Data as Impact Lab

An important goal for the lab is to work with openly available data to study the content and impact of various information resources in society. Examples of such information resources are scientific publications, social media, professional literature, government press and news media. Sources employed include digitization projects such as the and Project Gutenberg, Wayback Machine and information services such as Wikipedia and The Riksdag's open data.

The lab combines a focus on digital humanities with current AI research applications, especially concerning computer linguistics.

Data as impact Lab is part of the research group Knowledge Infrastructures at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science. The lab's activities are also closely linked to the master's degree programs and the Digital Methods course given in the master's program and independent course.

Data as Impact Lab is a continuation of our work in the Horizon 2020 project Data for Impact.

Contact

• Gustaf Nelhans (Director)
• Johan Eklund
• David Gunnarsson
• Pablo Lillo Cea
• Camilla Lindelöw
• Fereshta Westin
• Alexander Lagerqvist

Projects linked to the lab

• Huminfra
• ENSURE  Energy & sustainability research effects - quality, impact and sustainable transition
• Bibliometric analysis and entity extraction for Drive Sweden / AI Sweden
• INCITE - Information Fusion as an E-Service in Scholarly Information Use
• Data4Impact

Recent activities

• 2024-09-19 – Nelhans and Eklund presented Exploring Generative AI for Citation Context Typing, at The 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, 2024, Berlin. Sept. 18-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14176374 
• 2024-06-19 - Nelhans co-organized the Symposium on 'Humanistic AI' At University of Gothenburg.
• Eklund & Nelhans presented Using Large Language Models and Image Embeddings for Advanced Access to Digital Image Collections at the conference.
• 2024-04 – Nelhans organised and Gunnarsson Lorentzen participated “The Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting”, 22-23 Apr 2024: Norwegian Research Council (Organised with the Norwegian Research Council and SIKT Norway).
• 2024-01-11 – Eklund and Nelhans presented: “SOU Explorer: An analysis platform for explorations of how research is cited and used in official reports of the Swedish Government.” at the HUMINFRA (HiC-2024) Workshop. Gothenburg: Jan. 10-11 2024. 

• 2024-01-11 – Gunnarsson Lorentzen and Nelhans presented: Research stories on Twitter at the HUMINFRA (HiC-2024) Workshop. Gothenburg: Jan. 10-11 2024 https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp205015
• 2023-10-11 – Nelhans jointly presented “Policy citing science: A study of references in Swedish governmental reports (SOUs)”, at The 28th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy (NWB2023), Gothenburg, 10–12 Oct. 2023 (w./ Salö, L. and Hammarfelt, B.**) https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.figshare.24274477.v1 
  2023-10-11 – Nelhans jointly presented “Narrowing the gap between demand and supply of peer review”, at the 28th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy (NWB2023), Gothenburg, 10–12 Oct. 2023 (w./ Wien, C.**(Elsevier)) https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24282262.v1 
• 2022-08-08 – Eklund, J. & Nelhans, G. (2022). Probabilistic explorations of citation contexts: Citation roles and subject content of scientific references. Conference paper in: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators Granada (Spain) September 7-9, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6957176
• 2021-12-10 - We presented Discursive shifts in the Swedish parliament together with Professor Roger Blomgren at the Digital History in Sweden Conference, 2021, Umeå: 9–10 December (Slides available).
• 2021-10-08 - See a recorded lecture from AI Sweden / Drive Sweden Lunch and Learn at Lindholmen Science Park where we tell about some approaches we work with (in English):

• 2020: Nelhans organised (w./ J. Eklund & D. Gunnarsson Lorenzen): “Data as Impact Lab – Hackathon on metascience”. Virtual Session for Interaction and Engagement. iConference, Borås, Sweden, 23-26 Mar. 2020. (U of Borås).

• Digital resources & datasets

  2022    Fridlund, M., Eklund, J., Lindhé, C., Matsson, A., Nelhans, G., Potter, R. & Westin J. (2022). Nordisk familjebok, Edition 1.0. Gothenburg: Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Gothenburg. Available online: nordiskfamiljebok.dh.gu.se