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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 > -- Diego Ferreyra