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Chapter by Clifford Lynch



As an aspect of attempting to reduce the amount of sodium in my diet, I have withdrawn from the Open Access debate. I do, however, want to call attention to a fascinating document by Clifford Lynch, an excerpt of which follows:

"As the scholarly literature moves to digital form, what is actually needed to move beyond a system that just replicates all of our assumptions that this literature is only read, and read only by human beings, one article at a time? What is needed to permit the creation of digital libraries hosting these materials that moves beyond the "incunabular" view of the literature, to use Greg Crane's very provocative recent characterization. What is needed to allow the application of computational technologies to extract new knowledge, correlations and hypotheses from collections of scholarly literature?"

Here is the link to the piece (a chapter from a forthcoming book):

http://www.cni.org/staff/cliffpubs/OpenComputation.htm

Joe Esposito