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#bridge
Boro Method (wikipedia Contributors)
Waterloo Bridge and spatiotemporal extent
As an example, take “Waterloo Bridge” as a concept. The first thing we ask is “does it have spatial and temporal extent ?”. It has spatial extent; it spans the River Thames. However, when we examine the temporal extent we realise there have been two bridges at that site. The…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A politician promises a bridge without a river
‘Hell, no. I can’t stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.’
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
A contribution is a long bridge to the new
A publication has a high contribution if it creates a “long bridge” from what we knew already to something new which people will develop based on it.