Current Research of Knowledge Science in Europe and USA

我们走访了欧洲和美国参与知识研究的机构，通过访谈和收集研究报告来调查知识科学的进展。我们把自己组织成几个小组，每个小组都是自然科学、信息科学和社会科学等不同背景的人的混合体，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进行调查，我们总共走访了39个研究所。具体来说，美国东海岸地区有6个研究所，西海岸地区有6个研究所，欧洲大陆有15个研究所，英国有12个研究所。通过研究我们发现，相当多的研究所对跨学科的知识概念感兴趣，但很少有研究所系统地推动一个研究项目的组织。然而，有些人或小团体关心知识的概念，并参与跨学科研究，尽管他们的成就不足以对研究界产生影响。我们预计，在不久的将来，将出现一批研究兴趣集中在知识方面的小组，知识科学将被确立为一门独立的学科。我们相信，我们在与欧洲和美国的一些研究所建立联系方面已经取得了很大的进展，我们将与他们共同努力，形成一个新的知识科学研究共同体。

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.