Ethnonyms One subset of Geographic descriptors are Ethnonyms, that is, the names of peoples, often self-selected, often official, sometimes historical and/or anachronistic, occasionally fictitious (Wakandans), but (hopefully) never perjorative. The number of ethnonyms that appear in the databases is more than 10,000, and even this is just a small part of the constantly multiplying numbers […]
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Notes: Descriptors Are Not Always What They Seem
Notes: Descriptors Are Not Always What They Seem Descriptors seem to be very precise, but that is not always true in the manner one might expect. The descriptor Centralization is used in records that describe both Centralization and Decentralization. In part this is done to reduced them number of descriptors (if all words are descriptors, […]
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Collection Development: Twitter, Tweets and Bibliography Twitter presents a bibliographic challenge for Librarians since the volume of tweets (and other social media) is immense and any archive represents only a sliver of the total content. of course, collection development is rarely about collecting everything on a subject, but rather the best or most useful resources. […]
Continue readingNotes: Missing Information: Photographs and Captions
Notes: Missing Information: Photographs and Captions The purpose of data curation is to increase the effective access of information that is often omitted. One very basic example is that of photographs. Consider a routine political memoir with a section of photographs: It is very common for there to be photographs of people with the memoirist […]
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