Jeffrey Pomerantz

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Are you hungry? I haven’t eaten since later this afternoon.

Posted on 6 May 2005

My friend Derek is a middle school librarian in Long Island, and the person who first introduced me to library science (so my students can thank or blame him). Anyway, he recently sent me the DVD of Primer & I watched it a couple of nights ago. I read a review of Primer somewhere that compared it to Memento, but said something like, it makes Memento look straightforward. Yes, except.. Read More

Certification of Digital Archives Project

Posted on 5 May 2005

RLG Expertise Tapped for Certification of Digital Archives Project The Center for Research Libraries, based in Chicago, has invited Robin Dale, RLG’s digital preservation expert, to be the director of a project that will test ways to audit and certify digital archives. Creating auditing procedures for digital repositories will help ensure the future integrity and accessibility of electronic journals and other scholarly materials. The 18-month Certification of Digital Archives Project.. Read More

How to reply to a blog comment?

Posted on 30 April 2005

Stephen Francoeur, in a post a couple of days ago, poses this really excellent question about blog-iquette: I’m not quite sure of the best way to reply to comments left at the end of postings. If I post my reply as a comment, will the original commenter think to go back to see if I’ve written my reply there? Or should I respond by doing an entirely new post, which.. Read More

Whitman archive at Duke

Posted on 30 April 2005

New Online Archive Offers Rich Details of Walt Whitman’s Works, from Duke News Contemporary scholars are painstakingly creating a comprehensive new annotated internet archive to enable poet Walt Whitman’s works to reach 21st-century readers in a way not possible before, according to Matt Cohen, assistant professor of English at Duke University and an editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. This is a seriously cool digital library. I call it a.. Read More

A truly crappy idea

Posted on 29 April 2005

Zoo eyes elephant poo as energy source, from MSNBC SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is looking to become the first in the nation to be powered by its own animal waste… The zoo — world prominent for its Asian elephant breeding program — is studying how feasible it would be to switch to animal waste as an alternative energy source… Sorry, I couldn’t resist the gratuitous subject line… Read More

Moore’s Law, $10,000

Posted on 28 April 2005

1965 magazine edition a hot item, from The Herald-Sun Intel has offered $10,000 for a mint condition copy of Gordon Moore’s 1965 article in Electronics magazine, “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits,” the article that proposed Moore’s Law. Librarians at both Carolina & Duke are quoted, & are handling this very intelligently. “It’s amazing how quickly this made the rounds. Everyone is in a twist over it,” said Linda Martinez,.. Read More

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Not Extinct

Posted on 28 April 2005

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas, from NPR For those of you out there who aren’t birders, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has been thought to be extinct for decades; the last confirmed sighting was in the 1940s. Until last year, apparently, when sightings were confirmed, and a fly-over of the Ivory-billed was caught on videotape, no less. Ornithologists have been sitting on this for over a year while they confirmed it, and.. Read More

Cravat = Croat

Posted on 28 April 2005

Preparatory to going to Croatia for the LIDA conference & vacation, I’m reading a book on the history of Croatia, titled, cleverly, Croatia: A History. A bit dry, but really quite fascinating. I learned that the word “cravat” comes from Croatian soldiers’ dress in the Thirty Years War. The OED says: cravat, n. 1. a. An article of dress worn round the neck, chiefly by men. It came into vogue.. Read More

Copyright conundrum

Posted on 26 April 2005

A couple of days ago I got the copyright agreements in the mail for a paper I’ve had accepted to for journal publication. This journal has 2 different copyright agreements, & they let the author choose which to sign: I assign copyright to the publisher, & the publisher handles all reprint & other copyright requests, & maybe submits the article to database publishers & aggregators. I retain copyright, & the.. Read More

Wondir, corrected

Posted on 26 April 2005

Matt Koll wrote me an email this morning with a correction about my Wondir post, now removed from my blog. I wrote: …the really big issue I always had with Wondir is this, in their Terms of Service: The data, text, pictures, sound, graphics, logos, marks, symbols, video, software (whether in source code or object code form), tools, Content and any other materials or information incorporated into, used in conjunction.. Read More