Knowledge Building Analytics to Explore Crossing Disciplinary and Grade-Level Boundaries

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: A Epilegomenon for Lockett and McWilliams

A Passage Through Science: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries HENRYSMALL

A METHODOLOGY IS PRESENTED FOR CREATING pathways through the scientific literature following strong co-citation links. A specific path is described starting in economics and ending in astrophysics traversing 331 documents. Special attention is given to where the path crosses disciplinary boundaries and how analogy can be used to model the thought processes involved in such transitions. Implicat...

Crossing Epistemological Boundaries: Managerial and Entrepreneurial Approaches to Knowledge Management

We identify two distinct yet complementary epistemological paths to knowledge development. The first one is holistic and field dependent and builds on the concept of plausibility; this path we associate with an entrepreneurial mindset. The second is object-oriented and builds on the concept of probability; this path we associate with the managerial mindset. We believe that both managerial and k...

Blurring disciplinary boundaries.

he ambitious and integrated framework of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates that complex global problems span the natural and social sciences and that solutions to such problems demand a joint approach of the two. Despite decades of efforts toward better integration, much of society still presumes a stark divide between the disciplines, and most scientists...

Crossing Boundaries

This section offers a series of joint reflections on (open) data platform from a variety of cases, from cycling, traffic and mapping to activism, environment and data brokering. Data platforms play a key role in contemporary urban governance. Linked to open data initiatives, such platforms are often proposed as both mechanisms for enhancing the accountability of administrations and performing a...