Taxonomy and Cataloging

42,000 enterprise taxonomies and counting

Computer World (Free subscription) | yesterday

Enterprise search improves with cross-relationship terms, argues one taxonomy supplier. read more

Taxonomy FAIL

The Ethical Palaeontologist (Free subscription) | yesterday

There is not a single eight-year-old who doesn't know what's wrong with this caption: A fellow student was actually asked if the Diplodocus at the Natural History Museum was being replaced with a Tyrannosaurus . Hopefully he's now been able to go back to his friend and say that no it isn't. It's just that the people who write for the Metro are retards.

E.M. Forster, Middle Manager

The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Zadie Smith The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety. Still, there is a sense in which Forster was something of a rare bird. He was free of many vices commonly...

Nikki Keddie on Iran

Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday

In “Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies,” Barbara Slavin, a leading Middle East reporter for USA Today, offers a refreshingly nuanced and revelatory taxonomy of power within theocratic Iran which sheds light on its leaders and their ambitions. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries July 24, 2008 Six Little Words July 24, 2008 ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Don’t Work July 23, 2008 Super Mega Housing Bill on Bush’s...

US patent hierarchy visualization

information aesthetics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

a detailed infographic map that displays the United States Patent & Trademark Office patent classification, which organizes 3 million patents into about 160,000 distinct patent classes. exemplarily shown are 2 patents, together with, respectively, their prior art & impact. the taxonomy visualization shows the organization schema as a hierarchy in which sublevels are indented according to their depth...

Upcoming: Linnaeus' Legacy

A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

I will be hosting Linnaeus' Legacy in two weeks on August 5. Submissions can cover all aspects of biodiversity: taxonomy, identification, species names, newly-discovered species, etc. For an idea of what what types of posts are appropriate, see the first edition and the most recent edition of the carnival. Please send submissions to me at empidonax@gmail.com . I'll post another reminder closer to the...

jQuery: Sparklines Plug-in

Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Edward Tufte has long had a following of fans in the field of information visualizations. Among his interesting taxonomy of visualization types is the “Sparkline“, which he describes as “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics”. While Tufte originally suggested that computer displays are too low-resolution to effectively make use of Sparklines (vs. printed page), James Dempster pointed us...

• jQuery: Sparklines Plug-in - fullasagoog

Professional Reading: The Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Legal Research

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Mathias Siems (Edinburgh School of Law and Cambridge Centre for Business Research) recently posted The Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: Finding the Way Out of the Desert in SSRN. Here's the abstract: This article identifies four different types of interdisciplinary...

Towards a Taxonomy of Science Fiction Book Trailers

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008

io9 posted a round-up of sci-fi book trailers , including the one for Sly Mongoose I showed you last month and this trailer for The Digital Plague , the second novel from Jeff Somers . Neither of which, as Annalee Newitz observes, "give you much of a sense of the plot, but you do get a feeling for the world where it's set. I wonder if this means book trailer makers think that scifi books sell based...

Call for Recorders: Joint OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference (Cleveland, Ohio)

A Library Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008

Call for Recorders: Joint OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference (Cleveland, Ohio) The joint OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is coming up in September. I'm still looking for conference reporters for the following sessions: Pre-conference on Maps Cataloging Opening keynote speaker Lynne Howarth Closing keynote speaker Janet Swan Hill Electronic Resources workshop Advanced Scores Cataloging workshop...

An Analysis of Bordeaux Wine Ratings, 1970-2005: Implications for the Existing Classification of the Médoc and Graves

Docuticker (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008

An Analysis of Bordeaux Wine Ratings, 1970-2005: Implications for the Existing Classification of the Médoc and Graves Source: Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Center for Hospitality Research The French châteaux producing Bordeaux wines were classified in 1855, creating a taxonomy that continues in force to the present day. An analysis of the ratings of vintages from [...]

‘Love Triangle’ Far Oversimplifies ‘The Romantics’

Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

The Romantics turns the unwritten rule that a friend's ex is off limits on its head. In the second novel by Galt Niederhoffer ( A Taxonomy of Barnacles ), the titular group — who earned the nickname for their various intra-clique entanglements — reunite in Maine for the very Waspy wedding of Lila and Tom (Laura's former roommate and boyfriend, respectively). The nine Yale grads simply can’t resist...

Powerlifting Russian hawks

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

Universities are supposed to be places where contrarian views are cultivated accepted but I was still shocked when Svetlana's advisor told me I bet your surprised to meet a hawk in Russia. He gave me a signed latest book which he described as proBush. It's not so much proBush as it as a taxonomy and history of neoconservatism in the United States which he likes and Wallacestyle pa

Barbara Tillett RDA webcasts

The FRBR Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

As seen on Cataloging Futures , two Library of Congress webcasts of Barbara Tillett (who works there, she’s chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office) talking about Resource Description and Access : Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview (67 minutes, recorded 14 May 2008): “RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment,...

Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book

ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

Following on from my previous post about AIIM's upcoming 'Findability' report, Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, has created a colorful free ebook called 'The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata' Designed in the style of a 1960's cookbook, Daniela does a great job of discussing a pretty dry subject in very accessible and...

American Furniture Standards

hrishikesh | 06/05/2008

Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “American Furniture Standards” provides the….. This report provides for the first time an up-to-date and comprehensive catalog of all furniture-related standards in the United States. More than 140 standards are listed, together with contact addresses of the standard-setting institutions, testing laboratories, and certification agencies. Special attention...

Mark O'Leary Tomasz Stanko Billy Hart Levitation leo records

gorgoroth | 05/24/2008

As off-the-mainstream jazz sinks deeper into a niche, it's more difficult to track down all of the great improvisers in America-- let alone the rest of the world, where a glance at the hatArt or Leo Records catalogs turns up dozens of new and unfamiliar names. So I was pleased to discover the work of Mark O'Leary, a guitarist based in Cork, Ireland-- and was even more surprised to learn he'd worked

New version e-Catalogue released

gumir | 04/18/2008

April, 18, 2008 - new version of Free Museum Cataloging Software Released. A new version (4.7) of Museolog, the UNESCO-supported multilingual software for cataloguing museum collections has been released; the software is available at no cost through SourceForge, a global leader in free and open source software (FOSS). Museolog was developed by museum specialists in collaboration with FOSS developers