MRC PhD student Sam Grabus and Temple University’s Peter Logan presented their paper at Digital Humanities 2019 in Utrecht, Netherlands, on Thursday, July 11th.
The presentation, entitled, “Knowledge Representation: Old, New, and Automated Indexing,” shared comparative topic relevance results from automatically indexing 19th century Encyclopedia Britannica entries with two controlled vocabularies: an historical knowledge organization system developed by Ephraim Chambers, as well as the contemporary Library of Congress Subject Headings.