Claudio Gnoli

Monti di confine: sulle dorsali tra val Trebbia, val Borbera, valle Staffora e val Curone #4P
www.altavaltrebbia.net/2026/03/10/m...

Can LLMs build scholarly ontologies? We tested 17 models and the results are striking: top F1-score of 0.967, and even a small 7B model hit 0.92. New paper in Information Processing & Management:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104262

#AI #KnowledgeGraphs

I just discovered the wiki Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science. Let's populate it... asist.a2hosted.com/index.php/Ma...

Thanks N. Visser Solissa, @fpianz.bsky.social et al. for acknowledging that in fiction indexing "A notable advancement comes from the Integrative Levels Classification, which organizes knowledge around phenomena" in your article openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... #ILC

The main threat is loss of selection and quality because of predatory journals, leading to noise and entropy. Traditional big publishers make profits but at least often spread good science.

Haha no problem, it wasn't

Well I've been using it in all email for many years, as to me it expresses simplicity and friendliness

Researchers Debate on Water Discipline(s) - Information Matters A lively discussion developed in library and information science (LIS) from an article by Claudio Gnoli, Richard Smiraglia and Rick Szostak, already summarized in Information Matters.

Just published in JASIST:
Phenomenon-based classifications and the epistemic fallacy: A reply to Thellefsen
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An informative summary of the whole discussion: informationmatters.org/2026/02/rese...

Al sostegno ai migranti e all'immigrazione in sé sono ben favorevole. Ma la proposta fatta in un piccolo paese montuoso solleva un punto significativo: la Terra è sovrappopolata, tutti ne paghiamo gli effetti e i governi dovrebbero considerare disincentivi alle nascite anziché retoriche sviluppiste

Emergence YouTube video by Carlos Gershenson

Emergence
Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems, Lecture 3
youtu.be/Mrpc2LaumYk?...

Una versione aggiornata e rilegata del mio testo Ontologia informazionale è ora ordinabile:
amzn.eu/d/crXYSKX

What about vampire bats? :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire...

New on the Archive:

Gnoli, Claudio (2026) Phenomenon-based classifications and the epistemic fallacy: A reply to Thellefsen. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28037/

Il lavoro di chi rivede gli articoli scientifici si è molto complicato I chatbot di intelligenza artificiale stanno moltiplicando gli studi e infestandoli di “sbobba”

Tra gli addetti ai lavori è un argomento di cui si discute da anni, e più intensamente da qualche mese: i chatbot di intelligenza artificiale stanno moltiplicando gli studi, infestandoli di “sbobba”

ilpost.link/aGoKnXn9eQ

We don't need sport events in authoritarian countries.

Good point! On the other hand, with other classes such as countries, borders are more arbitrary and less dependent on "what we consider a country"... (But hey, generally speaking I am not so much a constructivist)

But a constructivist can reply that e.g. the individual entity Mount Everest is socially constructed, because its boundaries with other mountain sections are a cultural convention...

_agentività_ (effettivamente un po' pesante) non la soddisfa?

The submission for the 19th International ISKO Conference, which will be held in São Paulo (August 17–19, 2026), is open until March 1, 2026. There are three thematic axes: epistemological, applied, and cultural & social.

www.isko2026.com.br/isko-2026/pa...

#KO #ISKO #Conference #Brazil

Sono stati pubblicati i tre volumi della prima parte della "Storia dell'informatica italiana" (a cura di Maristella Agosti e Virginio Cantoni), in cui compare anche un saggio dedicato all'informatica umanistica (a cura di Marina Buzzoni). Sono disponibili all'indirizzo: eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/23926/

...Ma "dai diamanti non nasce niente, dal letame" ecc.

D'accord, merci, je vais voir si j'ai des commentaires ou suggestions

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

And. So worth your time, whatever your discipline or professional position/ situation. 3/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

I was wondering whether what he claims is contradicted by Wikidata, which is essentially phenomenon-based and has been incredibly successful? There is the Wikidata Ontology

Yes general encyclopaedias, or national libraries, have no specific purpose. Of course their purpose is to advance learning, but this a generic, evolutionary sense of "purpose" which is true for any public knowledge, just like breathing or socializing

SPARQL query from the Wiki Project Ontology to find all BFO Classes in Wikidata w.wiki/HKjT

Of course no one claims to have the definitive table... This is different from taking an ontological approach to #KO as opposed to a specific purpose

New on the Archive:

Reydon, Thomas A. C. (2025) The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009619196

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27740/

Bonjour Quentin, quel sujet et quelle date limite? On pourrait essayer, et j'ai moi-meme un projet semblable en anglais... scritur@gmail.com

Very interesting and well written. One wonders whether the problem is in IUPAC definition. After all, even entities that are stable at other temperature ranges, or are unstable, could be worth being named and studied as kinds...