Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 561.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:40:32 +0000
From: Miles Efron <mefron@metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0557 interoperability? intelligent e-journals?
Willard McCarty wrote...
> deal. Can anyone recommend a thoughtful, non-specialist treatment of
this
> topic?
A good, high-level discussion of interoperability is:
Paepcke, A., Chen-Chuan K. C., Garcia-Molina, H., and Winograd, T. (1998)
"Interoperability for Digital Libraries Worldwide" in Communications of
the ACM. 41(4). 33-43.
The paper comes out of work at the Stanford Digital Library project, but
it treats interoperability in a very general sense.
Best.
-Miles Efron
__________________________________
Miles Efron
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
mefron@metalab.unc.edu
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 557.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
> [1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (50)
> >
> [2] From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU> (24)
> Subject: Intelligent E-Journals
>
>
> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:42:36 +0000
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
> Subject: interoperability?
>
> Recently I had occasion to look into the question of "interoperability", in
> the course of which I ran into Paul Miller's essay, "Interoperability: What
> is it and Why should I want it?", Ariadne 24 (June 2000),
> <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/>. If I understand him
> correctly, interoperability is the defining quality of networks and
> networking of all sorts. It seems a term of such uncertain limits that it
> can easily mean very little, though actually I think it means a very great
> deal. Can anyone recommend a thoughtful, non-specialist treatment of this
> topic?
>
> Meanwhile interoperability prompts a question. I hope you can be patient
> while I stumble my way to it.
>
> Miller offers by way of definition the statement that "to be interoperable,
> one should actively be engaged in the ongoing process of ensuring that the
> systems, procedures and culture of an organisation are managed in such a
> way as to maximise opportunities for exchange and re-use of information,
> whether internally or externally." Under the political sense of the term he
> observes that "the decision to make resources more widely available has
> implications for the organisations concerned (where this may be seen as a
> loss of control or ownership), their staff (who may not possess the skills
> required to support more complex systems and a newly dispersed user
> community), and the end users." He goes on to say that, "As traditional
> boundaries between institutions and disciplines begin to blur, researchers
> increasingly require access to information from a wide range of sources,
> both within and without their own subject area." Do we always and
> unrestrictedly want this?
>
> It seems to me that at the technical level it's hard to argue with
> interoperability, though this is no simple matter. If, for example, I want
> to link directly to the online Lewis & Short lexicon at Perseus for the
> definition of a lemma in the reference work I am making, I find that quite
> often what I call a lemma is not one in L&S. This may seem trivial, but it
> isn't, or not always. Considerable editorial intelligence and deep
> knowledge of Latin is behind the choice of lemmata in L&S; I aspire to my
> choices being as good, but driven by different editorial principles they
> will often be different. If in such a small matter we're at an impasse, how
> about bigger ones? Isn't it the case that the mediation between
> incompatible schemes (that are the enemy of interoperability) requires
> other than artificial intelligence?
>
> I solve the problem with the online L&S by providing a link to the page at
> Perseus where one types in the word and receives an analysis back, so that
> the user of my thing can exercise some judgement -- i.e. knowing that I
> distinguish between singular and plural nominals at the level of the lemma,
> he or she can enter the singular. I wonder if that human intervention isn't
> what we'll always need.
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
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>
> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:43:33 +0000
> From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
> Subject: Intelligent E-Journals
>
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>
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