Chapter 5: Miquel Centelles

How are classifications and taxonomies connected to the Sapiens methodology?

In this episode of “Connecting knowledge”, professor Miquel Centelles delves into the influence of Sapiens in his work and the way it has helped to understand the taxonomy of companies.

From the humanistic economy to digital humanities, Centelles shares his experience and how the Sapiens methodology has been a crucial basis in his work. Discover how the classification of knowledge influences our day-to-day and how it is related to other areas of great relevance today, such as natural language processing.

This is how Miquel Centelles sees digital humanities, which connect two worlds that need each other:

“Humanities students, because they are going to need it, have to acquire skills in computerization, in programming for example. At different levels… At least they have to understand that to solve something, in a humanities project, you have to know how to correctly explain to a computer scientist, a technologist, the way to do it. They cannot be in the hands of a technologist who, in some way, occupies the territories that belong to a humanities specialist. But also the sciences and techniques have to, in some way, dress up as humanities. They have to use humanities techniques, models, to better reach people”

About Miquel Centelles

Miquel Centelles has a degree in Philology and a diploma in Librarianship and Documentation. He is a professor in the Department of Librarianship, Documentation and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona. He teaches in the areas of organization and representation of knowledge and metadata, in classes of the degree of Information and Documentation and masters degrees such as Digital Humanities. It develops research in the application of semantic technologies for the web of data, in collaboration with institutions such as EADOP. He is also a member of the Adaptabit teaching improvement group, specialized in digital accessibility.