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Exhibit Purpose and Goals

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart (http://scimaps.org) provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.



Check out the schedule of physical showings and come see with your own eyes the extent to which maps can be employed to help make sense of the flood of information we are confronted with and how domain maps can be used to locate complex and beautiful information.


Atlas of Science - Katy Börner's book with 30 full page maps from the exhibit - coming 2009

Download the exhibit flyer - now available in 4 languages

Also enjoy a guided audio-visual tour through the exhibit.

Radio Interview with Katy Börner on "Monitoring the Progress of Science in the Digital Age" at Focus 580 with David Inge on WILL AM, April 13, 2006.

For further information please contact Katy Börner, Indiana University and Elisha Hardy, Indiana University.

Current Displays

NSF, Washington D.C. There is a permanent display of the first two iterations on the 10th floor of the National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA.

NRC, Ottawa, Canada. The first three iterations are at National Research Council - Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 3 - June 27, 2008 (Now extended through August 29th).

CAS, Beijing, China.The fourth iteration will debut at The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, May 17th - June 30th, 2008.

Check out the schedule of physical showings and come see with your own eyes the extent to which maps can be employed to help make sense of the flood of information we are confronted with and how domain maps can be used to navigate and manage data, knowledge and expertise.


Own a Map of Science!

You can support this exhibit by buying one of the very first maps of sciences. For questions or comments, contact Katy Börner, Indiana University or Elisha Hardy, Indiana University. All income is used to finance the shipping and display of this exhibit to broad audiences.

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Acknowledgements This exhibit was supported in part by the School of Library and Information Science and the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science center at Indiana University. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238261, CHE-0524661, IIS-0737783 and IIS-0715303. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.