tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post5567206671653189775..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Literature MapsRichard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-16196834713415182732008-09-19T01:36:00.000-04:002008-09-19T01:36:00.000-04:00Check out aworldmap.com for artist Ashley Hunt's v...Check out aworldmap.com for artist Ashley Hunt's version of this idea. Spectacular.dting_dtonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12451189212914851913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-42824126690594261162008-08-18T16:14:00.000-04:002008-08-18T16:14:00.000-04:00Franco Moretti of Stanford writes about mapping li...<A HREF="http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=84" REL="nofollow">Franco Moretti</A> of Stanford writes about mapping literature; you may find it interesting in the least.<BR/><BR/>And I'm sure others are reminded of Borges' story, <A HREF="http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html" REL="nofollow">The Library of Babel</A>.Jaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265489395138702227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-49883403873303799992008-08-18T06:23:00.000-04:002008-08-18T06:23:00.000-04:00For a pretty extensive example of this, see http:/...For a pretty extensive example of this, see http://www.macrovu.com/CCTWeb/CCT1/CCTMap1.htmlUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09932069856393763780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-82674849784759312892008-08-17T21:05:00.000-04:002008-08-17T21:05:00.000-04:00There are bibliography projects already (I'm think...There are bibliography projects already (I'm thinking of the Chalmers/Bourget Mind Papers effort) which use a certain degree of automation. An automated citation-scraping project, leveraged off projects like that perhaps, could provide a skeleton for a human editing effort.<BR/><BR/>The advantage of that would be an immediate map of connections showing what paper cites what. Editors could then dive in wiki-style and edit the connections (and add to them), and tag them as responses, comments, corrections or retractions to the cited paper.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that's the sort of thing that would galvanise a broad human work-effort: because even seeing what the automated system generates would be interesting for people. It might be a better 'business model' for the project then a "from ground up" effort by experts, though obviously less authoritative from the get-go.<BR/><BR/>That of course assumes that automated scraping and/or existing list extraction is even feasible to build a connection database. There's limited data presented on Blackwell-Synergy pages for example and I hear there are some other tricks that can be used, but it would take some serious IT-noused effort over and above academic expertise.GreatLeapingCrabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11758589732675180645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-74379035238054087462008-08-17T19:45:00.000-04:002008-08-17T19:45:00.000-04:00This would be an awesome project; and there are al...This would be an awesome project; and there are all sorts of variations on it that could be developed if the original projects went well.<BR/><BR/>For the actual mapping something like <A HREF="http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/" REL="nofollow">Exhibit project</A> would seem ideal.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698839146562734910noreply@blogger.com