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From Babel To Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections
Data mining as a new humanities method
These computational methods, which allow us to find patterns, determine relationships, categorize documents, and extract information from massive corpuses, will form the basis for new tools for research in the humanities and other disciplines in the coming decade.
How Books Will Become Machines
We shape our tools and they shape us
We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Elements for a system that can deal with scientific discourse knowledge
A. Hypothesis Creation/Identification tools – to manually or automatically create and/or extract hypotheses and relationships B. Argumentation Representation tools – to allow user interaction with the knowledge presented, and discussions between the authors/users C. Discourse…
Mendeley, Connotea, And The Perils Of Free Services « The Scholarly Kitchen
Decoupling services for authors and readers
These economic realities stand in stark contrast to the notion of the “decoupled journal,” a vision of the future where each aspect of academic publishing is separated out and purchased by the author in an a la carte fashion. So far these services are not providing much…
Online Tools To Support Literature-based Discovery In The Life Sciences
Literature-based discovery (lbd)
Not only are text-mining and information extraction tools needed to render the biomedical literature accessible but the results of these tools can also assist researchers in the formulation and evaluation of novel hypotheses. This requires an additional set of technological…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities has a genealogy, not a definition
Let’s be honest—there is no definition of digital humanities, if by definition we mean a consistent set of theoretical concerns and research methods that might be aligned with a given discipline, whether one of the established fields or an emerging…