Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 52.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:41:49 +0100
From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Early Modern Information Overload
Willard,
The latest issue of The Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number
1 (January 2003) has a delightful series of articles on Early Modern
Information Overload. David Rosenberg provides an introduction to the
topic, followed by:
Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700, by
Ann Blair
The Many Books of Nature: Renaissance Naturalists and Information Overload,
by Brian W. Ogilvie
From Philology to Fossils: The Biblical Encyclopedia in Early Modern
Europe, by Jonathan Sheehan
A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia (1728)
"the Best Book in the Universe", by Richard Yeo
I think a close examination of the analog methods devised to deal with this
information overload and issues related thereto, could well provide some
insight into possible strategies for digital methods addressing the same
problem.
Patrick
-- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model-- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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