Changing modes of scientific discourse analysis, changing perceptions of science

Only New information technologies from text extraction, to data visualisation and semantic technologies, introduce a knowledge representation that reflects the view of the actors building the tools of the knowledge they are trying to represent. In the case of technologies applied to scientific knowledge, the tools thus represent a view of the core tenets, goals, and results of science, which are embodied in the standards, models and tools built to manipulate scientific data, rhetoric, and knowledge. We are interested in identifying a few trends in recent data modelling developments that, we believe, represent an increasingly ‘human-centric’ view of scientific discourse.