There is a wonderful test run happening at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, namely their website at http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/07/hm7_41_1.html. IBM is experimenting with color content and shapes in their search…
Librarians are often responsible for determining controlled vocabularies and taxonomies, which are basically fancy words for index terms. So, if you want to reference a beer, you could do so…
Anyhoo, I am travelling to Durban, South Africa, for the IFLA Conference (International Federation of Library Associations) in August and am awfully excited. I finally get to rub elbows with…
At 31, I am more alive, yet closer to death. I am restless on a myriad of levels as opposed to only a few, as in my youth. I am…
The following poem is from Brother Anthony, a monk of the Taize order, who also happens to be Professor at Sogang University in Seoul. He is British, but has lived…
My wife and I found this wikipedia article absolutelty fascinating. An American woman from Pennsylvania working as an architect in New York marries a Korean prince and lives in a…
OK, I lied in my previous post. I haven’t posted for awhile, but I am still trying to get back into it. Why has this suddenly become so difficult since…
Michael Gallagher