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y otlet thought libraries were focused on the wrong problem getting readers to the right book isn t enough people also need access to the information in the books at the 1900 world s fair in paris otlet and la fontaine demonstrated their new system they wanted to provide a universal language for expressing the connections among topics it was not a top down system like dewey s within a few years with a small staff mainly women they had 15 million cards in their catalog you could buy a copy of the catalog you could send a query by telegraphy and get a response telegraphed back to you for a fee otlet saw this in a bigger context he and la fontaine created the union of international associations an association of associations as the governing body for the universal classification system the various associations would be responsible for their discpline s information otlet met a scotsman named patrick geddes who worked against specialization and the fracturing of academic disciplines he created a camera obscura in edinburgh so that people could see all of the city from the royal areas and the slums all at once he wanted to stitch all this information together in a way that would have a social effect i ve been there as a tourist and had no idea he also used visual forms to show the connections between topics geddes created a museum the palais mondial that was organized like hypertext bringing together topics in visually rich engaging displays the displays are forerunners of today s tablet based displays another collaborator hendrik christian andersen wanted to create a world city he went deep into designing it he and otlet looked into getting land in belgium for this world war i put a crimp in the idea of the world joining in peace otlet and andersen were early supporters of the idea of a league of nations after the war otlet became a progressive activist including for women s rights as his real world projects lost momentum in the 1930s he turned inward thinking about the future how could the new technologies of radio television telephone etc come together alex shows a minute from the documentary the man who wanted to classify the world otlet imagines a screen and television instead of books all the books and info are in a separate facility feeding the screen the radiated library and the televised book 1934 so why has no one ever heard of otlet in part because he worked in belgium in the 1930s in the 1940s the nazis destroyed his work they replaced his building destrooying 70 tons of materials with an exhibit of nazi art although there are similarities to the web how otlet s system worked was very different his system was a much more controlled environment with a classification system subject experts etc much more a publishing system than a bottom up system linked data and the semantic web are very otlet ish ideas rdf triples and otlet s auxiliary tables are very similar alex now talks about post otlet hypertext pioneers h g wells world brain essay from 1938 the whole human memory can be and probably in a shoirt time will be made accessibo every individual he foresaw a complete and freely avaiable encyclopedia he and otlet met at a conference emanuel goldberg wanted to encode punchcard style information on microfilm for rapid searching then there s vannevar bush s memex that would let users create public trails between documents and liklider s idea that different types of computers should be able to share infromation and engelbart who in 1968 s mother of all demos had a functioning hypertext system ted nelson thought computer scientists were focused on data computation rather than seeing computers as tools of connection he invnted the term hypertext the xanadu web and transclusion embedding a doc in another doc nelson thought that links always should be two way xanadu intellectual property controls built into it the internet is very flat with no central point of control it s self organizing private corporations are much bigger on the net than otlet engelbart and nelson envisioned our access to information is very mediated we don t see the classification system but at sites like facebook you see transclusion two way linking identity management needs that otlet and others identified the semantic web takes an otlet like approach to classification albeit perhaps by algorithms rather than experts likewise the google knowledge vaults project tries to raise the ranking of results that come from expert sources it s good to look back at ideas that were left by the wayside he concludes having just decisively demonstrated the truth of that conclusion q henry james a james had something of a crush on anderson but when he saw the plan for the world city told him that it was a crazy idea wonderful talk read his book comments off on misc liveblog alex wright the secret history of hypertext a dumb idea for opening up library usage data october 8th 2014 a dumb idea but its dumbness is its virtue the idea is that libraries that want to make data about how relevant items are to their communities could algorithmically assign a number between 1 100 to those items this number would present a very low risk of re identification would be easily compared across libraries and would give local libraries control over how they interpret relevance i explain this idea in a post at the chronicle of higher ed the post a dumb idea for opening up library usage data appeared first on joho the blog 3 comments boogywoogy library browser september 25th 2014 just for fun over the weekend i wrote a way of visual browsing the almost 13m items in the harvard library collection it s called the boogywoogy browser in honor of mondrian also it s silly the idea for something like this came out of a conversation with jeff goldenson several years ago in fact it s probably his idea you enter a search term it returns 5 10 of the first results of a search on the library s catalog and lays them out in a line of squares you click on any of the squares and it gets another 5 10 items that are like the one you clicked on but you get to choose one of five different ways items can be alike at the strictest end they are other items classified under the same first subject at the loosest end the browser takes the first real word of the title and does a simple keyword search on it so clicking on fifty shades of gray will fetch items that have the word fifty in their titles or metadata it s fragile lousy code see for yourself at github but that s actually sort of the point boogywoogy is a demo of the sort of thing even a hobbyist like me can write using the harvard librarycloud api librarycloud is an open library platform that makes library metadata available to developers although i ve left the harvard library innovation lab that spawned this project i m still working on it through november as a small but talented and knowledgeable team of developers at the lab and harvard library technical services are getting ready for a launch of a beta in a few months i ll tell you more about it as the time approaches for example we re hoping to hold a hackathon in november anyway feel free to give boogywoogy a try and when it breaks you have no one to blame but me the post boogywoogy library browser appeared first on joho the blog 1 comment et tu u2 september 18th 2014 a few days ago when apple pushed the latest from u2 into everyone s itunes library you could hear the internet pause as it suddenly realized that apple is its parents