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Culturomica

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culturomics for those who love the original, is the new bibliographic information service that scientometric innovative humanities computing - so that the NYT is willing to talk about "Humanities 2.0" - backed by the inevitable Google Harvard researchers who developed the chart of a n-gram Markov on a population of data extracted from 4% of all books ever written in six languages \u200b\u200bfor a total of 500 million words in Google Books, "write a word or phrase in one of seven languages \u200b\u200b(English, French, German, English, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese) and look how its frequency of use has changed over the past centuries' Calls the home page of Culturomics .

Today, however, the resource is still the only English language optimized for the period 1800-2000. Scientists from various disciplines from Harvard University have created, so a Google Books N-gram Viewer, which provides statistical data in different fields such as lexicography, grammar, collective memory, the use of technology, fame, censorship, the historical epidemiology.

To cite an example given by Patricia Cohen, writing the word "women" compared with "men" you can see the evolution of the frequency of two terms, stable until the arrival of feminism 70s which overturned and increased the frequency ratio.

The resource, say Harvard, you can accelerate, among other things, the study of the evolution of language for updating dictionaries.

• Digitally mapping the republic of Letters
• Digital keys for unlocking the Humanities' riches
• billion in 500 words, new window on cultures
• Quantitative analysis of cultures using millions of digitized books

[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]

Marketshpere Unclaimed

Grids and Clouds (and crowd)

It is meant grid and cloud , implied computing, where the first is known as distributed computing architecture for processing large amounts of data through the coordinated sharing of resources within a virtual organization such as grid computing science at CERN, for example, and that is the historical source of the second and where the borders between the resources are not as detailed and not as serving the most sophisticated (just a series of home PCs) to share, especially documents and information to reduce costs, simplify management and the gift of the risks to the supplier, that supplier is not goods but services ("Products are getting services," wrote Marshall McLuhan in 1966): Everything that we use on the network including the bank branch is now perched on a cloud somewhere, somewhere ... with such an absence of legal safeguards for those who fear worry about so many in the hands of so few large organizations to foster such complex (which will be worth $ 150 billion in 2013) from which our data store "sensitive" and which was not always certain to maintain its exclusive property.

Then came 2.0, which has seen fit to expand grids and clouds of machines in a crowd of people: computing crowd, in fact, or source crowd, to make the bloated concept of computer as a physical object (as well as the individual mind, at least to believe cinemap , "The Librarian" 3 -4/2010 ) together with the obsolescence of the concepts and practices download and upload because everything is held elsewhere in a more accessible and therefore always available.

With grids and clouds, companies such as InnoCentive , for one thing, when selling statistical analysis and economic, industrial design and problem solving investments, "light" infrastructure would otherwise be impossible without the use of distributed computing. But there are not only in other areas, Wikipedia and Facebook: there is just too Digitaltkoot the Finnish national library to digitize its texts apportionment among the users voluntary correction of the characters are not recognized by the scanner and that looks like a video game show, to escape the boredom of repetition, to win something and to feel part of a community helping to Finnish culture.

How big is this grid of clouds in the hands of the crowd? Not that much, apparently: less than a 1 followed by hundred zeros - the number Googol - (but The approximate amount of chess games as possible and 120 of 10) and that is always, however, larger than the estimate of the number of subatomic particles in the universe known as "known", which they say is around "only" around the power 70 of 10 ...

[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]

Get Wellprayers Be With You

Hita-hita

That is, in Japanese, something that gets soft and smooth ( Smoothly and gently ) explains how a document from the Digital Repository Federation Japan Policy advocacy (advocacy, support, advocacy ...) 's in Open Access institutional repositories. It is contrary to that method, tiring and poor result, so-called "carrot and stick" in general use in our world, through which universities, research institutions or governments try to "force" the researchers to deposit their results documentation of their activities in scientific archives of free access to the international community, suggesting (carrot) high visibility and high impact factors as well (stick) the knowledge that only the material stored in them will be used to assess the individual scientific productivity also for the further funding of research.

Like everything wants to adopt the method of sweetness, these penetrations require long and patient preparation of softening and moistening of the psychological part, through extensive information campaigns run by librarians, conversations with researchers, dissemination of information material, publication step by step the results, sharing of problems and call for discussion of ideas for their solution. A solution with the best outcomes of knowledge management that, not surprisingly, is Japan's industrial strategy by ...

so today I am in Japan the 122 institutions that together hold 760,000 items (an average of more than 6,000 items to institution a total of 250 European archives that are worth a total of two and a half million documents, with an average of a thousand items to institution).

• Hita-hita: Japan's soft power movement for open access

[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]