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Strategic reading within and across articles

Scientists may have moved well beyond traditional reading, but they still remain engaged with the narrative of scientific articles and need tools to help them read, and not only mine, that narrative. [...] Reading the sentences of an article in relevance order rather than narrative order is an example of strategic reading within an article.An example of strategic reading across a collection is provided by Information Hyperlinked over Proteins (iHOP),which uses genes and proteins to create a network of sentences and abstracts for searching and navigating MEDLINE abstracts (32).

Saved 26 February 2013

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A genome is not a blueprint; it encodes a set of tools (proteins)

A blueprint shows you “what” but a genome doesn’t encode “what.” The genome can instead, be thought of as encoding a set of tools (proteins). It tells you…

A Monkey’s Blueprint | Sa Visual, Scientific American Blog Network #genome #genes #protein

Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour)

Consensual behaviour is behaviour between two systems as a result of living together. These would not have appeared had they not lived together. The behaviour…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #linguistic-behavior #Maturana #medium #example #behavior #interaction

Essential ontological dichotomies include

Essential ontological dichotomies include: Universals and particulars Substance and accident Abstract and concrete objects Essence and existence Determinism…

Ontology #accidents #Abstract #existence #particulars

Beyond zapping through museum collections

In our case, we are dealing with the question of how museums can present the specific information that belongs to objects in their collection in a way that…

Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections #collection #objects #debate

Collections, seasons and franchises

The final set of programme-type objects are collections, seasons and franchises. Collections provide a generic way to group any type of PIPs objects (brand…

Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst #broadcast #themes #collection

Describing collections in RDF/XML

RDF/XML provides a special notation to make it easy to describe collections using graphs of this form. In RDF/XML, a collection can be described by a property…

Rdf Primer #RDF/XML #XML #collection #RDF