As we may think

Abstract

Scalable Web Page Entanglement [The human mind] operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. ABSTRACT We present a proxy-based system for augmenting the capabilities of the World Wide Web. Our system adds two-way association links and automatically removes these links when they break, while the existing web features only one-way links and lingering broken links. Several web augmentation systems have been developed in the past that add two-way links. Our key contribution is in terms of link management, which in our system is dynamic and completely automatic. Links between web pages are added and removed according to popular web traversal paths, freeing both page owners and readers from the burden of link creation and maintenance. Links can form between pages that do not link to each other at all, reflecting the fact that readers have associated these pages with each other-we described such pages as entangled. We use variations on common peer-to-peer techniques to build a scalable system out of a dynamic set of proxy peers. Proxy-to-proxy communication takes place entirely over http, ensuring compatibility with existing infrastructures. A working implementation of our system is available at

Evaluating universities using simple scientometric research-output metrics: total citation counts per university for a retrospective seven-year rolling sample

“…This top-down approach to research evaluation derives from the discipline of scientometrics in which the evaluation of research is seen as a science in its own right (Bush, 1945;de Solla Price, 1986;Garfield, 1977: 313-318;Leydesdorff, 2005). Scientometric analysis is therefore typically performed by observers 'outside' the system being evaluated; in contrast to the bottom-up evaluations, which are typically performed by 'peer review' of individuals with expertise in the discipline being evaluated.…”

“…Indeed, scientometrics originated in the realm of evaluating scientific research during the period of rapid post-1945 expansion of science (including the industrial organisation of research) and of the large-scale government funding of science (Bush, 1945;de Solla Price, 1986;Garfield, 1977: 313-318;Leydesdorff, 2005). Science research metrics have a generally good track record and the scientometric research of organisations such as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now Thomson Scientific) is heavily used at many levels within science, from international, through national to local, where it exerts a significant influence on the conduct of science policy including funding.…”

Wahm 2014

“…Such change is not new, we have seen the transition from story-telling to written books, from paintings to photographs to digital images and from individual diaries to collective social networks. Vannevar Bush's Memex vision [2] has become partly reality through the advent of the Internet. With lifelogging data combined with context-driven memory aids, his vision is further put into reality.…”

Pacall

“…Therefore, we attempt to introduce the concept of life log into this system to record learning experiences in a passive way. The notion of life log can be tracked back at least 60 year (Bush, 1945). It means to capture a person's entire life or large portions of life.…”