Abstract
Chapter 7: This chapter presents a general historical narrative, which plots the development of knowledge systems against three successive different waves of modernisation. This development is inherently tied to the rise of symbolic logic in the modern era, without which both computation generally, and knowledge systems specifically, would not be possible. To focus on this and other significant points of difference and similarity, the characterisation of the history of this development is intentionally schematic; it does not attempt a broad description of the history of logic, computers or information systems. It does, on the other hand, aim to illustrate the rough affinity between the specific history of knowledge systems and the much broader history of modern industrialisation and capitalism.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Towards A Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research |
Editors | Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Liam Magee |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Chandos |
Pages | 197-213 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781780631745 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781843346012 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- semantic web