Chapter by Clifford Lynch

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

As an aspect of attempting to reduce the amount of sodium in my 
diet, I have withdrawn from the Open Access debate.  I do, 
however, want to call attention to a fascinating document by 
Clifford Lynch, an excerpt of which follows:

"As the scholarly literature moves to digital form, what is 
actually needed to move beyond a system that just replicates all 
of our assumptions that this literature is only read, and read 
only by human beings, one article at a time?  What is needed to 
permit the creation of digital libraries hosting these materials 
that moves beyond the "incunabular" view of the literature, to 
use Greg Crane's very provocative recent characterization.  What 
is needed to allow the application of computational technologies 
to extract new knowledge, correlations and hypotheses from 
collections of scholarly literature?"

Here is the link to the piece (a chapter from a forthcoming book):

http://www.cni.org/staff/cliffpubs/OpenComputation.htm

Joe Esposito