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
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
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.
