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Peter A. Hook
Doctoral Student
School of Library and Information Science (SLIS)
Indiana University--Bloomington
pahook@indiana.edu

SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=346126

CV:
Curriculum Vitae

Education:
•  MSLIS (Master Science Library and Information Science), University of Illinois (2000)
•  JD (Juris Doctor), University of Kansas (1997)
•  BA (Bachelor of Arts in English), University of Kansas (1994)

Interests:  Information Visualization (particularly: the educational use of knowledge domain visualizations, concept mapping, and the spatial navigation of bibliographic data in which the underlying structural organization of the domain is conveyed to the user); Social Network Theory; Knowledge Organization Systems; and Legal Informetrics.  Personal Statement (Doctoral Application, Jan. 2004).

Articles: Hook, P. A. (2007). The Aggregate Harmony Metric and a Statistical and Visual Contextualization of the Rehnquist Court: 50 Years of Data. Constitutional Commentary, 24(1), 221-264. (text) (updates)

Hook, P. A. (2002). Creating an Online Tutorial and Pathfinder. Law Library Journal, 92(4), 243-265. (text)

Book Chapters: Hook, P. A., & Börner, K. (2005). Educational Knowledge Domain Visualizations: Tools to Navigate, Understand, and Internalize the Structure of Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise. In A. Spink & C. Cole (Eds.), New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval (pp. 187-208). London: Springer. (text) (cover)

Conference
Presentations,
Papers &
Posters:
Hook, P. A. (2008). Visualizing the Continuity of Government—A Network Approach to Cabinet Level Positions. Poster presented at The Harvard Networks in Political Science Conference (NIPS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 11-14. (about) (poster)

Hook, P. A. (2007). Domain Maps: Purposes, History, Parallels with Cartography, and Applications. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV '07), Zurich, Switzerland, July 4-6, pp. 442-446. (about) (paper) (slides)

Hook, P. A. (2007). Visualizing the Topic Space of the United States Supreme Court. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2007), Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, pp. 387-396. (about) (paper) (slides)

Hook, P. A. (2007). Network Derived Domain Maps of the Work of the United States Supreme Court: 50 years of Co-Voting Data and a Case Study on Abortion. Talk given at NetSci International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2007), Queens, New York, May 20-25. (about) (abstract) (slides) (poster)

Hook, P. A. (2006). Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Science: Cyberinfrastructure Challenges and Knowledge Management Opportunities. Talk given at Panorama des Recherches Incitatives en STIC (PaRISTIC 2006), Nancy, France, Nov. 22-24. (about) (slides)

Hook, P. A. (2006). Network Derived Educational Visualizations of the Work of the United States Supreme Court. Talk given at NetSci International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2006), Bloomington, Indiana, May 16-25. (about) (slides)

Hook, P. A. (2006). Network Derived Educational Visualizations of the Work of the United States Supreme Court. Poster presented at Law in the Age of Networks: Implications of Network Science for Legal Analysis, Champaign, Illinois, March 10. (about) (poster)

•  2006 ALISE (poster)
•  2005 Fifth Annual AISTI Mini-Conference (about)(slides)
•  2005 Understanding Complex Systems (about)(slides)
•  2005 Annual Meeting of the Amer. Assoc. of Geographers  (about) (slides)

General
Presentations
& Posters:
Hook, P. A. (2008). Evolution of American Legal Topics: Metrics, Visualizations, and the History of a Discipline—the AALS Data. Talk given at Legal Education Lunch, IU School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, March 18. (slides)

Hook, P. A. (2007). The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Dataset: Visualizations, Informetrics and the History of a Discipline. Talk given at SLIS PhD Research Forum, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 16. (about) (abstract) (slides)

•  2007 MCPL Talk (Places & Spaces Exhibit)(about) (slides)
•  2006 IV Lab Open House (about) (poster)
•  2006 Science Forecast Maps Workshop (about) (statement) (slides)
•  2006 SLIS PhD Research Forum (slides) (picture) (conference pictures)
•  2006 Modeling Structure & Evolution of Science (about) (slides) (pic)
•  2006 I-ASIS&T Spring Program (about) (slides)
•  2005 Places & Spaces Meeting (about) (position paper) (presentation)
•  2005 IV Lab Open House (about) (poster) (picture, picture)
•  2005 SLIS PhD Research Forum (about)(slides)
•  2004 SLIS PhD Research Forum (about) (slides)
•  2004 IV Lab Open House (about) (poster)

Lab Talks: •  2008 (Mar. 24) "Cognitive Justification for Domain Maps" (slides)
•  2007 (Nov. 19) "Data Mining and Visualizations Related to the US Legal System" (slides)
•  2006 (Nov. 14) "Ideological Alliances on the Supreme Court: 50 Years of Data" (slides)
•  2006 (Mar. 22) "Doctoral Research Agenda" (slides)
•  2005 (Apr. 20)"Org. of U. S. Legal Materials: An Access Driven Infrastructure" (slides)
•  2004 (Dec. 16) "Proposed Doctoral Research Agenda" (slides)

Teaching: •  2006 Fall - L570 (Online Information Retrieval) (syllabus)
•  2005 Fall - L570 (Online Information Retrieval) (syllabus)