Monthly Archives: July 2008

Spelunking text data

One of the ARTFUL developers presented the PhiloLogic and its PhiloMine extension. Both are free text searching databases and tools. Both sets of code are designed for large sets of data which does raise the question whether it might be useful to develop a set of tools for smaller data holdings or individuals.

July 6, 2008 – 12:12 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval, Text Mining | Comments (0)

Communities of repositories

I was recently at the Dilemmas of Digitization conference held at the Maison Francaise in Oxford and organised by the Cost 32 group, a project looking at creating open scholarly communities online across Europe. One of the points that interested me is the idea that repositories need to develop services of their own to the […]

July 6, 2008 – 12:06 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval, Open Knowledge | Comments (0)