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 […]
Continue readingMexico City Notebook: Drug Gangs Tap Oil To Top Up Their Illicit Gains
[Sample Record] Title: “Mexico City Notebook: Drug Gangs Tap Oil To Top Up Their Illicit Gains”, in Financial Times, May 16, 2017. p. 8. Abstract: In recent years, Mexican druglords have moved into the siphoning of petroleum products from the pipelines of PEMEX on a massive scale. A recent battle in Puebla involving 2000 troops […]
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Notes: Direct Foreign Investment and Doing Business Two sets of descriptors solve a common business research problem: precisely identifying records for foreign investments and doing business in various countries. The prefix “FI” is part of descriptors for records about direct “Foreign Investment” various countries. Examples are: FIBRAZIL Foreign Investment in Brazil FIETH Foreign Investment in […]
Continue readingLast Stands: Foresters and Ecologists Face Off Over the Future of Europe’s Oldest Forest
[Sample Record] “Last Stands: Foresters and Ecologists Face Off Over the Future of Europe’s Oldest Forest”, in Science, December 8, 2017. p. 1240-1243. Abstract: Bialowiela, Poland, is the gateway to the most primeval forest remaining in Europe. (Most of the oldest forest is across the border in Belarus.) State Forests, the Polish agency that manages […]
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