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Knowledge Organization – what’s the story? – London 11-12 September 2017

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If you haven’t already booked, there are only 11 days to go before the start of our biennial conference, at Canada Water Library and Cultural Space in central London; and there’s a great programme  with interesting sessions like “Transforming Open Data to Linked Open Data using Ontologies in Big Data Environments of the Brazilian Govenment”,  “Using Knowledge Organization to interrogate stories in the news”, as well as a panel on that issue and how we should respond as a knowledge organisation community. There are presentations on – the story of knowledge organization – traditional classification…

Anthony Burgess’s lost dictionary of slang discovered

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A Clockwork Orange author only managed entries for three letters and his abortive labours were thought to have gone for ever… The writer Anthony Burgess invented futuristic slang for his cult novel A Clockwork Orange and was so fascinated by the language of the street that he began work on a dictionary more than 50 years ago. Now his lost dictionary of slang, abandoned after several hundred entries covering three letters, has been discovered. The work had been hidden in a vast archive of his papers and possessions held by…

A spat over language erupts at the World Bank

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But arguments over an excess of conjunctions may miss the point A WAR of words has flared up at the World Bank. Paul Romer, its new chief economist, has been stripped of control of the research division. An internal memo claimed that the change was to bring the operations department and research arm closer together. But many think that it was because Mr Romer clashed with staff over the Bank’s writing style. He had demanded shorter, better-written reports. In the most recent spat, Mr Romer questioned the excessive use of…