2. Case studies. Automatic analysis of information flows

Before embarking on the search for and collection of informal information, it is good practice to carry out an automatic analysis of the formal information linked to a given critical success factor.

Generally speaking, with the ever-increasing number of scientific publications and licenses being taken out, it's obvious that the volume of bibliographic references to be read is becoming significant, and may in some cases be beyond one's own reading capacity. This is why a range of methods (generally known as "bibliometric analysis") has been developed. The starting point is structured information (generally internal or external databases) and, after extracting (downloading) a set of relevant references, a certain number of statistical analyses are performed on this corpus, with the aim of highlighting, generally in infographic form, who does what, where, when and,...