Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Interviewing Katy Borner (25 Jul 2005) Cartographic maps of physical places have guided mankind’s explorations for centuries. They enabled the discovery of new worlds while also marking territories inhabited by unknown monsters. Without maps, we would be lost. Domain maps of abstract semantic spaces aim to serve today’s explorers navigating and managing the world of science. These maps are generated through a scientific analysis of large-scale scholarly datasets in an effort to connect and make sense of the bits and pieces of knowledge they contain. They can be used to objectively identify major research areas, experts, institutions, collections, grants, papers, journals, ideas, etc. in a domain of interest. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=170&lang=2 Read 171 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Fixing an Old-School Site Controlled By a “Webmaster”     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy