Yeah, searching–not sure how I feel about that, as we’ve discussed before. Oh well, my future employers will either like me as a whole package or they’ll judge me entirely based on something written here. I really have no control over that.

And based on my past history, I MUST strive to be a whole individual. Thus, as much of me as time and energy allows will appear here.

Thanks for the cites. I poked around the BC2 site a bit yesterday. BC2 has been a growing–but unpursued–interest for quite a while now. I have read quite a few articles suggesting BC2 as a backbone classification or “switching language.”

FATHUM looks somewhat familiar; maybe we glanced at the site during 590CS. Will have to poke around.

Farradane and Perrault ROCK! So I’m happy, of course, to hear that you think so too, Über-classic articles INDEED.

BC2 is the life work of the Classification Research Group – my heros – Vickery, Mills and Broughton have all been associated with the group over time — all of whom are still active, and Broughton (and Slavic’s work), as you have indicated, is of special interest — see: FATHUM (http://ucl.ac.uk/fatks/database.htm) which explored the possibility utilizing the existing facet analysis from BC2, BSO (Dahlberg) and UDC. in a prototype classification tool. See current activities regarding the BCA (Bliss Classification Association founded in 1967) with regard to BC2 here: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/bca/bcahome.htm
There has been discussion about movement to harmonize the UDC and BC2 — but that is another discussion for another time.

Kathryn

Oh gosh, really?! Thanks, I’m blushing over here.

I know I should get over it, but I’ve been gnashing my teeth over this class and its inaccessibility to me all semester. Hearing about that paper from Tom did not help.

I, too, am a fan of “crack your head open.” but this was just not the right kind of head crackin’. Something along the lines of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster would be more like it.

I guess the difference isn’t really in the head crackin’ itself but more whether once it’s over was it useful and/or fun? This experience was just plain utterly confusing.

Oh man, I wish I could have taken Ontologies this semester. I’m a big fan of “crack your head open” education.

Thanks for the feedback, Ben! One of my friends has said that he’s just quit reading them because their too intimidating! Many other people are constantly asking me how I find the time to do this much reading. (Of course, I wonder the same thing about people that read 100+ books/year.) I try to buffer the complaints by reminding people that so far I just read and don’t do much with them, which is supposedly the point.

I also wish I wrote better abstracts/reviews (or wrote them period) for more of the things. It would’ve been nice if I had since I now need to go back and do that for one of my projects. I’ll try to remember that and do “better” in the future, but that’s a definite maybe.

BTW: I really appreciate these mass-reading lists you do, Mark — you plow through a lot of material and clue others into what might be essential theoretical grounding for us.