An Experimental Collaboration Tool for the Humanities: the Procspace System

This article describes a hybrid tool for collaborative information management and retrieval – procspace – that draws on different approaches in the field in order to show in what way those methods can be combined into a single application targeted for use by researchers in the humanities. Integrating data-mining models (such as the vector-space model) into collaborative text filtering can combine the semantic sensitivity of human beings with the computers aptness at processing great amounts of data. Deployment of such a tool into concrete work setting however necessitates close attention to the human and social dimensions that come heavily into play.