Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers

Anyone looking for an excellent potential application of Topic Maps
can look no further, as this just screams out for them:

   Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers
   Patricia Cohen, 3 Dec 2010, The New York Times
   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/books/04victorian.html

  "Victorians were enamored of the new science of statistics, so it
   seems fitting that these pioneering data hounds are now the subject
   of an unusual experiment in statistical analysis. The titles of
   every British book published in English in and around the 19th
   century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured
   for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the
   minds of the Victorians." [...]

To wit:

   [...]
  "Mr. Cohen and Mr. Gibbs’s “Reframing the Victorians” study is one
   of 12 university projects to win a new digital humanities award*
   created by Google that provides money along with access to the
   company’s powerful computers and databases."

While obviously studies such as this can be done without a graph
technology, imagine what could be done by adding WordNet and
Topic Maps into the mix...

Murray

* http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html
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