What is Local Knowledge? Digital Humanities and Yuan Dynasty Disasters in Imperial China's Local Gazetteers

What is Local Models Semantics ? ∗

In recent papers a new semantics, called Local Models Semantics, was presented and used to provide a foundation to reasoning with contexts. Local Models Semantics captures and makes precise the two main principles underlying contextual reasoning: the, so-called, Principle of Locality and Principle of Compatibility. In this chapter we aim at explaining the main intuitions underlying Local Models...

local historiography under the qajarid dynasty

local historiography in iran, precedence of which can be traced back to the iranian pre-islamic era, saw a golden age of quantitative and qualitative growth under the qajar dynasty.hence,most of our country's cities and rigions possessed at least one local history.after examining some fifty printed works on local histories of the qajarid period, it has been studied in the article the characteri...

Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge

Information system research that recognizes, supports, and enables access of diverse knowledge communities online has become a major concern. Of particular concern is how these digital resources can support and preserve local identities and promote grass-roots involvement in creating the infrastructure of devolved governance. The aim of this article is to expose some of the conceptual obstacles...

Sharing knowledge engineering for digital humanities

In this paper, we present a first attempt to integrate Collaboration Engineering with Lean Six Sigma principles applied to Project-based Learning. On the one hand, collaboration is a social and interactive process, where participants join efforts toward a shared common goal. On the other hand, Lean Six Sigma is a unique methodology integrating a shared language, statistical measuring and effect...

Global Knowledge, Local Solutions: Interest Rate and Monetary Policy