habitually probing generalist

Green, R. (1991). The Profession’s Models of Information: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis. Journal of Documentation, 47(2), 130-148. I read this at the coffee shop one morning a couple of weeks ago and, as usual, was quite impressed. She shows that a model of communication is mandatory for information science but that one of information seeking [...]

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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, [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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