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Some things read this week, 4 – 10 Feb 2007

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Sunday, 4 Feb

Farrugia, James. (2003) “Model-theoretic semantics for the web.” In WWW 2003, Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web, ACM: 29-38. Read for Ontologies and author visit.

Frege, Gottlob. (1956) “The Thought: A logical inquiry.” Mind, New Series LXV (259) July, 1956: 289-311 [via JSTOR] Read for Ontologies.

Section 4, “Activities with TS,” in Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read for Independent Study.

Monday, 5 Feb

Classification Research Group (1957) Appendix 2: “The Need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval.” Proceedings of the International Study Conference on Classification for Information Retrieval London: ASLIB, 137-147. Read for Representation and Organization.

Tuesday, 6 Feb

El-Hoshy, Lynn M. “Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 135-152.

More Foucault.

Thursday, 8 Feb

“Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model.” Version 4.2, June 2005: i-xix. For Ontologies. [pdf]

Molholt, Pat. “The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling relationships through rules and structure.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 153-170.

Friday-Saturday, 9-10 Feb

Doerr, M. “The CIDOC CRM – an ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata.” For Ontologies. [pdf]

Saturday, 10 Feb

Pew Internet Project. “Riding the waves of “Web 2.0″: More than a buzzword, but still not easily defined.” Oct 5, 2006. Read for Representation and Organization. [pdf]

O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0.” Sep 30, 2005. Read for Representation and Organization.

Vickery, B. C. “Ontologies.” Journal of Information Science 23 (4) 1997: 277-286. Read for Representation and Organization.

Berners-Lee, Tim, et. al. (2001). “Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities.” Scientific American May 2001. Re-read for Organization and Representation. While I do not find it quite as laughable as I once did, it still is pretty funny.

Decker, S., et al. “The Semantic Web: On the respective roles of XML and RDF.” IEEE Internet Computing. Read for Organization and Representation. [pdf]

Nelson, Stuart J., W. Douglas Johnston and Betsy L. Humphreys. “Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 171-184.

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex. Translated and edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Decided to begin reading this because Foucault is becoming even harder to get through. I only have about 40 pages left, but every time I pick it up I just put it right back down. Read the Editor’s Introduction to the Series, the Foreword, and Notes on the Text.

I also read a lot of things that were cluttering up my Bloglines account today. Way too many more to go….

Things read this weekend

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As best as I can remember, these are the things I’ve read (or re-read) this weekend (not including blog posts, email, Facebook and Flickr conversations, …):

The News-Gazette (Sunday, 28 Jan) newspaper

Parade Magazine (Sunday, 28 Jan)

Coyle, Karen and Diane Hillmann. “Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century.” D-Lib Magazine 12 (1/2) Jan/Feb 2007. Re-read for like the 4th time in the last 8 day.

Tudhope, Douglas, Traugott Koch and Rachel Heery. Terminology Services and Technology: JISC State of the Art Review [pdf version] Read through section 3.2.4, so far. Part was a re-read, but now I’m digging into the full report. This report will provide the main foundation for my independent study this semester.

Chapter 3, “Bibliographic Entities” of Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Re-read.

Milstead, Jessica L. “Standards for Relationships between Subject Indexing Terms” in Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge.

Hudon, Michèle. “Relationships in Multilingual Thesauri” in Bean & Green.

Maniez, Jacques. “Relationships in Thesauri: Some Critical Remarks.” International Classification 15 (3) 1988: 133-138.

Raybeck, Douglas and Douglas Herrmann. “A Cross-cultural Examination of Semantic Relations.” Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology 21 (4) Dec 1990: 452-473. Cited by Hudon.

Janée, Greg, Satoshi Ikeda and Linda L. Hill. The ADL Thesaurus Protocol. Re-read.

Zins, Chaim. “Redefining information science: from “information science” to “knowledge science.” Journal of Documentation 62 (4) 2006: 447-461. DOI 10.1108/00220410610673846

Radford, Gary P. and Marie L. Radford. “Structuralism, post-structuralism, and the library: de Saussure and Foucault.” Journal of Documentation 61 (1) 2005: 60-78. DOI 10.1108/00220410510578014

Now, after the Radford & Radford I best get back to slogging through Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Update: Just read chapters 4 and 5 of Part III of Foucault. On to Part IV, another day.

Validation. My life has been validated!

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Validation Results for [user-supplied text]

Document validates OK.—————————–OK, OK, only my DTD and document instance validate, but that is good enough at the moment. And, in fact, my DTD and document have been validated for a couple days now.

Just a bit ago, I finished answering the 5 questions we also had to answer, verified I met the exercise constraints, revalidated, and then emailed my files.

Yippee!

Now I only have to finish the first marked exercise before the week is out. But at the moment I am trying to help some of my classmates with their last minute validation issues via the electronic bulletin boards.

Update: Fucking WordPress! People say use the HTML source editor, but it is completely screwed up too! I have repeatedly tried to do a little basic formatting to this post in the HTML source editor and it is repeatedly doing whatever the fuck it wants to. My code is perfectly legitimate (and validatable) markup. WordPress’ is not even close! I despise a product that doesn’t allow me to write and use valid markup!

WordPress is really starting to get on my nerves lately!  This formatting issue likes to crop up now and again, amongst other problems that make my blood boil.

