In 99% of cases, you do not use data, intrinsically rich, relating to the life of your event, like proceedings, thematics, presented papers and speaches, which end up as books or CD-ROM, rarely consulted.
If an electronic version of these data is available to you, you can benefit from their potential value thanks to « text-mining » techniques.
From your available documents, Astefo runs two types of analyses:
- represent the contents of proceedings by interactive thematic maps, allowing you to easily seize topics and papers matching your interests
- if you provide Astefo with sets of documents corresponding to several periods, for instance proceedings over ten years, it is possible to trace the evolution of contained topics. You have then a dynamic dimension by categorising topics which are emerging, stable or declining, and you can track corresponding documents, authors, involved organisations…
You become able to measure the relative weights and their evolution according to contained data.
Accessing this information, which already exists but normally remains out of reach unless you systematically read proceedings, can only increase your understanding of changes, help you in decision taking, help evaluation committees, and anybody needing a synthetical reading of the sets of publications and data you have available.
Astefo capability in realising your bibliometrics
Astefo uses the text-mining software Calliope ®, which it designs, maintains and owns. More information on Calliope Web site (site in French; software interface available in English and French). The processing of your documents is done as follows:
- you provide us with your data files
- we process them and elaborate the dictionary dedicated to your domain
- we finally deliver you the outputs : delivery of Calliope Viewer, a PC Windows interface to play and display the results, or we can release a printed document summarising part of the results, or we can present results at your premises…