Numbered drawers holding objects in the collection of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the earliest learned societies in England, founded 1710 [my photo]
If they have, you might not have thought so from the ISKO-UK annual conference (7 October 2025). …
Sounds unlikely, but that was the basis for a remarkable talk by Bob Kasenchak (co-authored by Ahren Lehnert) at an ISKO Meetup (14 June 2022). The talk began in uncompromising fashion with the cover of a famous work by French postmodernist …
Reading Time: 4minutes “Partial view of Wikipedia’s category system from 2007. Arrows point from category to sub-category.”
I’ve written before about Wikipedia categories, using the example of a brand of toothpaste, and this post is an attempt to understand them a bit better. …
Reading Time: < 1minuteA recent book on Alfred Kinsey (Donna Drucker, The Classification of Sex, University of Pittsburgh Press) describes Kinsey’s great innovation as taxonomic.
By ordering individuals on a scale of 0-6 instead of a heterosexual-bisexual-homosexual triad model (or even a
