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Dernière conférence du cycle « Extraction, traitement et visualisation de données complexes en géographie (XVIIIe – XIXe siècle) » (22/06/2023)

By 17/05/2023juin 23rd, 2023Agenda scientifique

Notre collègue Denis Vigier coordonne la deuxième édition du cycle de conférences Extraction, traitement et visualisation de données complexes en géographie (XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle), organisées à l’ENS de Lyon et financées par l’Institut Rhônalpin des systèmes Complexes (IXXI). Il est adossé au projet GEODE du LabEx ASLAN.

La dixième et dernière séance 2022-2023 est en lien avec la thématique 2 du cycle : Linguistique des discours, traitement automatique des langues.

Intervenant : Peter Logan (Temple University)

Intitulé de l’intervention : Encyclopedias and Classification Issues when Researching the History of Knowledge

Encyclopedias of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reproduce the knowledge of their time and place, as we know, but they do more than that. Comprehensive encyclopedias, like the Encyclopédie and Encyclopedia Britannica, in fact reproduce a specific kind of knowledge, that is, knowledge as defined by social elites rather than folk or tribal forms of knowledge. Along with it, they reproduce the structure in which the many branches of this knowledge were arranged. When identified and examined, the kind and structure of such encyclopedias can reveal new insights into the history of knowledge if we look at what counts (or does not count) as knowledge and examine how the constitution of this knowledge changes in time and space.

These basic questions are at the heart of the Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, which is dedicated to analyzing historical editions of Britannica. In this talk, I explain how we created digital editions of four Britannica editions from 1790-1911. But I focus primarily on the theoretical problem that we encountered when developing a system of classification for the 113,000 entries in these editions. Rather than relying solely on NLP, we elected to use controlled vocabularies. Such vocabularies are, themselves, products of their time and place. Like encyclopedias, they also represent knowledge as a structure, and they are no more or less objective in their treatment of categories than other historical documents. So how does one successfully index historical encyclopedias without erasing the historical structures of knowledge that they represent?

La séance se déroulera en mode hybride le jeudi 22 juin 2023, de 15h à 17h, sur site en salle D4.179 de l’ENS de Lyon, site Descartes, et en visioconférence.

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