Interoperability - subject classification/terminology

[Pedro Álvarez Martínez]

Dear Stevan,
The most recent work using the technique in the previos papers, has been
applied to Economics.

"There are 19 different areas in Economics. Research papers in Economics are
assigned to each area according to their topical content described by their
descriptors. Codifying areas and descriptors allow Boolean algebra to be
applied, and latent information related amongst areas can be obtained.
Processing data from Econlit database, it has been selected the Quantitative
Methods descriptors, and found out the presence of this descriptors in all
19 Economics areas. The identity of the Quantitative Methods descriptors for
each area reveal the quantitaive research profile in that area".

Pedro Alvarez
Prof. PhD. D.M.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Interoperability - subject
classification/terminology


> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Franklin, Rosemary (franklra) wrote:
>
> > The only quibble with your bet is that humanities scholars/researchers
often
> > work in the realm of abstract (soft) ideas and arguments which are not
so
> > easily searched and retrieved, while the sciences are concrete
(hard)with
> > data and vocabulary more easily discovered.  How do you search nuances?
>
> I don't know of any evidence that inverted full-text boolean search
> is any less effective in one field than another. (Does anyone have any
> such evidence?)
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> > -Original Message-----
> > From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:07 PM
> > To: BOAI Forum
> > Cc: september98-forum at amsci-forum.amsci.org
> > Subject: [BOAI] Re: Interoperability - subject
> > classification/terminology [bcc][faked-from][mx]
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Franklin, Rosemary (franklra) wrote:
> >
> > > Generally you are searching in natural language, depending on the
fields
> > > tagged and how the file is organized.  Portals such as the HUMBUL site
and
> > > others organized around broad subject areas are value-added OAI
searching
> > > and have controlled vocabulary added, or they are in the process of
> > adding.
> >
> > I would like to make a bet about values that will prove to be worth and
not
> > worth
> > adding to a full-text corpus of refereed research journal articles.
(Note
> > that
> > this bet pertains *only* to the refereed journal article corpus, but
that
> > does
> > include all disciplines, including the humanities):
> >
> > Until and unless XML tagging of the full-texts themselves prevails -- a
> > desirable outcome that is largely independent of the urgent goal of open
> > access -- nothing will come even close to matching (let alone beating)
> > the power of boolean search over the inverted full-texts, google-style
> > (but restricted to the OAI-compliant domain).
> >
> > Please remember that most researchers currently search their abstracts
> > databases and
> > their toll-access journal content databases without the help of any
subject
> > classification taxonomies. This will continue to be the case for the
> > open-access
> > full-text database, once it grows to a significant size. Journal
articles --
> > especially when they include inverted full-text -- are not, and never
> > were, searched via prepackaged subject classifications or taxonomies
> > or aggregations. And even those taxonomies and aggregations that exist
> > were generated by machine analysis of the database rather than by human
> > classification. (In other words, they were generated by "semantic-web"
> > -- i.e., syntactic-web! -- computations on the full-text database.)
> >
> > See Subject Thread:
> >     "Interoperability - subject classification/terminology"
> >     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2384.html
> >
> > I know that especially in the humanities, many scholars and librarians
are
> > betting
> > otherwise. It will be interesting to see what the outcome turns out to
be.
> >
> > But let it be stressed again: This has nothing to do with open access,
> > except
> > inasmuch as it is extremely important not to hold back open access for
even
> > one
> > microsecond in order to wait for classification/taxonomy values to be
added
> > -- any
> > more than open access should be delayed in any way to wait for
preservation
> > values
> > to be added.
> >
> > The intuitive point to keep in mind is that we are talking about OAI
> > eprint space, not google space. Needle/haystack problems in google space
> > vanish when it is contracted to just the OAI eprint subspace. OAI eprint
> > space
> > consists of the yearly 2,500,000 articles in the planet's 24,000
> > peer-reviewed
> > journals in all fields and languages, before (preprints) and after peer
> > review (postprints).
> >
> > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#What-is-Eprint
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
> >
> > NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
> > access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
> > the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03):
> >     http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
> >     http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
> >     Posted discussion to: september98-forum at amsci-forum.amsci.org
> >
> > Dual Open-Access Strategy:
> >     BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
> >             journal whenever one exists.
> >     BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
> >             toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
> >     http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
> >     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm
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