TY - JOUR
T1 - Nano Mapper
T2 - An Internet knowledge mapping system for nanotechnology development
AU - Li, Xin
AU - Hu, Daning
AU - Dang, Yan
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
AU - Roco, Mihail C.
AU - Larson, Catherine A.
AU - Chan, Joyce
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Due to these challenges, there are few knowledge mapping systems for scientific document analysis in the public nanotechnology domain. We therefore proposed a framework to use in building such knowledge mapping systems in order to analyze nanotechnology status. In the paper, we discussed the prototype system we created, Nano Mapper, which provides integrated Web access to a variety of visualization and analytical tools for nanotechnology patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO) and grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). In the current system, we do not include academic literature for copyright reasons.
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This paper presents our efforts to create an Internet knowledge mapping system to assess nanotechnology development status based on patent and grant analysis. A research framework and a prototype system, Nano Mapper, are presented for nanotechnology-related patents from USPTO, EPO, and JPO and grants from NSF in the interval 1976–2006. The Nano Mapper provides search functions, statistics, trend analysis, citation network analysis, and content map analysis to assist users’ online analysis.
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In recent years, a significant amount of public funding has been devoted to nanotechnology. In the United States, [5% of the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget was dedicated to supporting nanotechnology research in 2005 (Roco 2005). In Europe, funding from the European Commission and individual countries comprises the major portion of nanotechnology funding (Hullmann 2006).
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The documents retrieved from online databases are usually free text in html format. These documents need to be parsed into structured data and stored in a relational database. In general, each data source needs a separate parser. However, since the search interfaces seldom change, the parsers can be reused to annually update data collections for the system. In the Nano Mapper system, the patent parsers extract patent identification information (patent id, patent application number, patent priority number), bibliographic information (publication date, inventor name, applicant name), classification information (International classification, United States classification, European classification), citation information, and content information (title, abstract, claims, and description) from patents. The grant parsers extract grant ID, bibliographic information (start and expiration date, grant amount, principal investigator), funding agent information (NSF organization, program, and directorate), and content information (title, abstract) from grants.
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which integrates the analysis of nanotechnology patents and research grants into a Web-based platform. The Nano Mapper system currently contains nanotechnology-related patents for 1976–2006 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO), as well as grant documents from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the same time period. The system provides complex search functionalities, and makes available a set of analysis and visualization tools (statistics, trend graphs, citation networks, and content maps) that can be applied to different levels of analytical units (countries, institutions, technical fields) and for different time intervals. The paper shows important nanotechnology patenting activities at USPTO for 2005–2006 identified through the Nano Mapper system.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - Nanotechnology research has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Advances in information technology enable efficient investigation of publications, their contents, and relationships for large sets of nanotechnology-related documents in order to assess the status of the field. This paper presents the development of a new knowledge mapping system, called Nano Mapper ( http://nanomapper.eller.arizona.edu ), which integrates the analysis of nanotechnology patents and research grants into a Web-based platform. The Nano Mapper system currently contains nanotechnology-related patents for 1976-2006 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO), as well as grant documents from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the same time period. The system provides complex search functionalities, and makes available a set of analysis and visualization tools (statistics, trend graphs, citation networks, and content maps) that can be applied to different levels of analytical units (countries, institutions, technical fields) and for different time intervals. The paper shows important nanotechnology patenting activities at USPTO for 2005-2006 identified through the Nano Mapper system.
AB - Nanotechnology research has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Advances in information technology enable efficient investigation of publications, their contents, and relationships for large sets of nanotechnology-related documents in order to assess the status of the field. This paper presents the development of a new knowledge mapping system, called Nano Mapper ( http://nanomapper.eller.arizona.edu ), which integrates the analysis of nanotechnology patents and research grants into a Web-based platform. The Nano Mapper system currently contains nanotechnology-related patents for 1976-2006 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO), as well as grant documents from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the same time period. The system provides complex search functionalities, and makes available a set of analysis and visualization tools (statistics, trend graphs, citation networks, and content maps) that can be applied to different levels of analytical units (countries, institutions, technical fields) and for different time intervals. The paper shows important nanotechnology patenting activities at USPTO for 2005-2006 identified through the Nano Mapper system.
KW - Bibliographic analysis
KW - Citation network
KW - Data analysis tool
KW - Grant analysis
KW - Information visualization
KW - Nanotechnology
KW - Patent analysis
KW - Research and development (R&D)
KW - Self-organizing maps
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U2 - 10.1007/s11051-008-9491-z
DO - 10.1007/s11051-008-9491-z
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:61449128228
SN - 1388-0764
VL - 11
SP - 529
EP - 552
JO - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
JF - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
IS - 3
ER -