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#Encyclopedia
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
The precarious place of encyclopedias
Encyclopedias have always occupied a precarious position in academia. On the one hand they taxonomize human knowledge and provide valuable entry points for scholars and students into the intellectual worlds of academic disciplines, covering their subject matters in more breadth…
How Books Will Become Machines
Book and encyclopedia as antagonistic technologies
Even if Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia is entitled Dic- tionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, its ambition is to be much more than a dictionary. The encyclopedia has aimed since its genesis at being in continuous expansion in order to en- compass the…
The encyclopedia's victory over the book
The first way to continue the book mechanization process consists in taking an encyclopedic perspective on book contents, introducing descriptive formalisms in order to turn structured text into well standardized resources. [...] This de- coupling between form and content has…
The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
Databases are tomorrow's encyclopaedia
Databases are tomorrow’s encyclopaedia. They exceed the capacities of any user. They represent “nature” for the postmodern humanity.