This paper discusses two types of knowledge that are generated by cultural anthropology, narrative knowledge and scientific knowledge. The argument of this article is that narrative knowledge an older form of knowledge that dates to the time when the brain was evolving its capacity for cultural communication, and that scientific knowledge is more recent and depends on writing and other more ela...

In this article, we propose a method to optimise the interaction between the existing knowledge in an organisation and the system of scientific, technical or economic observation. The goal is to identify strategic axes of information gathering starting from a representation of the domain. This method is based on three phases: Projection (establishing connections between knowledge within the org...

Digital libraries allow us to organize a vast amount of publications in a structured way and to extract information of user’s interest. In order to support customized use of digital libraries, we develop novel methods and techniques in the Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Literature (KDSL) research program of our graduate school. It comprises several sub-projects to handle specific problems in...

This chapter introduces the field of computational scientific discovery and provides a brief overview thereof. We first try to be more specific about what scientific discovery is and also place it in the broader context of the scientific enterprise. We discuss the components of scientific behavior, that is, the knowledge structures that arise in science and the processes that manipulate them. W...