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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
Simulating publishing history 1800-2100 under different access policies. Terrence A. Maxwell, Is copyright necessary?
First Monday, September 2004. Abstract: "Copyright is a legal mechanism
for promotion of useful knowledge. However, it is not the only means
society could use to encourage information dissemination, and several
alternative models have been suggested over the last 200 years. This
article provides the results of a dynamic simulation of the publishing
industry in the United States from 1800 to 2100, and tests the impact
of different protection schemes on the development of authorship, the
publishing industry, and reader access. It closes with a discussion of
intellectual property information policy decisions that can be
currently made, and their likely impacts on domestic and international
copyright protection." [Open Access News]
10:41:02 AM  Google It!.
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Digicult Techwatch - Natural Language Processing. http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php
Digicult is a fabulous publication aimed at the cultural and
scientific heritage sectors funded by the European Union. In addition
to their newsletter and thematic issues, they produce shorter documents called "Techwatches" that help to introduce a specific field of technology to their readers and draw out some of the implications for the future.
TechWatch 14 concerns the broad field of Natural Language Processing
- which can variously include everything from text parsing software, to
speech recognition, to automatic translation and knowledge mining. This
paper starts out with a broad overview of the field and then moves on
to draw out some of the potential uses for the technology. Well worth a
read to get a sense of what this truly disruptive technology may hold
(though with the caveat that this has long been an area that has
over-promised and under-delivered). - SWL [EdTechPost]
10:24:17 AM Google It!.
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