- ARCHIVE / Cultural Informatics
- 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium
I am going to talk at the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 5-11 August 2007, Kirchberg, Austria. It has been a last minute invitation for PhiloSURFical, but it’s even more appreciated! And by peeping at the conference program, I realized there’s another hypertextual version of the Tractatus: the one created by Luciano Bazzochi from the university […]
- Discovery: philosophy in the digital Era
It looks like the semantic web rumor is spreading out fast, also in the philosophy circles: Discovery is co-financed by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme and was launched in November 2006. It has a twofold aim: to prepare an extensive collection of scholarly editions of primary sources and scholarly contributions for the study […]
- Philosophy On the Air
It’s nice to see the ancient philosophy keeping up with the new technologies – shows how the soul of philosophy is immortal, and linked to men instead of publication mechanisms. There’s a new podcast available, Philosophy Bites, created by Nigel Warburton (who teaches at the OU) and David Edmonds. The podcast makes available interviews on […]
- Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
Monday morning, I’m trying to re-structure the knowledge base about wittgenstein according to the re-newed version of the ontology. It’s not as much fun as playing guitar, but i gotta do it anyway! But some good news came in too: the project for semanticiz-ing (my word) the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is getting more robust, […]
- NINES : SW faceted browser – by SpecLab
I tried it out last night, and the interface seems really rich and powerful. It’s NINES, a new digital scholarship tool that puts together SW and collaborative tagging in an application targeted and USABLE by anyone, I believe. Worth trying out.. N I N E S stands for a Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship, […]
- Philosophical Search engine
Hi guys! A new philosophical search engine is available out there. It’s called Noesis. Noesis is a limited area search engine for open access, academic philosophy. Built with Google’s new Co-op program, Noesis allows users to search the combined webspace of our set of indexed professional associations, philosophy departments, faculty websites, online journals and reference […]
- Turning the pages of literature
It’s a new service offered by the British Library, consisting on a Shockwave app that lets you flick through the scanned pages of various authors’ works. Not particularly exciting from the technology point of view, but quite amazing if you think that you’re looking at William Blake’s notebook, directly from your home computer… Explore Blake’s […]
- The Internet Classics Archive
The works in the Internet Classics Archive come from two major sources, an archive of unformatted electronic texts from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech and the Perseus Project from Tufts University. Additional works come from Project Gutenberg and other Internet sites, including James Fieser’s Philosophy Text Collection, part of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy […]
- Text Encoding Initiative – a historical paper
I read this interesting paper from Allen Renear, met at SoSornet-06 a few weeks ago in London. Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding, Allen Renear, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University November 3, 1995. I just managed to put my hands on an old working draft, but it seems complete. It’s a seminal […]
- The Nora Project
The Nora Project aims at putting together a big pool of digital texts in the humanities in order to develop and test data mining techniques specific to this domain. Various collaborations with other institutions have provided them already a testbed of about 10,000 literary texts in English, from the 19th century, or about 5 GB […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
