[eim] Alphabetizing by importance
A New Yorker article that profiles John Quijada, the inventor of a language (and a double-dotter!), mentions the first artificial language we know about, Lingua Ignota. The article’s author, Joshua...
View Article[misc] The Wars on Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Cancer, and Dessert
Steve Coll has a good piece in the New Yorker about the importance of Al Qaeda as a brand: …as long as there are bands of violent Islamic radicals anywhere in the world who find it attractive to call...
View ArticleDebra Riley-Huff on library data from a Webby point of view
Debra Riley-Huff [twitter: huff] explains what some of the library metadata standards (including BIBFRAME and Schema.org) look like from the point of view of a Web developer.
View ArticleWhat I learned at LODLAM
On Wednesday and Thursday I went to the second LODLAM (linked open data for libraries, archives, and museums) unconference, in Montreal. I’d attended the first one in San Francisco two years ago, and...
View ArticleParadata
Hanan Cohen points me to a blog post by a MLIS student at Haifa U., named Shir, in which she discourses on the term “paradata.” Shir cites Mark Sample who in 2011 posted a talk he had given at an...
View ArticleDefinition (n) An explicit formulation of what is obvious to most other people
A mailing list I’m on is discussing GenderAvenger.com. Here’s the text from the home page: Be A Gender Avenger Don’t Accept It. Change It. Panel of all men? Conference with no women speakers? Book of...
View Article[berkman][misc] Curated by the crowd
I’m at a Berkman lunchtime talk on crowdsourcing curation. Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Battles [twitter:matthewBattles] , and Pablo Barria Urenda are leading the discussion. They’re from the Harvard...
View ArticleEverything’s a network, even bookmobiles
A few times in the course of Derek Attig’s really interesting talk on the history of bookmobiles yesterday, he pointed out how the route map of the early bookmobiles (and later ones, too) resembles a...
View ArticleThe Bogotá Manhattan recipe + markup
Here’s a recipe for a Manhattan cocktail that I like. The idea of adding Kahlua came from a bartender in Philadelphia. I call it a Bogotá Manhattan because of the coffee. You can’t tell by looking at...
View ArticleSchema.org…now for datasets!
I had a chance to talk with Dan Brickley today, a semanticizer of the Web whom I greatly admire. He’s often referred to as a co-creator of FOAF, but these days he’s at Google working on Schema.org. He...
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