MetaFilter posts tagged with indexing Posts tagged with 'indexing' at MetaFilter. Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:35:57 -0800 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:35:57 -0800 en-us 60 Sacred Electronics <a href="">Father Roberto Busa</a>, whose work to <a href=",9171,867529,00.html">analyze and index</a> the writings of <a href="">St. Thomas Aquinas</a> led to the foundation of the discipline now known as the <a href="">digital humanities</a>, has <a href=",%20%20Fr.%20Busa%20has%20died&locale=en">died at the age of 97</a>.,2011:site.106399 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:35:57 -0800 computing concordances digitalhumanities indexing jesuits linguistics thomasaquinas Horace Rumpole Stealing Your Library <a href="">OCLC, owners of WorldCat, are getting greedy.</a> <i>It's now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give control over all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries to put an OCLC policy notice on every book record in their catalog. It wants to own every library. It's not just Open Library that's at risk here -- LibraryThing, Zotero, even some new Wikipedia features being developed are threatened. Basically anything that uses information about books is going to be a victim of this unprecedented power[ ]grab. It's a scary thought.</i> <a href="">Open Library</a> provides a free alternative to WorldCat, provided it doesn't get sued into oblivion.,2008:site.76516 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:32:20 -0800 catalog fightthepower indexing informationwantstobefree library OCLC opensource mecran01 The Getty Art &amp; Architecture Thesaurus <i>"Bastarda"</i>! What is it? Well, silly, it's a style of Gothic script, of course, used chiefly in the 14th and 15th centuries and so-called because it combines characteristics of the Gothic cursive style with the more formal "textura". Why do I know this? Because I've been surfing the mighty-wonderful <a href="">Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus</a>. <small>More...</small>,2003:site.23471 Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:23:45 -0800 architecture art artthesaurus browser cataloguing catlogue database Getty indexing thesaurus taz