One semester bleeds into the next

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Woohoo!

I just emailed my seminar paper on mapping thesauri for use by interdisciplinary scientists to my professor. Fall 2006 is finally over, at least for me. I have a few friends still struggling with papers due soon. I wish them well.

The “beauty” of it all is that the new semester starts tomorrow. Where, oh where, did break go?

Now I need to get on designing and getting approval for my independent study on thesauri. I am particularly interested in interoperability and embedded services. In that regard, I will be definitely looking into both OCLC‘s and JISC‘s Terminology Services research and projects.

Once I get far enough along in my research, I would love to visit OCLC to get a first hand glimpse at some of the work they are doing. Maybe over Spring Break I can go visit my daughter in Cleveland and stop by Dublin on the way. I did make one OCLC contact while at ASIS&T 2006, so maybe…. I would absolutely love to visit UKOLN at the University of Bath, but I don’t even have a passport, much less that kind of money. :(

I know I promised a copy of my paper to JennyB, jennimi, and my boss at IFSI. I will get off my lazy butt after I eat lunch and watch a movie and email it to you. If I promised anyone else, please just remind me. The last few weeks have been mostly a blur. I bet what you really want is the next paper, though. I am not ashamed of this one, not in any sense, but it is also not what I really became interested in. I guess it provides a decent selective overview of interdisciplinarity and the mapping of thesauri, along with some related methods. I tried to write it in the style of an ARIST chapter, which is a new genre for me, so I’m a little hesitant to say how useful it might be for someone else. It can serve as a decent source for citations, though. And then there are the scores of others I wasn’t able to incorporate…. Ah well. Onward, if not exactly upward.

Me. I’m off to enjoy the last few hours of “break.”

5 thoughts on “One semester bleeds into the next”

  1. Mark, if you want to come visit us at the Mothership in Dublin…just ask! I can’t guarantee that there’d be much to see, or who would be here but we like visitors.

  2. Awesome! Good for you! I’m still plugging away at Boyd’s paper, hoping to finish it by the end of the day so that I can go to yoga tonight and enter my 27th year relaxed instead of stressed out.

  3. Thanks Alane! I will do.

    That’s right, I guess I have met several folks from OCLC in the last 2 years thanks to the wonderful Blogger Bash they put on in Chicago at ALA Annual. [Yes, yes, they have put on others, but I have missed those.]

    Now, now, Miss E, how are you working on your paper if you are reading blogs? Seriously, though, thanks! And I know your paper will be awesome. Not sure what aspect of Cotton it is on; but if it on his classification system I would especially love to read it. ;) And, no, I’m not really scolding you, E–one must be very careful in chiding one’s role models–because I’ve managed to engage in a lot of the same behavior the last couple days myself.

    Also, Happy Birthday Miss E! I was trying to hold off until tomorrow, but I guess I can say it a few times. :)

  5. Hey Mark — I’m interested in seein’ this paper, as well…good luck with the new semester (and, more importantly, what’s left of the break :) )