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I’m realizing how repetitive my day is, and how little I get to concentrate. Well, I already knew that, but keeping track of time like this really points it out. Need to find some way to carve out some solid work time for myself. Thursday 7:30 am-8:00 am - Yay! I finally got to work on time. [...]

@ Work I actually feel like I got a good amount done today, which is slightly unusual. There were only 3 phone calls all day. I really love summer, but I am trying not to get too used to this down time. Come fall, I won’t have any time for projects at all, as meeting setting [...]

Here’s day two of the library day in the life postings! See the wiki for others doing the same thing. Monday Evening I am going to start with a bit from Monday evening relating to school and professional stuff outside of work: Checked blackboard to get an idea what I would be doing for the week, downloaded a [...]

Photo by Simon Pow I have been quiet on my blogs lately. I think I just needed a bit of a break- not to mention that school and my practicum are taking more time than I thought they would. I am back now to participate in the “A Day in the Life of a Library” meme, [...]

Colors of San Pedro by my hovercraft is full of eels The last few weeks have been a bit of a blur. Various house issues, preparing for vacation and ALA Annual, work, school, and life have been keeping me very busy. All my poor blogs are neglected. I’m not going to post an ALA schedule [...]

Finally back for good in my hotel after day 1 of THAT Camp. I am exhausted and energized at the same time. The organizers have brought together an absolutely amazing group of people, and I am humbled by the sheer brilliance present. I’m going to do a quick overview, but many of the topics discussed [...]

Analyzing the metadata in a document is a fairly straightforward process. However, analyzing the document itself is a little messier. Document analysis is nothing new- people have been programming computers to refine full text analysis since the days when full text first started to appear. As hard drive space became cheaper and computers become more powerful, [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned three types of alternative search: Search that uses existing human or computer supplied metadata to find and display information. Search that analyzes a documents’ contents to return a result. Search that relies on user added metadata Today, I’m talking about the first technique: using existing metadata in new ways to facilitate finding and browsing. Most files [...]

The field of information storage and retrieval concentrates heavily on mathematic formulas for ideal retrieval, and while this is really fascinating (and way over my head) I am also interested in new methods that have been developed for information retrieval in the last five or so years. That’s not to say math is not involved [...]

Thanks to everyone who commented on my previous two posts. I’m still working these things out in my head, and am speaking from a very limited (and naive) perspective of only a handful of institutions and projects that I have seen. One of the things I left out is that digital humanities centers are by no [...]