Off the Mark

Sunday - Thursday, 20 - 24 Apr 2008

Lodge, David. 1992. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses. New York: Penguin Books.

Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue this but I read it on and off on Sunday and made a big dent at dinner in the Alley on Monday. I’m 66% […]

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Note: Not that it matters to anyone but me but my chronology may be a bit off due to Comcast pretty much taking over my life for most of this week and the end of the last one.
Sunday - Thursday, 30 Mar - 3 Apr 2008
Budd, J. (2008). Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. […]

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Sunday, 27 Jan 2008
Nonmonotonic Logic. Leora Morgenstern. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Suggested by fellow classmate Tom Dousha for additional elucidation for Ontologies Development. Highly understandable resource for non-experts in logic, although having a basic grasp probably helps.
Sunday - Wednesday, 27 - 30 Jan 2008
Harris, Roy, and International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and […]

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NOTE: CommentPress version of LC Working Group Draft Final Report needed
Please see last entry. We really need a CommentPress install of the LC Working Group’s Draft Final Report. Can anyone do this service quickly?
Sunday - Tuesday, 25 - 27 Nov
Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Reading, Mass: […]

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Sunday, 28 Oct
Davis, Hayley, and Talbot J. Taylor, eds. Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge, 1990.

Ch. 4: Talbot J. Taylor. Normativity and Linguistic Form. (Sat-Sun)
Ch.5: Paul Hopper. The Emergence of the Category ‘Proper Name’ in Discourse. (Sun)

The Taylor chapter was particularly excellent.
Zwicky, Arnold M. and Ann D. Zwicky. “Register as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation.” In […]

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Sunday, 5 Aug
Gnoli, Claudio. “Progress in synthetic classification: Towards a unique definition of concepts.” UDC Seminar: The Hague: 4-5 June 2007. Preprint of the paper published in Extensions & corrections to the UDC, 29, 2007. Available at dLIST.
Tuesday, 7 Aug
Miksa, Shawne. “You Need My Metadata: Demonstrating the Value of Library Cataloging (A Response to the […]

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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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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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Note: Sorry for the non-existent annotations. It was a light week as I prepped for and then attended NASIG.
Sunday, 27 May
Harris, Roy. The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth, 1980.
Finished chap. 2.
Monday, 28 May
Harris, Roy. The Language-Makers. London: Duckworth, 1980.
Read chap. 3.
Tennis, Joseph. “SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies.”
Cited by Harper, Corey A. and Barbara B. […]

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Saturday, 12 May [due to early posting last week]
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” [a snippet]
Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson, “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”

Tuesday, 15 May
Ward, Jewel. “Unqualified Dublin Core Usage in OAI-PMH Providers.” OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20 (1), […]

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