Hi All,
If you liked Queens Library's relationship topic map, check out this fun game -- just start making associations!
Funny Farm
It can be difficult, but you can join your game with others' when you click "save game" in the main game mode.
It's great fun -- enjoy!
-Molly
Friday, June 15, 2007
Foucault, Borges, Ranganathan, and classification
I have included the "Chinese classification" that Foucault describes, just because it is so fun.
Then, you will see a couple of colon classification numbers. If you are interested in the rest of the presentation or have questions, please let me know.
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Michel Foucault, in The Order of Things starts with a list, from Borges, that is supposedly from a 'certain Chinese encyclopaedia' in which it is written that 'animals are divided into:
a) belonging to the Emperor,
b) embalmed,
c) tame,
d) suckling pigs,
e) sirens,
f) fabulous,
g) stray dogs,
h) included in the present classification,
i) frenzied,
j) innumerable,
k)drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
l) et cetera,
m) having just broken the water pitcher,
n) that from a long way off look like flies.
Of this list Foucault says, "In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that."
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Example 1:
X:9.73 (Economics of labor in the U.S.)
Labor (9) is the Energy facet and so attached to X by :
. Before 73 indicates Space facet
Example 2:
"Research in the cure of the tuberculosis of lungs by x-ray conducted in India in 1950s"
L,45;421:6;253:f.44'N5
Medicine,Lungs;Tuberculosis:Treatment;Xray:Research.India'1950
Dewey Decimal (DDC) is also capable of doing faceted classification. In this example most, but not all, facets are able to be expressed in Dewey.
"Research in the cure of the tuberculosis of lungs by x-ray conducted in India in 1950s"
•616.995 is the base number-600 Technology-- 610 Medicine --- 616 Diseases
»616.995 Tuberculosis
•ADD -0724 (Experimental research from Table 1)
•616.9950724
•616.99507240954 (in India 09-geog facet, -54 India)
So in Dewey we are able to express that this is about experimental research in India, but not able to express that the treatment is x-ray and that it took place in the 1950s.
Then, you will see a couple of colon classification numbers. If you are interested in the rest of the presentation or have questions, please let me know.
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Michel Foucault, in The Order of Things starts with a list, from Borges, that is supposedly from a 'certain Chinese encyclopaedia' in which it is written that 'animals are divided into:
a) belonging to the Emperor,
b) embalmed,
c) tame,
d) suckling pigs,
e) sirens,
f) fabulous,
g) stray dogs,
h) included in the present classification,
i) frenzied,
j) innumerable,
k)drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
l) et cetera,
m) having just broken the water pitcher,
n) that from a long way off look like flies.
Of this list Foucault says, "In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that."
*************************
Example 1:
X:9.73 (Economics of labor in the U.S.)
Labor (9) is the Energy facet and so attached to X by :
. Before 73 indicates Space facet
Example 2:
"Research in the cure of the tuberculosis of lungs by x-ray conducted in India in 1950s"
L,45;421:6;253:f.44'N5
Medicine,Lungs;Tuberculosis:Treatment;Xray:Research.India'1950
Dewey Decimal (DDC) is also capable of doing faceted classification. In this example most, but not all, facets are able to be expressed in Dewey.
"Research in the cure of the tuberculosis of lungs by x-ray conducted in India in 1950s"
•616.995 is the base number-600 Technology-- 610 Medicine --- 616 Diseases
»616.995 Tuberculosis
•ADD -0724 (Experimental research from Table 1)
•616.9950724
•616.99507240954 (in India 09-geog facet, -54 India)
So in Dewey we are able to express that this is about experimental research in India, but not able to express that the treatment is x-ray and that it took place in the 1950s.
Anon to the Wiki
Please do post your reports to the wiki, but ... if you are uncomfortable with having your name associated with the work, feel free to post anonymously.
Thank you again, I enjoyed these two weeks with you, and have learned a lot from you.
I wish you all a good summer.
Thank you again, I enjoyed these two weeks with you, and have learned a lot from you.
I wish you all a good summer.
