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Physics Colloquium 30th October 2015 delivered by Professer Paul Ginsparg

Over twenty-five years into the internet era, over twenty years into the WorldWideWeb era, fifteen years into the Google era, and a few years past the Facebook/Twitter era, we’ve yet to converge on a new long-term methodology for scholarly research communication. I will provide a sociological overview of our current metastable state, and then a technical discussion of the practical implications of literature and usage data considered as computable objects, using arXiv as exemplar. From the physics standpoint, there is a surprising amount of statistical mechanics in text-mining and machine learning.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Paul Ginsparg
Keywords
Physics
physics colloquium
WorldWideWeb
metastable state
computable objects
arXiv
statistical mechanics
text-mining
machine learning
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/11/2015
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