Where I am with this semester?

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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. Yay! Now I need to add an element with mixed content and maybe another attribute somewhere and then validate that. I also need to add comments for everything and then revalidate to ensure I didn’t dork anything up. I have until Monday for this.

[Right before I went to the GSLIS Holiday Party early this evening I add a mixed content section, added some mixed content to the document and validated it. I went to the party momentarily ecstatic. :) Now I just have to add a few minor touches and revalidate.]

I ran into Allen yesterday and asked him about finishing the 1st assignment or what. He said just go ahead and finish it. Seems kind of silly [for various reasons], but fair, too.

590TR – Information Transfer and Collaboration in Science — I have finally found a paper topic; just a little late in the semester, which means once I get my advisor’s signature my semester will go on for just a bit longer. :(

My topic is, for me, a bit like climbing over the wall with the sign that says, “Here be monsters! Keep out!” Some of you might be able to guess where this is heading with all my “word issues” lately.

I am going to look at the mapping of multiple, conceptual vocabularies for use by interdisciplinary scientists. Mapping work (for various purposes) has been going on for decades now; much of it “lost,” some of it found again, much of it being redone.

The reason this “be monster” territory for me is because I have serious doubts about how well these techniques can work. I have no doubt that they can in some limited domains, but how generalizable are the techniques, intellectual or machine? Another issue is the limited number of relation types in most thesauri. Much research, in many disciplines, has gone into lexical-semantic relations. Some researchers have discovered as few as 5, 7 or 9 types of relations, while some have found as many as 400+!

I don’t know what the “real” number of relation types is, or if there even is one “true” number that holds across languages. My guess is certainly not, especially to the latter. But I am well aware that a thesaurus with only BT, NT and RT is sorely lacking in its relationships and is a poor model of the rich lexical-semantic relationship between words and concepts. But do I want to be the one coding those relationships? Hard to say, but I’m guessing ….

I also owe Carole some comments on the assigned readings for the week I led discussion since I said I would provide them.

590CS – Seminar in Classification Systems for the Organization of Knowledge — Been finished. Ha ha ha. Now that‘s funny! One is never finished with Pauline. ;) I’m still doing thesaurus work since early summer and I’m now hip deep in CS stuff, and it seems like I will be for many a year. :) So, yes, class is over and I got an A, but the work continues …. I am so blessed to be able to learn from, and be guided by, Pauline.

Dang! I need to get my coffee date scheduled.

Oh, on a non-school note, it’s official … I am a member of the ASIST Standards Committee.

Doing good work (for myself)

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I know it doesn’t look like much, and it may well still look like a mess to some, or too many boxes of ‘stuff’ to others. Nonetheless, I am proud of myself.

This is the result of my hard work yesterday straightening up the so-called “spare bedroom.” It is really neither, but at the moment it could easily be turned into a bedroom for a short visit. I hope it can stay that way.

A lot of that stuff that still seems to be in the way could easily be stacked better to make more room. But some of it is stuff I am hoping to get rid of soon (books, odd stuff) and a bit needs to be unpacked, entered in LibraryThing, etc.

All of the stuff that is more ‘permanently’ stored is in an intelligent and accessible place; unlike when I had the suitcases tightly wedged in the closet by empty cardboard boxes before ASIS&T. I also managed to get rid of a fair amount of trash and recyclables.

I am completely out of bookshelf space again, though. And there are a couple boxes here that are bookshelf material. And then there is the storage in Normal….

I have started bringing that here a small car load at a time. Whenever I get to Normal and the storage place is open, I stop and get 5 boxes or so of stuff. When I go on the 12th for the 2nd half of my root canal I hope to find the boxes of photo albums; I already know which box numbers they are. What else, who knows?

I really do need to get rid of stuff and I’m trying. Unfortunately, because I got it half right with the stuff I put in “long-term” storage in Normal, most of the stuff I could more easily weed out is in Normal. And I cannot afford to move it all at once until I absolutely have to. So I am hoping I can get a fair amount of it moved this way first. At least this storage place is affordable, but it is still money and it is an hour away.

Moving it slowly gives me time to weed stuff out, consolidate with other stuff I’m keeping, organize. I could certainly fit everything in Normal storage into the spare bedroom, but no one would really be able to move around in there. If you wanted to move stuff around in there, or look at things, you’d have to move stuff out into the kitchen just so you could have room to operate. Plus, it most certainly could never be considered a bedroom for any length of stay; there would be no place to lie down. I don’t want that; so, it is the slow way for me.

Information Modeling

Now it is on to what I should be working on today, LIS590IML, Information Modeling, Marked Exercise 4 on Document Modeling. There are five relatively simple, short paragraph answer questions on what is descriptive markup and such, and we are also to “prepare an XML DTD and an XML Document Instance meeting these requirements”:

  • 4-12 element types, 2-3 attributes and one general entity.
  • …
  • All markup is descriptive.
  • Validates.

Looks like fun, possibly. Almost a shame I used XML Schema for my projects in Metadata, but we are doing such a small DTD and document that we can use techniques that clearly do not scale. I have a bit more to read or re-read before I begin declaring things, though.

Right now I best go wash the dishes in the sink before the water gets too cold.