Organizations & Partners

Here are the key organizations and partners associated with the Bibliographic Knowledge Network (BKN) project.



See categorized associations below.

Organizations Funded by the NSF CDI Grant:

  • American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), AIM is a research institute with a mission to solve important mathematical problems through focused collaborative research.
  • Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is engaged in research and education in probability and statistics. Besides fundamental theory and methodology, the department is active in statistical problems in diverse fields such as molecular biology, geophysics, astronomy, AIDS research, neurophysiology, sociology, political science, education, demography, and the U.S. Census.
  • Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University, IQSS is a university-wide institute that facilitates the creation, dissemination, and preservation of scientific knowledge about human society, its problems, and their solutions. Our scientific mission is: to create, and make widely accessible, statistical and analytical tools for the social and health sciences; and to use these tools for understanding and solving major problems that affect society and the well-being of human populations. IQSS supports these aims through a highly collaborative environment and the development of scalable infrastructure. IQSS provides research and development platforms and production services in the areas of information technology (through the Harvard-MIT Data Center), digital preservation (through the Henry A Murray Research archive), and Digital Libraries (through the Dataverse Network Project).
  • Stanford University, is private and one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions, located in Palo Alto, California.

Unfunded Partners:

  • Creative Commons, A nonprofit organization which provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry, allowing users to share, remix, reuse -- legally.
  • FIZ Karlsruhe, A non-profit service institution within the Leibniz Association (WGL). Its mission is to make sci-tech information publicly available worldwide and to provide related services supporting information, communication, and publishing.
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), A scholarly society dedicated to the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability.
  • kReef, is an online service to accelerate and enhance the research process. Designed by researchers for researchers, kReef replaces the tedious, trial-and-error information discovery process with a real-time service that delivers superior results mined from a large-scale database of scholarly resources.
  • Metaweb Technologies, A private company based in San Franciso which aims to build a better infrastructure for the Web.
  • Open Library Society, Inc., A not-for-profit corporation formed to build freely-available digital libraries. Working on AuthorClaim registration service, a system to register academic authors and link them to their contributions.
  • PlanetMath, A virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the PlanetMath Encyclopedia.
  • PlanetMath Encyclopedia, Open access encyclopedia of mathematics with entries written and reviewed by members of the PlanetMath community.
  • Springer, is one of the world's largest commercial publishers that develops, manages and disseminates knowledge through books, journals and the Internet; it publishes some of the world's best academics and authors.
  • The R Foundation, A non-profit organization founded to support the The R Project for Statistical Computing.

Organizations planning to form nodes of the BKN:

Major Contractor:

Further Organizational Partners: