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oa Ouroboros: Objectivity of the subjective process of interpretation
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: KWALON, Volume 21, Issue 1, Mar 2016,
Abstract
Summary
I discuss the dilemma of humanities in the digital age to record interpretations of data, which creates more data that needs to be interpreted. Humanities researchers and machines are tangled in a complex interpretation process: machines mimicking human behaviour and applying this to massive amounts of data. Studying and analysing this process sheds new lights on human interpretation but also on humanities as a discipline.
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Keyword(s):
annotation;
big data;
interpretation;
reproducibility by humans and machines;
subjectivity