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Join ISSI: the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
ISSI 2013 will take place in Vienna (Austria).
Some of my articles related to the h-index (Hirsch index)
Timeline of bibliometrics
Who was Alfred Lotka? A short biography.
List of Price medal awardees
Evenness as a descriptive parameter for department or faculty evaluation studies (pdf file)
A program to fit power laws (Lotka's law)
An outgrow index (with Hu Xiaojun)
Many of my other articles can be found (as preprints) at the server of UHasselt, or at E-LIS
On September 2, 2011 Yuxian Liu obtained the doctoral degree in Library and Information Science from Antwerp University.
Some pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Direct link to the list of my publications in collaboration with Chinese colleagues.
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Basic definitions in information science
Data: a representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner, capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
Information: the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
So: data is related to facts and machines, information is related to meaning and humans.
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