Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left,...Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left, a thorough analysis of the information flows between existing SDIs as well as their respective uses and the way that those evolve over time is an important issue to explore. The research presented in this paper introduces a methodological framework oriented to the study of the SDIs use from a diachronic perspective. The approach is based on a Social Network Analysis (SNA) and questionnaires collected by online surveys. We develop a structural and diachronic analysis based on a series of graph-based measures identifying the main patterns that appear over time. The methodological framework is applied to a series of French SDIs and users involved in environmental management. The study identifies a series of structural differences in the data flows that emerge between the users and SDIs. Last, the diachronic network analysis provides an overall understanding on how data flows evolve over time at different institutional levels.展开更多
Visualizing social networks,especially an overview emphasizing their structure,i.e.,communities and their interconnections,is known to be a challenging problem.In this paper,we present a set of design rationales to bu...Visualizing social networks,especially an overview emphasizing their structure,i.e.,communities and their interconnections,is known to be a challenging problem.In this paper,we present a set of design rationales to build such overview visualizations of social networks and our solution called Jasper.We evaluate its performances against two of the most wide-spread visualization techniques(matrix and node-link diagram)in a human–computer controlled experiment based on community-related tasks.While none of the techniques emerge as the overwhelming winner,Jasper appears to be one of the best methods for each task;a fact sustained by the marks given by the users.Overall,Jasper can be seen as an all-encompassing solution for quickly producing legible and compact overviews of large social networks on a single modern computer.展开更多
文摘Despite the recent development of many worldwide initiatives, there is still a need for the development of observation frameworks that will provide a comprehensive view of SDI’s use. Amongst the many challenges left, a thorough analysis of the information flows between existing SDIs as well as their respective uses and the way that those evolve over time is an important issue to explore. The research presented in this paper introduces a methodological framework oriented to the study of the SDIs use from a diachronic perspective. The approach is based on a Social Network Analysis (SNA) and questionnaires collected by online surveys. We develop a structural and diachronic analysis based on a series of graph-based measures identifying the main patterns that appear over time. The methodological framework is applied to a series of French SDIs and users involved in environmental management. The study identifies a series of structural differences in the data flows that emerge between the users and SDIs. Last, the diachronic network analysis provides an overall understanding on how data flows evolve over time at different institutional levels.
文摘Visualizing social networks,especially an overview emphasizing their structure,i.e.,communities and their interconnections,is known to be a challenging problem.In this paper,we present a set of design rationales to build such overview visualizations of social networks and our solution called Jasper.We evaluate its performances against two of the most wide-spread visualization techniques(matrix and node-link diagram)in a human–computer controlled experiment based on community-related tasks.While none of the techniques emerge as the overwhelming winner,Jasper appears to be one of the best methods for each task;a fact sustained by the marks given by the users.Overall,Jasper can be seen as an all-encompassing solution for quickly producing legible and compact overviews of large social networks on a single modern computer.
