Coldlib - A Concept for a Global Knowledge Space for the Collnet Community
Bernd Markscheffel, Hendrik Thomas · Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management · 2009
Main objective of the COLDLib project is the development of a global knowledge space for the interdisciplinary research network “Collaboration in Science and in Technology” - COLLNET. In particular this project will support the collection, combination and enrichment of the existing knowledge in the field of quantitative aspects of science of science, collaboration and communication in science and technology, science policy, combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches, issues in scientometrics/ informetrics/ webometrics. With the help of this Digital Library, it will be possible to search information, which is currently worldwide scattered in various silos, in different software applications, different languages, he-terogeneous data formats and different places in a semantically interconnected way.