Current Research of Knowledge Science in Europe and USA

我们参观了欧洲和美国的研究所。S.通过访谈和收集研究报告，对知识科学的进展进行了调查。我们把自己分成几个小组，每个小组都有不同背景的人，即自然科学、信息科学和社会科学，这样我们就可以平衡我们对每个研究所的看法。每个小组被派往欧洲和美国的一个特定地区。S.共访问了39个研究所。更具体地说，六个研究所在美国东海岸地区。美国，美国西海岸地区的六个研究所。美国，非洲大陆有15个研究所，美国有12个研究所。K.通过我们的研究发现，相当多的研究所对跨学科知识的概念感兴趣，但很少有研究所作为组织系统地推广一个研究项目。然而，也有一些人或小团体关注知识的概念，并参与了跨学科的研究，尽管他们的成就并不足以对研究社区产生影响。我们期望在不久的将来，出现一些研究兴趣集中在知识上的群体，知识科学将作为一门独立的学科建立起来。我们相信，我们已经取得了很大的进展，在建立与欧洲和美国的一些机构的联系。美国，我们将与他们共同努力，形成一个新的知识科学研究社区。

We visited the institutes in Europe and the U. S. who were involved in the research of knowledge to investigate the advances of Knowledge Science by interviewing people and collecting research reports. We organized ourselves into several groups, each of which is a mixture of people with different backgrounds, namely, natural science, information science, and social science, so that we can balance our view to each institute. Each group is dispatched to a particular area in Europe and the U. S. for investigation and we visited 39 institutes in total. More specifically, six institutes are in the east coast area of the U. S., six institutes in the west coast area of the U. S., fifteen institutes in the continent, and twelve institutes in the U. K.Through our research we found that quite a few of institutes were interested in the notion of knowledge across disciplines, but few institutes promoted a research project systematically as organization. There are, however, some people or small groups who are concerned with the notion of knowledge and are involved in an interdisciplinary research although their achievement are not impressive enough to make an impact on research communities. We expect that a number of groups will emerge in near future, whose research interests are focused on knowledge, and that Knowledge Science will be established as an independent discipline. We believe that we have made a great progress in establishing ties with a number of institutes in Europe and the U. S., with whom we will work together to form a new research community for Knowledge Science.