Rediscovering Don Swanson:The Past, Present and Future of Literature-based Discovery

Abstract

The late Don R. Swanson was well appreciated during his lifetime as Dean of the Graduate Library School at University of Chicago, as winner of the American Society for Information Science Award of Merit for 2000, and as author of many seminal articles. In this informal essay, I will give my personal perspective on Don’s contributions to science, and outline some current and future directions in literature-based discovery that are rooted in concepts that he developed.

Keywords

• literature-based discovery
• biography
• text mining
• knowledge discovery in databases
• implicit information
• information science