http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2010/02/cern-document-servercern-document-server/ where physics and life collide Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:26:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2010/02/cern-document-servercern-document-server/comment-page-1/#comment-4465 Scott Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:28:47 +0000 http://www.cernlove.org/blog/?p=1325#comment-4465 This was absolutely hysterical. Someone must have read this post though because the "home" is gone, and "shite" is no more... This was absolutely hysterical. Someone must have read this post though because the “home” is gone, and “shite” is no more…

]]> http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2010/02/cern-document-servercern-document-server/comment-page-1/#comment-341 breadhat Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:17:45 +0000 http://www.cernlove.org/blog/?p=1325#comment-341 Regarding "fulltext," by simply eliminating a hyphen, they managed to make the term quite a bit more jargon-y than it ought to be. As far as I can tell, they are just making the basic distinction between bibliographic records (i.e., brief citations of documents, maybe accompanied by abstracts) and full-text (i.e., the documents themselves, usually scanned facsimiles). What throws me off a little is why you would call this a "document server" when only a third of your records have complete documents attached to them. I might be crazy, but to me that term implies that you are slanging NOTHING BUT full-text, while this is simply a punk-ass bibliographic database. Regarding “fulltext,” by simply eliminating a hyphen, they managed to make the term quite a bit more jargon-y than it ought to be. As far as I can tell, they are just making the basic distinction between bibliographic records (i.e., brief citations of documents, maybe accompanied by abstracts) and full-text (i.e., the documents themselves, usually scanned facsimiles). What throws me off a little is why you would call this a “document server” when only a third of your records have complete documents attached to them. I might be crazy, but to me that term implies that you are slanging NOTHING BUT full-text, while this is simply a punk-ass bibliographic database.

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