Good news for the DR2 Research Group!
We are pleased to announce that the DR2 research group has been awarded a grant by Fondazione CRT for the project REPOSUM.
The project is based on a public-private partnership and, in particular, on the collaboration between the DR2 research group (Guido Bonino, the project coordinator, Enrico Pasini and Paolo Tripodi), two computer scientists of the University of Turin (Daniele Radicioni and Alessandro Mazzei) and Synapta SRL (directed by Federico Morando).
The present project mainly deals with the history of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Taking into account the metadata of more than 20,000 PhD dissertations in philosophy defended in the US in the last 40 years, we have analyzed the keywords occurring in the abstracts, as well as the geographical distribution and chronology of the theses. In particular, we have focused on the relationship between the subject of the theses and the future academic success of the PhD candidates. So far this work has been carried out by applying relatively unsophisticated procedures.
The development of this work, however, requires for the future the use of (at least partly) automated procedures, which are not available yet. By collaborating with Synapta, the DR2 group aims to create such tools. Of course, the creation of the digital tools does not start from scratch, as it is possible to integrate open source solutions, developed for other applications and other domains, and use Linked Open Data protocols. The tools will also be tested on a different corpus – consisting of Italian PhD theses in philosophy – provided by the Central National Library of Rome.
