Archive for May, 2005
CLOWNPOETS
One humorous little post while I’m thinking about it. XOBIS has ten principal elements: Concept, Language, Object, Work, Being, Place, Object, Event, Time, String. The first letters of these element names don’t add up to anything.
An earlier version of the schema, though, used Name instead of Being. This, of course, spells CLOWNPOETS. We wanted so [...]
Antelope, Document
Many thanks to Lorcan Dempsey's weblog for pointing me to Michael Buckland's very interesting paper, "What is a document?" This preprint of an article published in JASIS asks whether sculpture, museum objects, and live animals could be considered "documents." This is a Xobian question if I've ever heard one.
The paper starts off by [...]
The Practice of Cataloging
I started out in library school wanting to be a cataloger. I started out as an undergraduate wanted to be an English major (I’m not sure what I intended to do with the degree, but the subject interested me). The path between being an English major and becoming a cataloger was charted by the book [...]