There was a great post today on O’Reilly Radar referencing a post by Jo Guldi: “How Google Books is Changing Academic History”.
To quote:
I was idly trying a search on “roads” to see what sort of a literature would turn up for the period of my dissertation research, 1740-1850. I didn’t expect much. I’ve […]
Wikipedia’s use in education continues to be controversial. I think that’s a pity, because the Wikipedia contains huge amounts of useful information, and - perhaps even more importantly - using it teaches very important lessons in the analysis of information sources.
In this post I’m going to summarize a few simple methods for analyzing any given […]
My colleague Sarah Hayman & I have had a paper on Taxonomy directed Folksonomies accepted at the World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council. That’s excellent news, because it gives me some prompting to get all the excellent discussions I’ve had with people about the concept written down somewhere.
Many thanks to […]
Kerrie blogged yesterday about a recent release of data from the ABS. The bit which caught my attention was:
my first thought was - what lovely statistical stuff for kids to play with in Excel. For example in a file called Schools by category, we have snapshots of numbers of schools in Government, Catholic, and Independent […]
Just a link for those interested:
Automatic Classification of Web resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classification
There is also an implementation in the form of a directory and a search.