Jessica Williams' email: OAI, LISjobs, MD sites
OAI defines a protocol, and that happens to be free. Software which implements the protocol may be free or not. It's like Z39.50 - you can buy clients and servers, but there are also open-source ones.Often, the data provider side is built into as repository application, whether commercial (ContentDM) or Open Source (DSpace). We're using free software from OCLC for both ends - the data provider (OAICat) (so we can be harvested by others) and the harvester (so we can harvest others, for WHO). We chose it largely because it was implemented
There's a list at http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TurnKeyPackages
Here are some listservs for that your students might want to subscribe to for recent job postings.
1. libjobs@infoserv.inist.fr (the website for more information is http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/libjobs)
2. Here is a metadata librarians discussion group that sometimes has job postings.http://lists.monarchos.com/listinfo.cgi/metadatalibrarians-monarchos.com
3. Here is the link to ALA's job site: http://www.ala.org/ala/education/empopps/employmentopportunities.htm
4. Here is the Pacific Northwest job sitehttp://www.pnla.org/jobs/index.htm
In general here are some metadata sites that the UW-Milwaukee LIS professor, Steve Miller, put me in touch with along with his comments:
> I also highly recommend looking regularly at David Bigwood's Catalogablog: http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ (and subscribing to theRSS feed). It includes as much about metadata as cataloging, and I useit myself to stay informed on a lost of current developments. David does a great job of staying abreast of news and posting it to his blog. It's not a place to ask questions, but a great way to keep up with newdevelopments, changes in existing standards, etc. > >
There's also Dublin Core list, but I think it's more for DCdevelopers than day-to-day practioner questions. But I haven't kept upwith it much lately so it could be worth "lurking" and seeing what kindof posts are being made. At any rate, its the place to stay abreast of Dublin Core developments.
DC-GENERAL:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1> > >
There's also "Metadata Blog," the ALCTS Networked Resources andMetadata Interest Group Blog: http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php<http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php>
It's very new and not terribly useful yet, but might grow. > >
Definitely on the list are the Dublin Core web site:http://dublincore.org/ <http://dublincore.org/>
and to some extent alsothe NSDL OAI Metadata Best Practices site:http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl<http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>
There's a list at http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TurnKeyPackages
Here are some listservs for that your students might want to subscribe to for recent job postings.
1. libjobs@infoserv.inist.fr (the website for more information is http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/libjobs)
2. Here is a metadata librarians discussion group that sometimes has job postings.http://lists.monarchos.com/listinfo.cgi/metadatalibrarians-monarchos.com
3. Here is the link to ALA's job site: http://www.ala.org/ala/education/empopps/employmentopportunities.htm
4. Here is the Pacific Northwest job sitehttp://www.pnla.org/jobs/index.htm
In general here are some metadata sites that the UW-Milwaukee LIS professor, Steve Miller, put me in touch with along with his comments:
> I also highly recommend looking regularly at David Bigwood's Catalogablog: http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ (and subscribing to theRSS feed). It includes as much about metadata as cataloging, and I useit myself to stay informed on a lost of current developments. David does a great job of staying abreast of news and posting it to his blog. It's not a place to ask questions, but a great way to keep up with newdevelopments, changes in existing standards, etc. > >
There's also Dublin Core list, but I think it's more for DCdevelopers than day-to-day practioner questions. But I haven't kept upwith it much lately so it could be worth "lurking" and seeing what kindof posts are being made. At any rate, its the place to stay abreast of Dublin Core developments.
DC-GENERAL:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-general&A=1> > >
There's also "Metadata Blog," the ALCTS Networked Resources andMetadata Interest Group Blog: http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php<http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php>
It's very new and not terribly useful yet, but might grow. > >
Definitely on the list are the Dublin Core web site:http://dublincore.org/ <http://dublincore.org/>
and to some extent alsothe NSDL OAI Metadata Best Practices site:http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl<http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Current Topics section on wiki
Hey, guys. I updated the Current Topics section of the wiki with all the social tagging articles we posted here that are freely available on the web. There's a section for Automated Metadata Extraction articles--do we have any links to articles about automated metadata extraction?
Another Semantic-Webbish Demo
So, I had made up this example of a hypothetical "Book finder" that one could make with Semantic Web type tools. But with a few more hours to poke around I could have found BlueOrganizer, a real live working Mozilla add on that does lots of things along those lines.
