Coyle's InFormation

Comments on the digital age, which, as we all know, is 42.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

User tasks, Step one

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Brian C. Vickery , one of the greats of classification theory and a key person in the work of the Classification Research Group (active fro...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Wikipedia and the numbers falacy

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One of the main attempts at solutions to the lack of women on Wikipedia is to encourage more women to come to Wikipedia and edit. The idea i...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Classification, RDF, and promiscuous vowels

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"[He] provided (i) a classified schedule of things and concepts, (ii) a series of conjunctions or 'particles' whereby the eleme...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

The case of the disappearing classification

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I'm starting some research into classification in libraries (now that I have more time due to having had to drop social media from my li...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

This is what sexism looks like: Wikipedia

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We've all heard that there are gender problems on Wikipedia. Honestly there are a lot of problems on Wikipedia, but gender disparity is ...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

Catalogs and Context: Part V

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This entire series is available a single file on my web site . Before we can posit any solutions to the problems that I have noted in thes...
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Monday, July 04, 2016

Catalogs and Content: an Interlude

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This entire series is available a single file on my web site . "Editor's note. Providing subject access to information is one of...
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Karen Coyle
BERKELEY, CA, United States
Librarian, techie, social commentator, once called "public intellectual" by someone who couldn't think of a better title.
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