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The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | The next step is to attend to the information plumbing. | ||
- | === Organisation: | + | === Organisation |
- separate the more from the less " | - separate the more from the less " | ||
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- an **ephemera** section, due to the vast quantity of brochures, leaflets, postcards, flyers, etc. that has accumulated; | - an **ephemera** section, due to the vast quantity of brochures, leaflets, postcards, flyers, etc. that has accumulated; | ||
- at any time, the library can expand or contract with **temporary autonomous subsections** (such as Luea's specialised (and largely German-language) section of all manner of medical, medicinal and metaphysical books) | - at any time, the library can expand or contract with **temporary autonomous subsections** (such as Luea's specialised (and largely German-language) section of all manner of medical, medicinal and metaphysical books) | ||
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- | === Zotero catalogue notes === | ||
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- | * need to decide on convention for the " | ||
- | * either use ISO 639-3 three letter codes. multiple languages separated by commas (e.g '' | ||
- | * or use the more expansive/ | ||
- | * // | ||
=== General notes === | === General notes === | ||
- | * in the case of books, | + | * I have chosen to file books alphabetically by **name** of the first author/ |
* linking to/from the [[: | * linking to/from the [[: | ||
- | * often it's unavoidable that you'll have to manually enter and amend data in Zotero where automation fails: this can be time-consuming | ||
* Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; one solution is to catalogue them as " | * Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. articles in journals) rather than whole issues; one solution is to catalogue them as " | ||
- | * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: | + | * I'm using the following format to note the individual issues of periodicals: |
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- | === New books ==== | + | |
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- | - find an interesting book | + | |
- | - add to the 'book orders' | + | |
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==== Further entangling ==== | ==== Further entangling ==== | ||
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* http:// | * http:// | ||
* http:// | * http:// | ||
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- | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. | ||
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- | This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything to everything else, demonstrates most acutely the issue with filing items according to a single -- or even predominant -- topic or subject area. At the same time, with items digitally catalogued and instantly searchable by any field (including tags), the physical arrangement becomes less critical for indicating an item's subject, class, or other characteristic. The library is also small and seems unlikely to grow rapidly in the foreseeable future. Therefore, after some (uneven and random) thought, and a close perusal of [[library_notes|existing notes]] on this question, I decided to take the semi-organic organisational approach as indicated below. | ||
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- | --- //Armoracio " |