I think controlled vocabularies can be used to improve text-minning
process, to entities recongnition (persons, institutions and critical
concepts) ... I think thats... but I'm a not neutral about this.... because
I am developer of a controlled vocabularies tool :)

Sorry about my english :/

2016-04-08 3:24 GMT-03:00 Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]>:

> On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Gregory Markus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers: "The
> >> ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the
> >> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak
> >> investigations. Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum
> >> where reporters could post the fruits of their research, as well
> >> as database search program called “Blacklight” that allowed the
> >> teams to hunt for specific names, countries or sources.”
> >>
> >>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/how-a-cryptic-message-interested-in-data-led-to-the-panama-papers.html
> >
> >
> https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration
>
>
> Based on my VERY quick read of the articles linked above, a group of
> people created a collaborative system for collecting, indexing, searching,
> and analyzing data/information. In the end, they facilitated the creation
> of knowledge. That sure sounds like a library to me. Kudos! I believe our
> profession has many things to learn from this example, and two of those
> things include: 1) you need full text content, and 2) controlled
> vocabularies are not a necessary component of the system. —ELM
>



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Diego Ferreyra