My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list
Here’s my top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists: The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of All Time TopTenz Miscellaneous MetaCritic music lists Smosh’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2011 Top Ten 2011 Top Ten...
View Article[2b2k][eim] Needlebase going? Nooo! We need le base!
Google has announced that it is retiring Needlebase, a service it acquired with its ITA purchase. That’s too bad! Needlebase is a very cool tool. (It’s staying up until June 1 so you can download any...
View Article[2b2k][everythingismisc]“Big data for books”: Harvard puts metadata for 12M...
(Here’s a version of the text of a submission I just made to BoingBong through their “Submitterator”) Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about...
View Article[eim] [semtechbiz] Viacom’s semantic approach
I’m at the Semantic Technology & Business conference in NYC. Matthew Degel, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect at Viacom Media Networks is talking about “Modeling Media and the Content...
View Article[eim][2b2k] The DSM — never entirely correct
The American Psychiatric Association has approved its new manual of diagnoses — Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — after five years of controversy [nytimes]. For example, it has...
View Article[misc] I bet your ontology never thought of this one!
Paul Deschner and I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with Jeffrey Wallman, head of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center about perhaps getting his group’s metadata to interoperate with the...
View Article[2b2k][eim] Over my head
I’m not sure how I came into possession of a copy of The Indexer, a publication by the Society of Indexers, but I thoroughly enjoyed it despite not being a professional indexer. Or, more exactly,...
View Article[2b2k] My world leader can beat up your world leader
There’s a knowingly ridiculous thread at Reddit at the moment: Which world leader would win if pitted against other leaders in a fight to the death. The title is a straightline begging for punchlines....
View Article[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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