Las relaciones de conocimiento en la Biblioteca Digital del Pensamiento Novohispano

Abstract

This paper shows the results from an experiment in which we structure the information obtained from 8 documents from New Spain in the second half of the XVIIth Century. All the documents discuss the nature of the comets. The data extraction focused on the bibliographical information from the original texts, and the references and quotes in them. We apply a graph structure to the data to obtain the visualizations of the knowledge network in which the main discussion is based: the nature of the comets. We believe our final results shows interesting precisions on how the network is organize and the place of each text in it. At the same time, the results allow us to make new hypothesis on discussion and its sources.

Keywords

• Digital Humanities
• text mining
• graph analysis
• New Spain