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I am currently studying Digital Humanities at King's College London.
Previously I have attained three first class honours BA- degrees at the University of Groningen: namely in History, Information Science, and Philosophy.
During my undergraduate years I was a research-assistant of professor John Nerbonne, with whom I have worked on a method for finding statistically significant differences in syntax between collections of texts.
I have presented this research, as well as LogiLogi, at various international conferences.
I hope my work is, or can be, of much use to you.
Recent writings
Weak points of LogiLogi: Yet ano...
Another point on which LogiLogi might be weak, is that (1) it is very much like a blogging platform, or that (2) blogs are already covering the ground between conversations and journal-papers that LogiLogi aims for. The second issue is (partially) dealth with over here, and we will now go into the ...read on
Why do academics tend to come up...
While visiting conferences in Digital Humanities, and now lately the LiquidPub workshop, I have seen many great and well-thought out ideas, especially considering the complex problems many of the projects are trying to solve (such as encoding complicated documents). However, I have also seen quite ...read on
Weak points of LogiLogi: Willing...
An issue that is often brought up by people attending presentations on LogiLogi, is that of whether academics really would want to share their ideas through anything else than credited journal-papers. I personally think that there are enough academics who have way more ideas than they can turn into ...read on
Weak points of LogiLogi: Usabili...
I think one of the foremost weak points of LogiLogi is its usability. Usability, is one of the hardest things to get right, and it consists of more than clarity, or simply being usable. Eespecially a natural workflow seems to be missing from LogiLogi. That is, many things are not easily done on ...read on
How should academic software-pro...
Academic software-projects can be funded, in three basic ways: Through (large) grants, such as those by the European Union. By industry, as a commercial project. As side-projects by individual researchers or volunteers. All three seem to bring their own unique problems and benefits. Projects funded ...read on
What motivates people in large a...
What motivates people who are working on projects such as LiquidPub? Do they want to create a successful platform that will be used by many researchers, or is their main aim research, or even just attracting the funding that helps them at creating publishable, 'solid', papers? The latter seems to ...read on
Do academics want to keep updati...
Another thing I wonder is whether academics would at all want to keep updating papers? I could imagine that they like it when a paper or project that is finished, is truely finished. To speak from my personal experience, I like it when something is published and done. It gives a sense of ...read on
PhilPapers: Publication
PhilPapers comes into view after an essay or paper has been completed. If an article is not published by other means, it can, first of all, be `published' on PhilPapers . Here it will normally be briefly reviewed by a subsection expert. This usage is again most useful for beginning authors. A ...read on
Conclusion
To conclude, the Stanford Encyclopedia , Google Scholar , and PhilPapers are each very different projects. The first is a reference work, backed by a high-status university, and most useful for the orientation phase of research. The second is a search-engine for academic papers founded by a ...read on