It's many things, including an online-bookmarking tool and a right-click context menu that provides links to lots of popular Web 2.0 services. But what makes it Semantic Webby is that it offers different options depending on what it finds on the page: books, recipes, music, wine, and a bunch of other categories. It doesn't rely on RDF or other markup to identify these things as far as I can tell, it just seems to make good guesses by looking at page content, possibly matching against a list of known text strings, and using information that users have provided when bookmarking pages.
It also does some simple ontology-related things, mostly sub- and superset choices from what I've seen. For example, when dealing with books it offers options based on the specific book and on the book's author. For web pages, you can look for more info about the page or about the site. For recipes, you can search elsewhere on the recipe title or on individual ingredients. For travel destinations, it offers options based on the city or the country. But I don't see any fancy things like searching multiple sources and sorting the results for you.
(Note for Semantic Web watchers: it seems like popular SW hypotheticals tend involve books, travel, wine, or recipes. So whatever the eventual "killer app" turns out to be, it seems likely that it will combine all these. ;^)
It's many things, including an online-bookmarking tool and a right-click context menu that provides links to lots of popular Web 2.0 services. But what makes it Semantic Webby is that it offers different options depending on what it finds on the page: books, recipes, music, wine, and a bunch of other categories. It doesn't rely on RDF or other markup to identify these things as far as I can tell, it just seems to make good guesses by looking at page content, possibly matching against a list of known text strings, and using information that users have provided when bookmarking pages.
It also does some simple ontology-related things, mostly sub- and superset choices from what I've seen. For example, when dealing with books it offers options based on the specific book and on the book's author. For web pages, you can look for more info about the page or about the site. For recipes, you can search elsewhere on the recipe title or on individual ingredients. For travel destinations, it offers options based on the city or the country. But I don't see any fancy things like searching multiple sources and sorting the results for you.
(Note for Semantic Web watchers: it seems like popular SW hypotheticals tend involve books, travel, wine, or recipes. So whatever the eventual "killer app" turns out to be, it seems likely that it will combine all these. ;^)
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Schedule
The schedule is here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcqs7qbs_27ff58ft
and reflects changes for the remainder of the week.
and reflects changes for the remainder of the week.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
PBCore
This glossary has been extremly useful for me so far. I thought I would pass it on.
http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/Glossary.html
http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/Glossary.html
Friday, June 8, 2007
Readings for Monday
Please have a look at the Shreeves' article on OAI and the Berners-Lee article on the semantic web for Monday.
I am also including links to other resources to supplement your reading, should you be interested in more.
A good weekend to all ...
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Metadata Harvesting Project
http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm
This takes you to the homepage of the OAI. The link to presentations and papers in particular will take you to a wealth of resources about the OAI: http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/presentations.htm.
For class on Monday, please be sure to look at the 2004 Shreeves et al. article:
Experiences of educators using a portal of aggregated metadata. Journal of Digital Information 5(3). Article No. 290, 2004-09-09.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves/
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and is highly recommended.
The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (May 2001) in Scientific American magazine.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
This is the classic article by Berners-Lee and others, provides a very good starting place in learning about the semantic web. Please read for class on Monday.
The W3C Semantic Web Activity page
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Provides links to specifications (RDF and OWL), Publications/Articles/Interviews (including a 15 minute video with Berners-Lee), Upcoming Presentations, and Groups. This is an excellent resource for keeping current with semantic web activities. Please review.
I am also including links to other resources to supplement your reading, should you be interested in more.
A good weekend to all ...
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Metadata Harvesting Project
http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm
This takes you to the homepage of the OAI. The link to presentations and papers in particular will take you to a wealth of resources about the OAI: http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/presentations.htm.
For class on Monday, please be sure to look at the 2004 Shreeves et al. article:
Experiences of educators using a portal of aggregated metadata. Journal of Digital Information 5(3). Article No. 290, 2004-09-09.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves/
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and is highly recommended.
The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (May 2001) in Scientific American magazine.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
This is the classic article by Berners-Lee and others, provides a very good starting place in learning about the semantic web. Please read for class on Monday.
