E-scholia: Scenari Digitali per la Comunicazione Scientifica in Ambito Filologico
| Main Author: | Romanello, Matteo |
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| Format: | Thesis PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | it |
| Terbitan: |
, 2008
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/12200/1/805189.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/12200/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The thesis main goal is to suggest an innovative model for electronic web-based journals in the research field of classical studies and, in particular, of classical philology. In Italy, Humanities suffer some delay in the adoption of digital technologies with regard to publishing in scientific journals. However this delay could be avoided by taking advantage of the results obtained in the past recent years by projects started within other disciplines, in particular within physics and maths. The first chapter discusses the effects of the Web on scientific communication systems such as the journal crisis, the appearance of initiatives in collaborative writing (e.g. Wikipedia) and the Open Access Movement. In the second chapter the main specifics of the Classical Literature and Philology field have been identified in order to outline the requirements of an e-journal model which can solve existing problems with the use of electronic resources for research purposes. The third chapter is dedicated to the illustration of the implementation of the project development. In conclusion, the implemented prototype of an e-journal on classical philology highlighted how suitable the text encoding using an XML-compliant format is in order to provide scholars reading on-line publications with advanced features and value added services. Although the manual deep encoding of huge quantities of documents (journal articles, books, commentaries) is a task too expensive to perform with regard to both time and human resources necessary. Therefore it is need to develop in the next future some tools for the automatic extraction of semantic data from large corpora of unstructured discipline-specific texts.