CMAC Rendez-Vous with Jacob Hill, PhD student, School of Information & Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Join us for Rendez-Vous with Jacob Hill, PhD Student, School of Information & Library Science, on Thursday, October 26th at 4:30pm in Room A266 Bay 10 on the second floor of Smith Warehouse. Free and open to the public.

"Citation Networks as Reading Infrastructure"

Citation networks have been useful in information retrieval on the web, modern evaluations of academic research, identifying the boundaries of disciplines, academic research in the history of ideas, and a number of other areas. It stands to reason that applying similar techniques to historical texts would also prove fruitful. A number of challenges must be overcome first, however. I will briefly describe the texts and the technical hurdles to automatically detecting citations and then pose a few theoretical challenges relating to the interpretation of citations. We will spend the remainder of the session talking through some of these challenges.