Taken from the cover of Atlas of Science, Katy Börner (MIT Press, 2010), where one reads: Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern. Data becomes information when assembled into a coherent whole, which can be related to other information. Information becomes knowledge when integrated with other information in a form useful for making decisions and determining actions. Knowledge becomes understanding when related to other knowledge in a manner useful, in anticipating, judging and acting. Understanding becomes wisdom when informed by purpose, ethics, principles, memory and projection. George Santayana

Learn more on the picture There is no escape from the expansion of information, so that structuring and locating meaningful knowledge becomes ever more difficult. This conference aims at tackling this issue by gathering information professionals, sociologists, bibliometricians, physicists, digital humanities scholars and computer scientists to exchange their views on problems of data mining and data curation when studying knowledge. The combination of insights from complexity theory and knowledge organization will improve our understanding of the collective, self-organized nature of human knowledge production and will support the development of new principles and methods of data representation, processing, and archiving.