We should consider that in the last number of years, Continental and Analytic Philosophy has undergone a major revision on a number of unfashionable issues. If we were once spellbound by discourses, social practices, texts, language and the finitude of human epistemology, then today’s scholars choose to orient their thoughts towards the independence of reality itself. Robert Jackson ART page 12...

Digital video is among the most information-intensive modes of communication. The retrieval of video from digital libraries, along with sound and text, is a major challenge for the computing community in general and for the artificial intelligence community specifically. The advent of digital video has set some old questions in a new light. Questions relating to aesthetics and to the role of su...

Multimedia means multilegia. The basic copyright problem arises out of the fact that multimedia producers need to integrate a hugh quantity of copyrightable works (texts, pictures, music) in their products. This paper describes how the traditional European copyright law can cope with the requirements of the digital age. Instead of compulsory licensing, the collecting societies can manage digita...

The growth of computer networks has boosted the growth of the information technology sector to a greater extent. There is a trend to move from conventional libraries to digital libraries. In the digital libraries images and texts are made available through the internet for scholarly research. At the same time care is taken to prevent the unauthorized use of the images commercially. In some case...

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document Bushman stories and culture and are available as digital scans [1]. Converting these images to text, through a process known as transcription, would allow for the text which appears in the notebooks to be searched, indexed and compared. However, automatic transcription of Bushman texts is difficult due to the diacritics that span m...

The Internet provides easy access to large collections of semi-structured digital documents. WWW browsers, search engines and the "cut & paste" technique are tempting to substitute one's creativity by simple compilation from appropriate digital resources. This paper discusses the problems of detecting plagiarism in large collections of semi-structured electronic texts. Overlaps in and similarit...

Despite increasing interest in Syriac studies and growing digital availability of Syriac texts, there is currently no up-to-date infrastructure for discovering, identifying, classifying, and referencing works of Syriac literature. The standard reference work (Baumstark’s Geschichte) is over ninety years old, and the perhaps 20,000 Syriac manuscripts extant worldwide can be accessed only through...