Premodern Chinese texts pose problems that are difficult to accommodate with the current TEI text model, which bases the main hierarchy of a text on its structural content, rather than on a hierarchy that models the pages, lines and character positions. For the TEI, this is a sensible decision and has led to the abolishment of elements like and in the latest release of the Guideli...

This text presents a set of reflections about the use of electronic publishing in African countries, as a means of access to scientific information. It includes brief remarks about electronic publishing, their advantages and benefits. The text continues with a discussion about the need to find solutions to the problem of the different degrees of access to scientific and technological informatio...

Zuboff contended that informating would require new forms of skill and knowledge to take advantage of the potential of informating. This paper addresses some of the implications of this contention. In order to do so, this paper extracts from her work, two aspects which provide the basis for further investigation: These two aspects are the way electronic text enables activities to be freed from ...

THENUMBER OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS in the humanities is growing fast and many libraries are seeking to acquire them from various sources or to provide access to them. Building, in part, on the experience of those scholars who work with electronic texts in literary and linguistic computing, this article surveys some issues which libraries may need to consider as they begin to establish collectiondeve...

Text mining refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. Text processing involves in search and replace in electronic format of text. A number of approaches have been developed to represent and classify text documents. Most of the approach tries to attain good classification performance while taking a document only by words. We propose a concept based methodology instea...