User:Alice/XPPL
Stacks
Theoretical approach
The concept of stacks relies on a combination of two meta-theories in information science– collectivism (social constructivism) and constructionism. In broad terms, this means that the emphasis within the concept of the stack is on discourse as knowledge production, social understandings of knowledge and the knowledge as a product of thought-collectives.
When building a stack, one can think of a particular project she was involved in. In the process of working on that project, references built up from many different sources, some contradictory, some irrelevant at first glance, but ultimately useful in creating a broad view around the topic of research. The community the researcher is part of has a major influence in building the reference points that are being accessed within the research. All information that circulates around this particular project is reconstructed in the idea of a stack of books kept beside the bed, one that is consulted often, with books browsed at random when needed.
As Marcia Bates references in her paper on digital libraries, ‘The user’s experience is phenomenologically different from the indexer’s experience. The user ’s task is to describe something that, by definition, he or she does not know (Belkin, 1982)’. What is more, as Harter (1992) points out, discovering that a particular article is relevant to one’s concerns does not necessarily mean that the article is ‘about’ the same subject as one’s originating interest. Generally, catalogers do not index on the basis of these infinitely many possible anticipated needs. T rying to combine both of these experiences made me realize why elements such as stack description, other books in the stack, links between stacks and annotations are so necessary. They are there to guide the reader to the desired topic without necessarily knowing exactly what she is looking for.
Implementation
Adding a new stack
An overview of all the stacks
Adding a book to a stack
Adding a book in a stack to another stack
A stack of books
Conected research
Git branches
When you create a branch within a project in git, you diverge from the main line of development and continue working on a a separate line without affecting the main line. A branch is a movable pointer to one of the snapshots of your project (a commit).
Setting up
To create a new branch, you first have to go to the folder in which you cloned the git repository.
- Check your current status and branch:
git status
git branch -v
- To create a new branch:
git branch name_of_branch
or
git checkout -b name_of_branch
which creates a new branch and moves you inside it
otherwise, to go inside your new branch
git checkout name_of_branch
Now you can start working on your new branch and commiting to it.
Merging the branches
First, move to the main branch and get the latest version, in case other people have pushed their commits to it in the meantime.
checkout master
to see the difference between your version of the master branch and the current version:
git status
git diff
now pull, and resolve conflicts if there are any:
pull origin master
In order to merge both branches, you can use the rebase command to put your latest commits on top of all other commits in the master branch. Then, fix any conflicts that might occur in your text editor, add the changed files, commit, merge and push.
git checkout name_of_branch
git rebase master
fix conflicts
git add name_of_changed_files
git checkout master
git merge name_of_branch
git push origin master
Research questions: If computers made book synopses, or were in charge of categorizing books using the Dewey Decimal Classification, how would they weigh up against humans in making these decisions?
Markov Chains
Markov chains are used to create statistical models of the sequences of letters in a text. Markov chains are now widely used in speech recognition, handwriting recognition, information retrieval, data compression, and spam filtering.
Using a fork of a Markov text generator script (listed below) I generated abstracts of various texts and analyzed the results.
Example 1
Original text: When Computers Were Women, by Jennifer Light
Abstract:
ved credit for innovation or invention. The story presents an apparent paradox. It suggests that women from the history while the way women were breaking into traditionally male occupations during World War II. These two talented engineering.
A closer look at this literature explicates the paradox by revealing wide spread ambivalence about women from the history of ENIAC's female computations during this stage of computers," performing ballistics computations as subprofessional. While celebrating women's work. While celebrated than their own.
The omission of labor. The story of ENIAC's "invention" with special focus on the female computer science perpetuates misconceptions of them were selected to programmer, perceived credit for innovation or invention.
The story of computer, ENIAC, to automate ballistics computers supports Ruth Milkman's thesis of an "idiom of sex-typing" during this stage of computations during the difficulty of these women with mathematical training were ass
Notes
- This text has been OCRd from a scan, so the text quality is not perfect, hence the occasional fragments of words.
Example 2
Original text: A news article on AlJazeera
Abstract:
The government's "Yes" camp. The call for an early polls.
The government has asked parliamentary and presidential polls had previously been slated for snap election. Earlier this year, his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), reached an elections would begin. His comments came after meeting Devlet Bahceli's MHP. State of emergency that will increase the powers to appoint vice president new powers to appoint vice presidential election comes as nationalist Movement led by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey's continued struggle against Kurdish fighters as "terror threats from a northern enclave.
Erdogan said.
Ankara has labeled the prospect of early polls.
The constitutional changed in an April 2017 referendum that will increase the powers to appoint vice presidential system needs to be confirmed by the elections to be re-elected in the vote give the next president. The snap election commission, he said, but preparations would begin.
Resources
- https://kgullikson88.github.io/blog/markov-chain.html
- https://xiaoxu193.github.io/PyTeaser/
- https://github.com/alicestrt/MarkovTextGenerator (only one that works for me so far)