Off the Mark

Monday, 18 June
Hjørland, Birger. “Semantics and Knowledge Organization.” ARIST 41 (2007): 367-405.
Cited by Zhang, J. (2007). Ontology and the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. Vol. 1. Available: http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1897
As much as I need to summarize this for myself I have run out of time, so:
The aim of this chapter is [...]

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Last Wednesday morning I headed out for Toronto, Canada with my advisor, Kathryn La Barre, for the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14-15, 2007.
The conference was Thursday afternoon and all day Friday with approximately 40 people in attendance. Big names, little names, old names, young names, academics (mostly), corporate folks, those in various [...]

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Let me just state for the record: As much as I will miss all my friends who will be at ALA (including the wholesale category I forgot when I was making decisions) and as much as I wish I had been able to accept the offer to be on a panel discussion of a topic [...]

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Possibly another light week due to all-day on campus class (Topic Maps begins) and travel to Toronto for NASKO.
Sunday, 10 Jun
Van de Sompel, Herbert and Oren Beit-Arie. “Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works.” D-Lib Magazine 7 (7/8) July/August 2001.
Pepper, Steve. The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of [...]

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Monday, 4 Jun
Young, Naomi Kietzke. “Formal Serials Education: A Problem We Can’t Solve or a Solution We Can Live With?” Serials Review 31(2), 2005: 82-89. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2005.02.011
Johnson, Kay G. “Serials—The Constant Midlife Crisis.” Serial Review 32, 2006: 35-39. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2005.11.002
Goldberg, Tyler and Neal Nixon. “Serials Control: Past, Present and Future Imperfect.” Serials Review 31(3), 2005: 206-209. [...]

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Thursday evening I was going to head out for some beers at The Blind Pig when I got a MySpace message that Kayla Brown would be at Aroma Cafe at 8 with Mike Ingram. There was to be another act also, coming down from Chicago. I don’t get to see Kayla often enough due to [...]

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Vision Session I: Bob Stein, Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. “The Evolution of Reading and Writing in the Networked Era.”
This was an interesting session in which I only jotted down 2 pages of random and skimpy notes.
In his prologue, he spoke about reading Arthur Koestler’s The Sleepwalkers which claims that [...]

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Thanks to a suggestion from David Bade I have been reading a fair amount of Roy Harris lately.
I have read both The Language Machine and The Language-Makers.
David suggested that I begin with the epilogue to The Language Machine, entitled “Saying Nothing.” It is absolutely brilliant! I then read the book from the beginning and re-read [...]

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Next week I am going to the 1st NASKO Conference in Toronto and I am seriously stoked!
It is going to be small and intimate, casual (Kathryn said go casual, ladies!), and I’m going to get to hang out with two of my good friends. I’ll also get to meet my intellectual crush and meet some [...]

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This past weekend I attended my first North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference (their 22nd) in Louisville, KY.
It was fun, interesting, and casual. I rode down and stayed with Steve Oberg, who I found out (from someone else) once we got there is a Past President of NASIG. Actually, over the course of [...]

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