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ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting Sessions, part 1

October 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

Sunday, Oct 21
Who Is Tagging Information? - Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo).
Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums.
The panel was down two members so that had some impact [...]

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Some things read this week, 19 - 25 August 2007

August 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Saturday evening, 18 Aug
Nhat Hanh, Thich. Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life. New York N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1991.
Finally got back to some of this.
Sunday, 19 Aug
Three NISO standards are up for reaffirmation so I read these this morning to provide my input:
ANSI/NISO Z39.77-2001 Guidelines for Information About Preservation [...]

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ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting program posted

July 12th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Thanks to Christina, I was alerted to the posting of the program for this years ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in Oct.
It looks really exciting! Some time slots have a lot of competition for my attention, some not so much. I also know my interests will change some between now and mid-Oct. Nonetheless, it looks [...]

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Tags: ASIST · Conferences · Librariana · Standards · Standards Committee (ASIST)

Some things read this week, 25 - 31 Mar 2007

April 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Sunday, 25 Mar 2007
Schmitz-Esser, Winfried. “Language of general communication and concept compatibility.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, Warsaw, 13-15 September 1995. Warsaw: Indeks-Verlag, 1996. 11-22.
This book is very difficult to get a hold of. I could have sworn that I had blogged about receiving this book [...]

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Where I am with this semester?

December 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

590IML - Information Modeling — We got our marked exercises on conceptual modeling (ER, EER) back a couple of days ago and I was super excited to discover that I had aced it. Yay me!
I’m working on my DTD and document and got an early but nearly complete version to validate earlier today. [...]

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Weird weather lately

November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off

Yes, Virginia, we, too, have been having unseasonably warm weather. In late November. Had to open my window last night; after turning off the heat several days ago. It’ll be in the 60s today, getting rainier, and then sleet and 20s for tomorrow. Yay! November is back.
Seriously though, we had [...]

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