Sunday, November 28, 2004
Here's a different approach to searching, by topic clusters: sometimes that can help when you don't really know how to describe what you're looking for (which is probably most of the time, whether you know it or not!).

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Though dot-com is still the most generic internet domain, the mixed message between SemanticBible being a freely available resource but being hosted as a .com was starting to bother me. So i registered semanticbible.org, and i think i've got the redirection working more or less okay now. I intend to hang onto the .com domain as well. Please let me know if you have problems: if i have a strong suit, domain and web site administration isn't it.


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I try to regularly peruse the referrals to SemanticBible and my blog, both because it's interesting to see how people get here, but also because it sometimes tells me what other things people are looking for that are close to my content. That's how i found ricoblog, which has an interesting concordance of  terms, unfortunately only for the Pauline Epistles (and therefore also only an incomplete version of Louw-Nida). I'm still hoping to provide an ontology of content, probably starting with Louw-Nida, through SemanticBible, once i get around to it :-/

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Having the weekend at home with visiting family gave me some time to work on digitizing my music library. A few weeks ago, i bought a 80Gb external hard disk, primarily to have a secondary source for music, photos, and personal backup. So i've been going through our collection of a couple hundred CDs and copying them, one by painful one. Of course, no single disk takes that long (a couple of minutes), so how bad could it be? But there are lots of them, every disk needs to be put in and taken out, and it breaks up the time: so every now and then, when i'm wandering about, i pop in another disk and let it rip.

All the usual problems about organizing information pop into this project too. Most discs already have information in the media database: but it's not always right. For example, a collection of classic symphonies came up with  genre=rock (roll over, Beethoven!). A couple of my brother's disks didn't have any entries at all: i took the time to edit and submit those, but that's more pain than i'm willing to undertake for most. Worst of all, the files are getting ripped as WMA, and i'm sure some other formatwill eventually make these the digital equivalent of 8-track tapes.

I guess there's a lesson here about moving into the Digital Age: just because it's in a digital form doesn't mean it's ready to go.


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