Comments on: MPACT at CNI - Identity in Scholarly Discourse http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/03/mpact-at-cni-identity-in-scholarly-discourse/ Ideas on interconnections, identity, and information from all sides. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: links for 2008-03-11 at LIS :: Michael Habib http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/03/mpact-at-cni-identity-in-scholarly-discourse/#comment-30486 links for 2008-03-11 at LIS :: Michael Habib Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:22:25 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/03/mpact-at-cni-identity-in-scholarly-discourse/#comment-30486 [...] Terrell Russell: This Old Network : MPACT at CNI - Identity in Scholarly Discourse “MPACT is looking at how mentoring as a scholarly activity can be better measured and quantified. Our larger goal is to make the argument that mentoring is not being rewarded enough when faculty members are evaluated on their productivity.” (tags: elsevier identity mpact scholarlycommunication) [...] [...] Terrell Russell: This Old Network : MPACT at CNI - Identity in Scholarly Discourse “MPACT is looking at how mentoring as a scholarly activity can be better measured and quantified. Our larger goal is to make the argument that mentoring is not being rewarded enough when faculty members are evaluated on their productivity.” (tags: elsevier identity mpact scholarlycommunication) [...]

]]> By: Simon Spero http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/03/mpact-at-cni-identity-in-scholarly-discourse/#comment-30115 Simon Spero Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:37:32 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/03/mpact-at-cni-identity-in-scholarly-discourse/#comment-30115 VIAF deals with individuals, not concepts or classes; the problems of managing the two types of authorities are quite different. It takes orders of magnitudes more time and money to establish a concept as it does to create a name. You'll be glad to know that the LCSH only screws this up half the time. VIAF deals with individuals, not concepts or classes; the problems of managing the two types of authorities are quite different.

It takes orders of magnitudes more time and money to establish a concept as it does to create a name.

You’ll be glad to know that the LCSH only screws this up half the time.

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