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Mining For Data
The discussion about the rise of text mining software in relation to the Digital Humanities caused me to reconsider what the future of library collections and archives could look like. There is a view that at present, integrating text and data mining software into collections and archive research could provide researchers and collection managers withContinue reading “Mining For Data”
Bringing Metadata Out of the Catalogue
Learning about how metadata has evolved with the growth of the digital world made me think about not only what metadata traditionally is, but what it could be. If metadata is the ‘short, structured and standardized descriptions of information resources’ (Bawden and Robinson, 2012, p.108) what information could fall within the parameters of being metadata?Continue reading “Bringing Metadata Out of the Catalogue”
Lockdown, and What the Digital World Cannot yet Replace
At the start of 2020 technology and digital data already played a large part in our society, allowing us to access the ‘constantly growing amount of valuable information available today, on any topic’ (Floridi, 2015, p.489) with ease. We could talk, shop, stream, and search without leaving our homes. Then lockdown was imposed, and overnightContinue reading “Lockdown, and What the Digital World Cannot yet Replace”
