Discovery: Digital semantic corpora for virtual research in philosophy

Oxford e-Research Centre, Paolo D’Iorio - European Commission (eContentplus programme)

Principal Investigator / Director: Paolo D’Iorio

Oxford participants: Paolo D'Iorio (Main Contact); Manuel Dries

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://www.discovery-project.eu

Start Date: 01/10/2006

End Date: 30/10/2009

Funder: European Commission (eContentplus programme)

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): 

Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen; Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (CNR), Rome; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona; Net7 Internet Open Solutions, Pisa; Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana (RaiNet), Rome.

 

 

Project Description:

Discovery aims to create a federation of semantic Digital Libraries and Open Access publishers in the field of philosophy. It has two main components:
A) Philosource, a federation of seven interlinked web sites dedicated to 1) Nietzsche; 2) Wittgenstein; 3) pre-Socratic philosophers; 4) Socrates; 5) Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers; 6) early modern philosophy including Descartes, Spinoza, Vico, Bruno, Kant; 7) 300 video interviews with contemporary philosophers including H.G. Gadamer, Gilles Deleuze, Gianni Vattimo, and many others. B) Philospace, a network of personal desktop applications that will be used to enrich the content of Philosource with semantic annotations.