GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences. It is headquartered in Mannheim, with a location in Cologne. GESIS is part of the Leibniz Association and receives federal and state funding.
Also recorded as GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Founded
- 1986
- Headquarters
- Mannheim
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The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences. It is headquartered in Mannheim, with a location in Cologne. GESIS is part of the Leibniz Association and receives federal and state funding.
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences was founded in 1986, with headquarters in Mannheim.
Its fields of activity include social science. It is a member of Confederation of Open Access Repositories, DataCite and German National Research Data Infrastructure. Associated bodies include Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, Leibniz Association and NFDI4Earth.
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Recorded constituent parts are Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne Library and GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim Library. It is associated with Germany. The record gives 1986 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Its recorded seat is Mannheim.
Established in 1986 as German Social Science Infrastructure Services (Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen), GESIS originally consisted of the three independent institutes: • Social Science Information Centre (InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften, IZ) in Bonn, • Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, ZA) in Cologne, and • Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, ZUMA) in Mannheim. In 2007, the three GESIS institutes merged into one. In November 2008, GESIS added "Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences" to its name in order to emphasize its membership in the Leibniz Association. In November 2011, GESIS Bonn and Cologne were merged into one location in Cologne.
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WikiWho, developed by Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta and hosted by GESIS, "parses the complete set of all historical revisions (versions) (of Wikipedia articles in different languages) in order to find out who wrote and/or removed and/or reinserted which exact text at token level at what revision". WhoColor and whoVIS are in development. Researchers developing and using WikiWho, also investigated the Gamergate (harassment campaign). In 2021, Fabian Flöck planned to leave GESIS and shut down WikiWho sometime in 2022, however, a Wikimedia Foundation software engineer is working to migrate the infrastructure. Who Wrote That?Wikimedia Foundation, Community Tech Team has released Who Wrote That?, a browser extension, for Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based browsers using WikiWho. ContropediaContropedia is a related "platform for the real-time analysis and visualization of such controversies in Wikipedia".
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences established.
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is recorded from 1986.
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences was established or created in 1986.
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- 1.Contact. WikiWho.
- 2.wikiwho. wikiwho.net.
- 3.Flöck, Fabian. Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web. 843–854. 2014. 978-1-4503-2744-2.
- 4.Borra, E. A Platform for Visually Exploring the Development of Wikipedia Articles. ICWSM. 2015.
- 5.David Laniado (0000-0003-4574-0881). ORCID.
- 6.Wiki Workshop. Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and Opportunities. Wiki Workshop at ICWSM 2015. 2015.
- 7.Schmeller, Nick. WikiWho: Globally Visualizing Live Anonymous Contributions to Wikipedia. YouTube. Council on Science and Technology, Princeton University. 10 May 2021.
- 8.Flöck, Fabian. Towards Better Visual Tools for Exploring Wikipedia Article Development — the Use Case of "Gamergate Controversy". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 9. 5. 48–55. April 2015. 10.1609/icwsm.v9i5.14701.
- 9.Floeck, Fabian. wikiwho. WikiWho. GitHub. 31 July 2022.
- 10.flöck, fabian. accessible data science tools: interactive tools to explore and analyse digital traces. f-squared.org.
- 11.Auerbach, David. Wikipedia Chews Up and Spits Out Bad Facts, and Its Own Policies Are Letting It Happen. Slate Magazine. 5 February 2015.
- 12.Dewey, Caitlin. The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read. Washington Post. October 14, 2014.
- 13.Ross, Sage. A new server for Authorship Highlighting data. Wiki Education. 7 February 2022.
- 14.Error querying Wikiwho API: Unknown on Talk:XTools. MediaWiki.
- 15.Who Wrote That? – Extension for Firefox (en-GB). addons.mozilla.org.
- 16.Who Wrote That?. chrome web store.
- 17.Who Wrote That?. MediaWiki.
- 18.Straker, Adam. this browser extension tells you who has written and reviewed the information on the web. Gearrice. 2 August 2022.
- 19.Analysis and visualization of controversies within Wikipedia articles. Contropedia.
- 20.Borra, Erik. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 193–196. 18 April 2015. 978-1-4503-3145-6.
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Constitution and standing. It is classified as research institute and open-access publisher. It works in social science. It comprises Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne Library and GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim Library.
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