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By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
First, a small warning: I am having an extremely crowded and busy week, so blogging here (even the catchup I need to do to the many excellent comments on the Battle of the Opens post) will suffer. Something for folks...
Posted March 18, 2010 • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
I'm committed to a lot of different kinds of "open." This means that I can and do engage in tremendous acts of hair-splitting and pilpul with regard to them. "Gratis" versus "libre" open access? Free-speech versus free-beer software code? I'm...
Posted March 15, 2010 • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
Since the end of the year is a fairly quiet time for my particular professional niche, I've taken the opportunity to do some basic name authority control on author name-strings in the repository. Some basic what on what, now? Welcome...
Posted December 18, 2009 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
It's been a while since I did anything on my series about library ways of knowing. If you'd like to refresh your memory: The classical librarian The humble index Classification Today I'll finish my discussion of classification, and distinguish it...
Posted October 26, 2009 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
Now that we've looked at how back-of-book indexes endeavor to organize and present the information found in a book, we can consider organizing books themselves. It's quite astonishing, how many people go to libraries and bookstores who never seem to...
Posted September 9, 2009 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
I'd like to start our tour of book and library information-management techniques with a glance at the humble back-of-book index. I started the USDA's excellent indexing course back in the day, and while it became clear fairly quickly that I...
Posted August 25, 2009 • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Praxis
Five years ago (really? goodness, it hardly seems possible) I gave a preconference session at the Extreme Markup Languages conference (which is now Balisage) entitled "Classification, Cataloguing, and Categorization Systems: Past, Present, and Future." I have learned to write better...
Posted August 19, 2009 • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
Because I've seen it quoted, misquoted, and usually not attributed at all… “Converting PDF to XML is a bit like converting hamburgers into cows." That is the quote I know of. It comes from revered XML developer Michael Kay on...
Posted July 23, 2009 • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
Jargon
That would be the question, wouldn't it. Unfortunately, such fundamental definitions are never simple to create, and even less simple to agree upon. A little history may help explain how we got into this parlous uncertain state, but it may...
Posted July 17, 2009 • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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