News.com picked up on some of the new work thats going on in the acedemic search / information management space in their article Academia’s quest for the ultimate search tool citing Berkeley’s new interdisciplinary department focus on search technology, CMU’s Javelin work focused on Question Answering search technology and MIT’s Simile project. I particularly like [...]
(reconstructed from wayback) Talks over on the Simile list have moved into the realm of bibliographic citations and of the best way of describing people. FRBR has been mentioned as well as IFLA’s FRAR work for authority records in this context. I’m particularly encoraged by the more recent work of Ian Davis and Richard Newman [...]
A few days ago I lugged home a new (to me) Brent model 3 potters wheel as a present to my wife (who is the real potterer in the family). I found a great deal in the local paper and I couldn’t pass it up. I’ve been throwing on Brent ‘B’ for the past 10 [...]