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Getty vocab usage

Intro to Getty’s cataloguing system. Really helpful page on the difference between Display (text that will be read by the end-user) and Indexing (text that uses a controlled vocabulary (AAT) for finding and accessing the works) https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/intro_to_cco_cdwa.pdf [pdf] DISPLAY VS INDEXING Patricia Harpring © 2015 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not… Continue reading Getty vocab usage

re3data – schema

Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories Version 2.2 December 2014 doi: http://doi.org/10.2312/re3.006 http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:758898:3/component/escidoc:775891/re3data_schema_v2-2_public_final-2014-12-03.pdf Research data are valuable and ubiquitous. The permanent access to research data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the scientific community. The long-term preservation and the principle of open access to research data offer broad opportunities for the scientific… Continue reading re3data – schema

Noumenon

The noumenon (/ˈnɒuːmɨnɒn/) is a posited object or event that is known (if at all) without the use of the senses.[1] The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to “phenomenon”, which refers to anything that appears to, or is an object of, the senses. In Platonic philosophy, the noumenal realm was… Continue reading Noumenon

THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA

THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. Some of these automata descriptions from Heron (around 150BCE) are amazing. Brilliant resource. Also: http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Heron.html and step back to http://history-computer.com/ for more automata history. Also great.

Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

Being sure is good; being uncertain is not necessarily bad. Research teams are working to render uncertainty visual. via Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group. The visualization platform Caleydo has a functionality called StratomeX that reveals uncertainty factors in data analysis. Shown here, different clustering algorithms used… Continue reading Data visualization: ambiguity as a fellow traveler : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,

  Ontobee: A web server aimed to facilitate ontology visualization, query, and development. Ontobee provides a user-friendly web interface for displaying the details and its hierarchy of a specific ontology term. Meanwhile, Ontobee provides a RDF source code for the particular web page, which supports remote query of the ontology term and theSemantic Web. Ontology Development… Continue reading Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,