habitually probing generalist

Wednesday afternoon (18 Apr), Ben Shneiderman gave a CAS/MillerComm Lecture entitled, “Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI,” at GSLIS. Ben was the Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. [I will abbreviate Creativity Support Tools as CST.] CST: Goals: “more people, more creative, more of the [...]

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Earlier today I gave my presentation of my paper in Ontologies. My presentation is entitled, “A Tale of Two Properties.” It is about using thesaural standards and practice to disambiguate the scope notes and examples of two CIDOC CRM properties (relationships). It went pretty well. After class, and the usual after-class discussion, I walked myself [...]

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I do not know how many GSLIS/UIUC folks read this, especially in a timely manner, but here we go anyway. Dr. Pauline Atherton Cochrane will speak to our ASIS&T chapter tomorrow evening, Mon. 16 Apr at 6:15 PM. Her talk is entitled, “From B.C. to A.D. (Bibliographies and Catalogs to After Digitization).” I am going [...]

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Sunday, 8 Apr 2007 Vickery, B. C. “Ontologies.” Journal of Information Science 23 (4) 1997: 277-286. Re-read for Representation and Organization. Originally read 10 Feb 07. Week 5 of RO got moved to Week 13. This is a good overview of ontologies and the rise of the concept within knowledge engineering and information sicence. Paglia, [...]

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Sunday, 1 Apr 2007 Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” William Blake, “London” William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” Babik, Wieslaw. “Terminology as a level for the compatibility of indexing languages. Some remarks.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, [...]

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Blogging, or not so much I’m sorry—although mostly to myself—for my non-blogging lately. There are things I’d like to write (e.g., Green on following Humanities sources) and some I even started on (e.g., Hope Olson) amongst others. But I’ve been working hard at keeping on a reasonably even keel emotionally and mentally, while trying to [...]

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Sickness and death Been having odd sick-like things going on for a couple months now. Went to the doc last week. Sinus x-rays showed an infection and I’m a third of the way through 20 days of antibiotics. My electrolytes were also off and I had to have them retested. Go back Monday for a [...]

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…the thoughts are broken… is no more. This is to in no way imply that my thoughts are no longer broken. That, I fear, shall always be the case in this society. It only means that I canceled my TypePad account this morning before it came up for renewal, which instantaneously nuked my old blog [...]

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This evening I finally joined NASIG. There is also a distinct possibility that I will be attending the NASIG 22nd Annual Conference in Louisville, KY in early June. So if anyone out there is going please let me know. I wish I had known I’d be going to this late last year when there was [...]

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Mark is a Ray of Sunshine on a Cloudy Day Originally uploaded by Musebrarian. A couple weeks back–when it was colder–after a raucous night of LIS Roundtable several of us went to the downtown Merry Ann’s diner. As we were leaving someone noticed this sign and Richard took my picture of me standing in front [...]

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