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 responses so far ↓
1 Alane, OCLC // Jan 15, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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 Miss E // Jan 15, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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 Mark // Jan 15, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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.
4 jenny // Jan 15, 2007 at 5:16 pm
no hurry, congrats!
5 Ben // Jan 15, 2007 at 7:01 pm
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 :))