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The Humanities Take on Data Mining via Google Books

22 June 2010
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The Humanities are “Going Google”, according to Marc Parry of The Chronicle, in a piece he wrote a few weeks ago.
The gist of the article is that some Humanities scholars are very interested in data mining the texts scanned in for the Google Books Project.
Why do they want to use Big Data mining techniques [...]

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Google Books Settlement Paths Forward Diagram Released

4 March 2010
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Jonathan Band has developed a diagram charting the possible outcomes of the Google Books settlement. Designed by Tricia Donovan, the diagram is called, “GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement”, and has been released by the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Association of [...]

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Gaiman’s “MirrorMask” Library Cleverness

20 February 2010
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This past week I watched Neil Gaiman’s “Mirror Mask“. The book-as-film chronicles the dream of a teenager whose mother has become ill and is undergoing surgery. In the scene below, the teenager, Helena, goes to the library with her New Best Friend, Valentine, to find clues to a missing charm. They arrive via flying books [...]

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World Wide Mush? An Argument Against the “Internet as a Collective”

10 January 2010
Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget

Researcher Jaron Lanier has an interesting article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “World Wide Mush“. The article is a plug for his book, You Are Not a Gadget. Although the author does not specifically discuss large-scale data management, I am including it because he addressed “the collective” work of the Internet, upon which [...]

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The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

16 December 2009
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

John Markoff, the author of a New York Times article called, “A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing“, writes that Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle have edited a book that discusses the “Fourth Paradigm”. The book, The Fourth Paradigm Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, is in honor of Jim Gray, who argued [...]

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