Technology and theological libraries

Censorship, new technology and libraries

Recent developments in entertainment and communications technology have created challenges for those who make classification decisions and who enforce censorship law. High speed private internet access, DVD technology, mobile telephony and advances in video gaming have all created challenges for censorship legislation originally designed to deal with films, videos and paper publications. The la...

Scientific and Theological Realism

In this paper I shall explore the parallels and contrasts between scientific and theological realism. I shall start by providing an outline of the various aspects of scientific realism before looking at these in more detail and in comparison to theological realism. I hope that by this comparison with the well-developed debates between various species of scientific antirealists and realists, tha...

E-Book Technology in Libraries: An Overview

The shift towards electronically mediated texts entails major structural issues for libraries and the publishers and aggregators who supply them. Stakeholders within the digital supply chain are struggling to re-conceptualise the book as artefact (Esposito 2003). Academic and scholarly libraries are at the forefront of these changes and many are preparing for a significant shift from physical t...

Human Language Technology in Digital Libraries

In this paper we focus on the important role of human language technology as one of the key technologies for the universal access to worldwide digital libraries. In particular, linguistic barriers caused by the multilingual nature of the global information pool require solutions from cross-language information retrieval and machine translation. In our research we developed a machine translation...

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