Some interesting new data mining projects are shortly to get underway. They’re aimed at making ‘smart’ software bots that make life easier for researchers…
* automated tracking/mapping of topic lifecycles, across all forms of scholarly discussion
* automatic identifying of common forms of argument used in different disciplines
* software to automatically generate Dewey Decimal Classification-based tags from existing repository metadata
* software to automatically generate links to texts discussing the same persons, places and events
I’d say No.3 has a good chance of success.
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