Dear colleagues,

We are forwarding you this request from the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir Mark Walport, and encourage you to participate in this project.

“The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology is looking at the UK science landscape. The aim of this project is to build a picture of the whole research landscape in the UK and to develop a stronger evidence base. This evidence base will be available to inform future strategic decision-making and help the UK to maintain and develop its excellence in research. As part of this project, we wish to understand better how the UK’s research community defines itself and the links and interconnections that exist between research disciplines. To help do this, the UK Knowledge Landscape Tool has been developed and has been designed to gather data from researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research.”

“To be part of this exciting and experimental approach, users can log on and create an account at www.ukknowledgelandscape.co.uk. We are interested in crowd-sourcing a large amount of data which will be analysed to produce outputs such as taxonomies or maps. The more responses the tool has, the better the mappings are likely to be. For this reason, we would welcome your input.”