age now in the ad promotion succubus occupying the body of what used to be time magazine you can see u2 desperate to do exactly the wrong thing insisting that it wasn t a gift at all you can learn more about this in the hilariously titled cover article of time the veteran rock band faces the future this a future in which tracks we don t like are bundled with tracks we do the return of the cd format and people who share with their fans are ruining it for u2 boohoo or as bono recently said we were paid for the apple downloads adding i don t believe in free music music is a sacrament and as everyone knows sacraments need to be purchased at a fair market value the results of which bono as a deeply spiritual artist secures in sacred off shore accounts in my head i hear bono enraged by the increasingly bad publicity composing a message that he posts without first running it through his phalanx of pr folks dear fans you have recently received a copy of our latest album songs of innocence in your itunes library u2 understands you may be confused or even upset by this so let me clarify once and for all the most important point about this if i may humbly say so eternal masterpiece it was not our intention to cause you stress or to wonder if you have the musical sensitivity to full grasp if i may humbly say the greatness of our work but most important it is essential above all that you understand that it was not our intention to give you a gift no freaking way we understand your mistake you are after all just fans and you don t play in the jetstream world of global music as i said to my dear friend nelson mandela friend is too weak a word i was his mentor shortly before he passed music is a sacrament just like tickets to movies especially ones with major stars working for scale or like the bill at a restaurant where you and any two of the clintons chelsea you are a star give yourself that are plotting goodness to tell you the truth i m disappointed in you no worse i m hurt personally hurt how dare you think this was a gift after all these years is that all u2 is worth to you nothing our music has all the value of a crackerjacks trinket or a lower end rolex in an awards show gift bag do you not understand that apple paid us for every copy they distributed we were paid for it sheeple massive numbers of dollars were transferred into our bank accounts more dollars than you could count you whiny little ooh look at me i m sharing wankers we re u2 dammit we don t need you you need us money is love extra ordinary love have a beautiful day meanwhile as always amanda palmer expresses the open hearted truth about this issue it almost makes me regret making fun of bono almost the post et tu u2 appeared first on joho the blog comments off on et tu u2 eim alphabetical order explained in a mere 27 817 words july 27th 2014 this is one of the most amazing examples i ve seen of the complexity of even simple organizational schemes unicode collation algorithm unicode technical standard 10 spells out in precise detail how to sort strings in what we might colloquially call alphabetical order but it s way way way more complex than that unicode is an international standard for how strings of characters get represented within computing systems for example in the familiar ascii encoding the letter a is represented in computers by the number 65 but ascii is too limited to encode the world s alphabets unicode does the job as the paper says collation is the general term for the process and function of determining the sorting order of strings of characters so that for example users can look them up on a list alphabetical order is a simple form of collation sorting inconsistent alphabets is well a problem but let technical standard 10 explain the problem it is important to ensure that collation meets user expectations as fully as possible for example in the majority of latin languages ø sorts as an accented variant of o meaning that most users would expect ø alongside o however a few languages such as norwegian and danish sort ø as a unique element after z sorting søren after sylt in a long list as would be expected in norwegian or danish will cause problems if the user expects ø as a variant of o a user will look for søren between sorem and soret not see it in the selection and assume the string is missing confused because it was sorted in a completely different location heck some french dictionaries even sort their accents in reverse order see section 1 3 but that s nothing here s a fairly random paragraph from further into this magnificent document section 7 2 in the ducet characters are given tertiary weights according to table 17 the decomposition type is from the unicode character database uax44 the case or kana subtype entry refers either to a case distinction or to a specific list of characters the weights are from min 2 to max 1f16 excluding 7 which is not used for historical reasons or from section 8 2 users often find asymmetric searching to be a useful option when doing an asymmetric search a character or grapheme cluster in the query that is unmarked at the secondary and or tertiary levels will match a character in the target that is either marked or unmarked at the same levels but a character in the query that is marked at the secondary and or tertiary levels will only match a character in the target that is marked in the same way you may think i m being snarky i m not at all this document dives resolutely into the brambles and does not give up it incidentally exposes just how complicated even the simplest of sorting tasks is when looked at in their full context where that context is history language culture and the ambiguity in which they thrive the post eim alphabetical order explained in a mere 27 817 words appeared first on joho the blog 1 comment two percent of harvard s library collection circulates every year a high percentage of the works that are checked out are the same as the books that were checked out last year this fact can cause reflexive tsk tsking among librarians but with some heavy qualifications to come this is at it should be the existence of a long tail is not a sign of failure or waste to see this consider what it would be like if there were no long tail harvard s 73 libraries have 16 million items source there are 21 000 students and 2 400 faculty source if we guess that half of the library items are available for check out which seems conservative that would mean that 160 000 different items are checked out every year if there were no long tail then no book would be checked out more than any other in that case it would take the harvard community an even fifty years before anyone would have read the same book as anyone else and a university community in which across two generations no one has read the same book as anyone else is not a university community i know my assumptions are off for example i m not counting books that are read in the library and not checked out but my point remains we want our libraries to have nice long tails library long tails are where culture is preserved and discovery occurs and having said that it is perfectly reasonable to work to lower the difference between the fat head and the long tail and it is always desirable to help people to find the treasures in the long tail which means this post is arguing against a straw man no one actually wants to get rid of the long tail but i prefer to put it that this post argues against a 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