[p2p-research] Fwd: Leximancer interactive map

Mon Aug 31 16:31:46 CEST 2009

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony Judge <anthony.judge at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Subject: Leximancer interactive map
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

Possibly of interest, based on 544 comments in a Guardian dialogue

Tony

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Julia Cretchley <julia at leximancer.com>
Date: 2009/8/31
Subject: Re: Contact: Other / Previous trial (anthony.judge at gmail.com,
Union of Imaginable Associations)
To: Anthony Judge <anthony.judge at gmail.com>

Hi Tony,

I grabbed the text from Guardian article discussion, and ran an
exploratory analysis in Leximancer. I am pasting a url below to allow
you to review the project results.

https://www.leximancer.com/lp/m/app/lex3-ref.html?lobj=uic.ProjectMapFrame&prjuri=ri/tlm/LM_16yib4x1d/tpf/PF_26yib4x1d/tpf/PF_6hxpmq4x1d/tpj/PRJ_xm94dhqeil3d&lexauth_signon=true&lexauth_type=TOKEN&lexauth_expire=1254232800000&lexauth_role=project.share&lexauth_signature=VFzDNAKk+F4GDAkE7pbsC0ADY5o=

I hope this will be of interest.

Best regards,
Julia.

2009/8/25 Anthony Judge <anthony.judge at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Julia
>
> Thanks for your response. I note you are busy and that would be good
> news these days. My purpose in contacting you was a more medium term
> concern with how I might use Leximancer. So no urgencies. Hence no
> riush on your kindly suggested conversation
>
>  I say I have a need which it may (partially) fill and I am
> professionally concerned with others who have that need and therefore
> site Leximancer in papers.
>
> My CMS is coming along. The flat files exist. They contain embedded
> html codes. As such I believe they can be readily processed. The issue
> for me is how I integrate that with what I have. Obviously my problem
> -- possibly to be resolved with some feedback from yourselves. Your
> portal operation may have a function in this
>
> As a writer of academic papers I would like to frame myself as
> endeavouring to pomote your approach. As I have said I am also
> intrigued with Netmap with which I have worked. I did raise the
> possibility that your co-occurrences could be fed into Netmap for an
> alternative mode of manipulation. The difficulty I have encountered in
> gaining wider appreciation for such tools is the "so what" response to
> any output. This is a real challenge about which I continue to be
> concerned.
>
> I do have an interesting challenge for you -- and for me -- which
> points to a potentially business opportunity for you. You may be aware
> that a number of serious newspapers invite comments on signifiant
> articles. A striking case is a recent article in the Guardian
>
> Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change?commentpage=1
>
> with 544 comments (now closed)
>
> A great dialogue from which it is virtually impossible to get any
> overview. The question is whether an interface with Leximancer would
> provide such an overview -- through your portal? I am personally
> interested in that particular conversation being mapped -- as would be
> others I know. Of interest is how feeding it to Leximancer might work.
> Is it necessary to break it up in some simple way, etc
>
> I would image the Guardian would be interested in such a facility as
> would other papers.
>
> Anyway I will get back to you when your website is fully transferred
> and any feedback on these items -- no rush -- would be appreciated
>
> Best
>
> Anthony Judge
>
> 2009/8/20 Julia Cretchley <julia at leximancer.com>:
> > Hi Anthony,
> >
> > Your message did reach me. Apologies for my slow reply, we have been
rather
> > busy at this end. As you noted, we have been migrating our Portal and
other
> > sites the Leximancer.com domain. Would you like to arrange a call
between us
> > to discuss the ideas below? I am not familiar with Drupal, and I feel I
> > would need to know more about this to be able to comment on interfacing
with
> > Leximancer. Will you let me know if there's a good time, or feel free to
> > send further details via email.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Julia.
> > --
> > Julia Cretchley
> > Senior Consultant
> > Leximancer Pty Ltd
> > (+61) 400 813 824
> > Jindalee, Queensland, Australia, 4074
> > www.leximancer.com
> > From Words to Meaning to Insight
> >
> > 2009/8/19 <anthony.judge at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> email: anthony.judge at gmail.com company: Union of Imaginable
Associations
> >>
> >>  Greetings
> >>
> >> I note you are shifting web page and your https connection listed on
> >> Google has a certificate problem.
> >>
> >> This message relates to an earlier communication to which I have had no
> >> response -- which may be justified by your shift and other prioritues.
The
> >> communication is as follows:
> >>
> >> Hi Julia
> >>
> >> I have devoted a certain amount of time to testing. Incidentally I
> >> have also written an
> >> assessment for my colleague in the Club of Rome (as mentioned in
> >> previous correspondence)
> >>
> >> Basically my conclusion at this time is not to go ahead with a
purchase.
> >>
> >> Whilst the learning curve and project load-up are a delight, my sense
> >> is that for my own purposes
> >> (as I had indicated to you), I would have to do a lot of conceptual
> >> fine tuning. I am happy that that facility
> >> exists.
> >>
> >> However I also have the capacity to write link analysis programs that
> >> explore my website and
> >> construct visual images -- somewhat along the lines of Netmap. If I
> >> have to fine tune conceptually
> >> then I would have more control over such possibilities in tweaking my
> >> own program -- especially
> >> since I have done some conceptual/thematic analyses already.
> >> Leximancer does not seem to be reducing
> >> my workload on this.
> >>
> >> I can also build in hotlinks etc -- as I have done for similar SVG maps
> >>
> >> It may however be the case that the Club of Rome people have other
> >> agendas. I sent them some screen
> >> shots of sample analyses that I did -- seemingly the trial version did
> >> not allow maps to be saved (although it did
> >> not say so and I could not find them if it did).
> >>
> >> Thanks for your assistance. Perhaps another time
> >>
> >> Tony
> >> Reply
> >>
> >> Forward
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Reply
> >>
> >> |
> >> Anthony Judge
> >>  to Julia
> >>
> >> show details 14 Aug (5 days ago)
> >>
> >>
> >> Reply
> >>
> >>        Follow up message
> >> Hi Julia
> >>
> >> This picks up on the short trial of Leximancer that you enabled for me
> >> in January 2008 (see below). I continue to suggest the product to
> >> various parties.
> >>
> >> My current query with respect to my own set of papers is that I am
> >> near the end of splitting them into mini-papers and inserting them as
> >> nodes in a CMS (Drupal 6.1). This raises some possibilities:
> >>
> >> -- the import to the CMS is a flatfile, one node per line, fields
> >> defined by TSV. This might deed nicely into Leximancer. The "body"
> >> field  is html
> >>
> >> -- as I recall, you indicated you had an online variant (or were
> >> developoing one) and I wonder to what extent it might interface with
> >> something like Drupal, with Leximancer effectively functioning in
> >> "reader" mode for online users (possibly without any need to upload
> >> much information to whatever online server facility you would use).
> >> This seems a direction that Google might well go in (if you have not
> >> already been bought by Google!)
> >>
> >> I guess my problem will remain how I develop a thesaurus -- which I
> >> can do quite easily
> >>
> >> Anyway these are questions to keep me in phase with the possibiloities
> >> you may be offering
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >>
> >> Anthony Judge
> >
> >
> >

--
Julia Cretchley
Senior Consultant
Leximancer Pty Ltd
(+61) 400 813 824
Jindalee, Queensland, Australia, 4074
www.leximancer.com
>From Words to Meaning to Insight

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