Day: January 26, 2017

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying

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An essayist looks into the curious past of pathological collectors – and considers her own lifelong urge to hoard ever more volumes By Elaine Berry (@BerryFLW) When I was a young woman, I drew a sort of perverse pride from my willingness to skip a meal or two in order to afford books. Soon enough, with the ubiquity of credit card touts on campus, I could buy both books and meals. I justified my increasing debt as necessary for my education, and joked with friends that while others spent their…

[JOB] Translation training placements at the European Parliament

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Translation training placements at the European Parliament EU0010000560 The European Parliament offers the opportunity to undertake translation training placements to applicants who have obtained a secondary-school leaving certificate corresponding to the level required for entry to university or who have followed a higher or technical course of study to an equivalent level. Such placements are intended in particular for applicants who are required to complete a training placement as part of their course of study. Applicants for a translation training placement must: – be nationals of a Member State of…

Δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 : «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων»

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Δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 : «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων»   Ο ΕΣΥΠ/ΕΛΟΤ ανακοινώνει την υποβολή σε δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17, «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων». Το Πρότυπο ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 αποτελεί την ελληνική έκδοση του Διεθνούς Προτύπου ISO/ΙΕC 2382–17:1999, Information Technology – Vocabulary – Part 17:  Databases και περιλαμβάνει, στα ελληνικά, όρους και ορισμούς των βασικών εννοιών των βάσεων δεδομένων, καθώς και τις αντιστοιχίες των όρων στις γλώσσες ελληνική, αγγλική, και γαλλική. Το πρότυπο ΕΛΟΤ 996 περιλαμβάνει…

Open Government Comes to CIA: Agency Posts Millions of Declassified Docs

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By: Iulia Gheorghiu Beth Daley Impact Fellow, POGO The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a searchable archive of over 13 million pages of declassified materials online. The long-awaited access to the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST database) was granted as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the media outlet MuckRock and pressure from government transparency advocates. Access to the CREST database was previously restricted to the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. Researchers, journalists, and other members of the public who wanted to access data…