Paperboy icon, with the permission of the Artist Bradley David Santos www.bradleydavidsantos.net/works%5B/caption%5D

The concept is to be able to search for articles by institutions and find collaborators who are publishing in your searched interests. Three different potential user groups have been considered:
– Prospective students who are searching for institutions to study at
– Academics who want to find collaborators at other institutions.
– Policy and institution-makers who want to look strategically at the published record to inform decisions.

This experimental project was initated at ‘healthhack’ in Melbourne over the weekend.

What was achieved during the weekend is described on the wiki.
github.com/healthhack-melb/wiki/wiki/Paperboy
(N.B, the live demo is being updated this evening. Look at it on Tuesday morning).

Coders, Designers, Analysts want to make stuff during the un-ference and teach some others a little?

Geo-located social media provide a unique blend of information about society and place, extending volunteer geographic information models to form crowd-sourced people-centric data platforms. We propose a discussion around the use of geolocated social media in different disciplines.

The SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong has developed a suite of tools, based on open software, for Twitter data analysis which we can present to kickstart conversations. It would be great to have some other presenters too.

Geolocated tweets from around Australia

Interesting things we could discuss:

• How can we use geo-located social media to better understand the relationships between people and the urban environment?
• What is the role of social media during emergencies?
• Discussion on the technologies available to capture, analyse and visualise GeoSocial data.

Interested to hear your thoughts – all suggestions welcome!