.g. wikipedia) Mapping change in networks See you soon. http://www.structuralknowledge.com/2009/01/07/getting-started/