Sunday - Saturday, 4 - 10 May 2008
Wilson, Patrick. 1968. Two Kinds of Power : an Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ch. III : Relevance (Sun)
Ch. IV : Bibliographical Instruments and Their Specifications (Mon)
Ch. V : Subjects and the Sense of Position (Wed)
Ch. VI : Indexing, Coupling, Hunting (Thu)
Ch. VII : Consultants […]
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Sunday, 18 Nov
Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007].
Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this.
When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. It was good […]
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Hjørland, Birger. “Semantics and Knowledge Organization.” ARIST 41 (2007): 367-405.
Originally read 18 June 2007 because it was 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
Re-read 28-29 Sep 2007 for two reasons: (1) Seems vastly relevant to my CAS project and […]
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… the wrong thing at the right time, or, perhaps, can it just be there are too many right things to do at overlapping right times?
I know I haven’t fully explicated my bibliography topic yet but a potential change has arisen already. This change is both negative and beneficial; as most changes are. [And as […]
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Monday, 13 Aug
Wilson, Patrick. “Situational relevance.” Information Storage and Retrieval 9 (1973): 457-471.
Cited by Raber in The Problems of Information, ch. 9, en13, p. 186 for the whole article in support of:
While many people, for example, may share the same problem or at least the same kind of problem, it does not mean that the […]
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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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