Using digitised works in the Project Gutenberg library, they processed 7,733 works from 537 authors written after the year 1550, were looking for the frequency at which 307 "content-free" words – such as "of", "at" and "by" – appeared.
These online systems provide a platform for making comparative judgements of digitised works such as scripts, recorded performances and portfolios.
In all three phases of the study the researchers demonstrated that the digitised student work could be efficiently and effectively assessed using online marking systems.
The recent increase in the use of comparative judgment may be largely due to the availability and use of online software systems, using digitised student works, by small groups of researchers in the UK and in Western Australia.
In a digitised world, will this continue to be a viable strategy for economic equality?
The roundtable agreed that in an increasingly competitive and digitised world charities cannot afford to stand still.
In this new, digitised world, human skills such as empathy, creativity, or even complicated manual manipulation have special value.
The digitised world now blasts waves of raw information around us in a deafening lion's roar.
Now trained, the system will spend three months continuously analysing new photographs from Reuters, comparing each to thousands of digitised paintings, sculptures and other works.
The rise of tablets, Kindles and online editing has not signalled the death of the printed book, but instead only alerted scholars to the importance of its history as a physical object, and provided us with digitised tools that enable us to work at an unprecedented speed and comparative detail.
