habitually probing generalist

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% of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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: [...]

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