John Unsworth’s article about Digital Primitives deals with seven types of primitives
in relation to Humanities. The word primitive is basically another name for a
self-understood term. The seven types are discovering, annotating, comparing,
referring, sampling, illustrating, and representing. He talks about one
primitive called “sampling” which is closely related to selection. This
primitive deals with searching and selecting items that would be useful for
research on a particular topic. The “sample” could be the result of a search,
or it could be how often what was searched for shows up in the results. Sampling
also shows clustering and distribution very well. This primitive is related to
Humanities in several ways, and an example is given in his article. One way
that sampling is related to Humanities could be through research about a
particular topic. If you are researching a historical topic and you search for
something, you are using the “sampling” primitive. You can find the link to
John Unsworth’s article here.
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The scholarly primitive that you wrote about, “sampling”, and the scholarly primitive that I wrote about, “discovering”, are both similar, but yet both very different. They are similar because they both have to do with researching. Discovering in research talks about what you’re finding out and how to find it out. But discovering is different from sampling because sampling has to do with the research, but is more for the final results of the research, so it’s the final product of the discovery, so they’re kind of related to each other.
In my Scholarly Primitive article, I wrote about comparing, which can be greatly related to your topic, sampling. As you say, sampling has to do with research, and the results of research. After you get the results of your sampling, you can use to comparing to pin point the similarities and differences in your results. Comparing is very important because it is the only way you can get any information from sampling, so it is very important as well.
In my post I commented on dicovering which can relate to your topic of sampling. Discovering is a way of finding and reasearching where sampling could be something you found on a search. Both of these primitives deal with finding something that you never have before, or researching a topic to understand even more. Although they correlate, sampling is more of reasearching and discovering is more of finding something you don’t know about.