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Some things read this week, 4 – 10 Feb 2007

February 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Sunday, 4 Feb

Farrugia, James. (2003) “Model-theoretic semantics for the web.” In WWW 2003, Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web, ACM: 29-38. Read for Ontologies and author visit.

Frege, Gottlob. (1956) “The Thought: A logical inquiry.” Mind, New Series LXV (259) July, 1956: 289-311 [via JSTOR] Read for Ontologies.

Section 4, “Activities with TS,” in Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read for Independent Study.

Monday, 5 Feb

Classification Research Group (1957) Appendix 2: “The Need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval.” Proceedings of the International Study Conference on Classification for Information Retrieval London: ASLIB, 137-147. Read for Representation and Organization.

Tuesday, 6 Feb

El-Hoshy, Lynn M. “Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 135-152.

More Foucault.

Thursday, 8 Feb

“Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model.” Version 4.2, June 2005: i-xix. For Ontologies. [pdf]

Molholt, Pat. “The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling relationships through rules and structure.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 153-170.

Friday-Saturday, 9-10 Feb

Doerr, M. “The CIDOC CRM – an ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata.” For Ontologies. [pdf]

Saturday, 10 Feb

Pew Internet Project. “Riding the waves of “Web 2.0″: More than a buzzword, but still not easily defined.” Oct 5, 2006. Read for Representation and Organization. [pdf]

O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0.” Sep 30, 2005. Read for Representation and Organization.

Vickery, B. C. “Ontologies.” Journal of Information Science 23 (4) 1997: 277-286. Read for Representation and Organization.

Berners-Lee, Tim, et. al. (2001). “Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.” Scientific American May 2001. Re-read for Organization and Representation. While I do not find it quite as laughable as I once did, it still is pretty funny.

Decker, S., et al. “The Semantic Web: On the respective roles of XML and RDF.” IEEE Internet Computing. Read for Organization and Representation. [pdf]

Nelson, Stuart J., W. Douglas Johnston and Betsy L. Humphreys. “Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 171-184.

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex. Translated and edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Decided to begin reading this because Foucault is becoming even harder to get through. I only have about 40 pages left, but every time I pick it up I just put it right back down. Read the Editor’s Introduction to the Series, the Foreword, and Notes on the Text.

I also read a lot of things that were cluttering up my Bloglines account today. Way too many more to go….

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