When we learn something new, that information does not exist in isolation. It integrates into the complex landscape of our ...

A glance at the April 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: The mapping of knowledge As the sciences continue to advance into uncharted territory, a new discipline is ...

Research metadata is all around the University of Arizona campus, but the challenge is to collect, connect, analyze, and make it useful. The research metadata includes publications, proposals, grants, ...

Discussions of tacit and explicit knowledge, such as that made by Harry Collins (29 May, p 30), often run afoul of the map-versus-territory confusion: the map is an abstraction of the territory, ...