May 17-Jun 30, 2008

The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Are you interested in seeing science from above? Curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Keen to find pockets of innovation? Desperate for better tools to manage the information flood? Or are you simply fascinated by maps? Then visit the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit at on display at The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences May 17th, 2008 - June 30th, 2008.


The exhibit aims to demonstrate the power of maps to navigate and make sense of physical places and abstract topic spaces. The display at The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences features the first four of ten iterations of the Places & Spaces exhibit entitled 'The Power of Maps', 'The Power of Reference Systems', and 'The Power of Forecasts'. This will be the debut of the fourth iteration. Also shown are Illuminated Diagram displays by W. Bradford Paley, Kevin Boyack, John Burgoon, Peter Kennard, and Richard Klavans and Worldprocessor globes by Ingo Günther, and hands-on science maps for kids with paintings by Fileve Palmer.

Scientists will be stimulated, students and teachers encouraged, and the general public fascinated by this multi-layered accessible approach to the worlds of modern scientific thought.

Exhibit Curators

Dr. Katy Börner <katy@indiana.edu> and Elisha Hardy <efhardy@indiana.edu>,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Local Exhibit Curators

JiangHong Chen <chenjh@mail.las.ac.cn>
The Research Center for Grid and Service Computing (VEGA Center) at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China.

Address

The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
BeiSiHuanXiLu, No. 33 (First floor exhibit hallway)
Beijing, China, 100190
Phone: 86-10-62532095/62537443

 

Maps On Display

Additional Elements


Special Exhibit Map

Research Collaborations by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
By Weixia (Bonnie) Huang, Russell J. Duhon, Elisha F. Hardy, Katy Börner, Indiana University, USA
This map highlights the research collaborations of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with locations in China and countries around the world. The research collaborations shown are co-authorship relationships. The large geographic map shows the research collaborations of all CAS institutes. Each smaller geographic map shows the research collaborations by the CAS researchers in one province-level administrative division. Collaborations between CAS researchers are not included in the data.  On each map, locations are colored on a logarithmic scale by the number of collaborations from red to yellow.  The darkest red is 3,395 collaborations by all of CAS with researchers in Beijing. Also, flow lines are drawn from the location of focus to all locations collaborated with. The width of the flow line is linearly proportional to the number of collaborations with the locations it goes to, with the smallest flow lines representing one collaboration and the largest representing differing amounts on each geographic map.

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Acknowledgements

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit is curated by Dr. Katy Börner and Elisha F. Hardy, Indiana University with input from the Advisory Board listed on the exhibit website. Weixia Huang, Indiana University organized and led the display of the exhibit in China. We would like to thank Renpeng Hu, Qizheng Bao, Weixia Huang from Indiana University and Bihui Jin and Dan Wang from the National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences for translating exhibit materials into Chinese. The Research Center for Grid and Service Computing (VEGA Center) at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have provided extensive support in set-up, hosting and maintenance of the exhibit.

The exhibit in China is sponsored by the National Science Foundation awards IIS-0534909, IIS-0737783, IIS-0238261, IIS-0715303, CHE-0524661; the James S. McDonnell Foundation; Thomson Scientific; National Natural Science Foundation of China awards 60573117 and 70711120409; Elsevier; and the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University.