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Some things read this week, 20 – 26 April 2008

April 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information · Language and word issues · Librariana · Morality · My Life · Ontologies · Philosophy · Theory

Some things read this week, 30 March – 5 April 2008

April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Articles · Bibliography · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Language and word issues · Librariana · Ontologies · Relationships · Theory · Vocabularies

Some things read this week, 27 January – 2 February 2008

February 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Books · CAS Project · Education · Film · Information Retrieval · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Ontologies · Philosophy · Science

Some things read this week, 25 November – 1 December 2007

December 1st, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Bibliography · Books · Education · GSLIS · Information · Language and word issues · Librariana · Ontologies · Philosophy · Technology · Web/Tech · WordPress · Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Some things read this week, 28 October – 3 November 2007

November 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Some things read this week, 5 -11 August 2007

August 11th, 2007 · 12 Comments

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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NASKO 2007 – an historical moment, or perhaps only a moment in time

June 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Articles · Classification · Conferences · Conversation · ISKO-NA · Librariana · My Life · NASKO · Ontologies · Travel · Web/Tech

Some things read this week, 10 – 16 June 2007

June 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Some things read this week, 27 May – 2 June 2007

June 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Some things read this week, 13 – 19 May 2007

May 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

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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