The W3C Semantic Web Activity page
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Provides links to specifications (RDF and OWL), Publications/Articles/Interviews (including a 15 minute video with Berners-Lee), Upcoming Presentations, and Groups. This is an excellent resource for keeping current with semantic web activities. Please review.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
semantic web: a question
Does the semantic web--which I feebly understand as language that is understandable to humans as well as to machines--fit into a discussion about metadata?
I feel like the reason there aren't so many papers about metadata anymore is that people have made the leap to new concepts, or new faddish terminology, but I have no idea.
I feel like the reason there aren't so many papers about metadata anymore is that people have made the leap to new concepts, or new faddish terminology, but I have no idea.
Metadata Articles
Title: Web metadata: a matter of semantics Source: IEEE internet computing [1089-7801] Lassila yr:1998 vol:2 iss:4 pg:30
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/4236/15320/00707688.pdf?isnumber=15320&prod=JNL&arnumber=707688&arSt=30&ared=37&arAuthor=Lassila%2C+O.
A PDF of an article describing how researchers are approaching the construction of web metadata standards, particularly the W3C's RDF guidelines and how it compares to XML.
Title: Metadata Principles and Practicalities Source: D-Lib magazine [1082-9873] Duval yr:2002 vol:8 iss:4 pg:1082
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
This article gives a fabulous overview of how metadata is constructed and how it is used in digital libraries.
ADVANCED DATABASES AND METADATA
ERCIM News No.35 - October 1998
Metadata: An Overview and some Issues
by Keith G Jeffery
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw35/intro.html
This presents a good picture of how metadata was looked at during theclose of the 20th century and what it was looking to accomplish.
Metadata Overview and the Semantic Web
P. Wittenburg, Daan Broeder
http://www.ling.lu.se/projects/echo/contributors/pdf/metadata_overview.pdf
This is a PDF of an article describing the main components of metadataand how it is being applied to the worldwide web.
Metadata: The Foundation of Resource Description
Annual review of OCLC research 1995
Stuart L. Weibel
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000002651:000000058754&reqid=76330
This article describes Dublin Core standards for metadata and gives anexample of a Dublin Core metadata record of a Maya Angelou poem.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/4236/15320/00707688.pdf?isnumber=15320&prod=JNL&arnumber=707688&arSt=30&ared=37&arAuthor=Lassila%2C+O.
A PDF of an article describing how researchers are approaching the construction of web metadata standards, particularly the W3C's RDF guidelines and how it compares to XML.
Title: Metadata Principles and Practicalities Source: D-Lib magazine [1082-9873] Duval yr:2002 vol:8 iss:4 pg:1082
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
This article gives a fabulous overview of how metadata is constructed and how it is used in digital libraries.
ADVANCED DATABASES AND METADATA
ERCIM News No.35 - October 1998
Metadata: An Overview and some Issues
by Keith G Jeffery
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw35/intro.html
This presents a good picture of how metadata was looked at during theclose of the 20th century and what it was looking to accomplish.
Metadata Overview and the Semantic Web
P. Wittenburg, Daan Broeder
http://www.ling.lu.se/projects/echo/contributors/pdf/metadata_overview.pdf
This is a PDF of an article describing the main components of metadataand how it is being applied to the worldwide web.
Metadata: The Foundation of Resource Description
Annual review of OCLC research 1995
Stuart L. Weibel
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000002651:000000058754&reqid=76330
This article describes Dublin Core standards for metadata and gives anexample of a Dublin Core metadata record of a Maya Angelou poem.
Social Tagging
Please post all your links and articles re: social tagging in the comments to this post. If you've already posted something about social tagging, please delete your post and repost the text and links in the comments here. Let's keep all our links in one place. :)
for audiophiles
Several of you are interested in audio files, this may be of interest.
Here is an article in NYTimes (may require free registration) that talks about compression and source coding for audio files and how it impacts audiophiles ;-). There are samples of Norah Jones at differentr bit rates.
Here is an article in NYTimes (may require free registration) that talks about compression and source coding for audio files and how it impacts audiophiles ;-). There are samples of Norah Jones at differentr bit rates.
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