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Amazon Kindle Touch Review
Amazon xray feature
The new X-ray feature takes things a step further. Clicking on it will bring up a list of proper names, including characters, historical figures and places. It brings up a timeline illustration letting you know how often the name appears in the book viewable by page, chapter…
Doi Handbook - Numbering
DOI names are case insensitive
DOI names are case insensitive, using ASCII case folding for comparison of text. (Case insensitivity for DOI names applies only to ASCII characters. DOI names which differ in the case of non-ASCII Unicode characters may be different identifiers.) 10.123/ABC is identical to…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Problem: “philosophy of x” vs. “x”
In numerous places in the expert-supplied taxonomies, we also noticed that cat- egory names sometimes included a “philosophy of” prefix and sometimes did not; examples include “artificial intelligence” vs. “philosophy of artificial intelligence,” “connectionism” vs. “philosophy…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Extracting historical events as named entities
One of the biggest challenges is information extraction on historical events from different textual data. We will start by identifying the ‘bigger’ events that have been deemed important enough to receive a proper name (e.g., French Revolution, Second World War). As the…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The banner of enlightement
we may begin to bear still farther onward the banner of enlightenment—a banner bearing the three names: Petrarch, Erasmus, Voltaire. We have taken a forward step out of reaction.
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Gabbeh, a film about a Persian carpet
Gabbeh, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is a beautiful film centred on a gabbeh, a type of Persian carpet made by Qashqa’i nomads, and the love story of a nomad girl with the same name. (1183-1184)
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Bacon abandons the model of the semantic triangle: words signify the things themselves
2) In his account of signification of words regarding their ‘impositio’ Bacon accentuates the arbitrariness of meaning.[28] But even though the first ‘impositor’ (name-giver) is free to impose a word or sign on anything whatsoever, he does perform the act of imposition…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Rigid designators
Kripke’s argument appeals to the concept of a “rigid designator.” A rigid designator is defined as an expression that always refers to the same object in any possible state of affairs. Thus, the expression, “Benjamin Franklin,” is a rigid designator because in the usage that I…
Rdf Primer
Xml qualified name (or qname)
For convenience, the Primer uses a shorthand way of writing triples (the same shorthand is also used in other RDF specifications). This shorthand substitutes an XML qualified name (or QName) without angle brackets as an abbreviation for a full URI reference (QNames are…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
Plato's third, androgynous sex
"At the beginning there were three sexes, not just the two sexes, the male and the female, as at present; there was a third kind that shared the characteristics of the other two, and whose name survives, even though the thing itself has disappeared. For at that time one was…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A restaurant missing from the guidebooks
Despite that distinction, or because of it, the Saurabh was small and relatively unknown. Its name didn’t appear in any of the guidebooks for tourists or the epicure columns in the daily newspapers.
Karla's journal of fragments
Knowing that I shouldn’t, I turned through the pages and read her private thoughts. It wasn’t a diary. There were no dates on any of the pages, and there were none of the day-to-day accounts of things done and people met. Instead, there were fragments. Some of them were culled…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
A pseudonym is not a second self
The banal reality is that the maintenance of different identities does not go deep to the core of Magnanti’s soul, but was simply a necessary means of keeping up some barriers for reasons of confidentiality and privacy. Most obviously, there is nothing philosophically profound…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Base names and variant names
The standard therefore provides the facility to assign multiple base names to a single topic, and to provide variants of each base name for use in specific processing contexts. In the original ISO standard variants were limited to display name and sort name. XTM offers a more…
Topics without names
Normally topics have explicit names, since that makes them easier to talk about.[4] However, topics don't always have names: A simple cross reference, such as “see page 97”, is considered to be a link to a topic that has no (explicit) name.
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Period names mean different things to different archaeologists
Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements and cultures. The use of a certain terminology implies a number of ideas that may differ from researcher to researcher…
Multilingual thesauri of period names
This paper presents the development of a methodology for creating multilingual thesauri of period names based on the specifications of CIDOC, archaeological theory and results from Computer Science and Know ledge Representation.
World War 1 As Linked Open Data
Problems with geo location of historical events
Regarding the locations of wartime events, a key point is that places are temporal instances, that is, they can change over time. Current geographical datasets such as GeoNames are thus not directly applicable to a historical case like WW1, as the documents and events often…
Problems historians encounter with digital collections
To better understand the problems humanities researchers encounter in utilizing these collections, re- searchers conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with CU faculty and students [11]. The major user needs identified were better support for: 1) locating documents and data…