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Comment on Old Ship Picture Galleries temporarily down – what should ShipIndex do? by peter

peter — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:03:27 +0000

I decided to remove the data, and I did so this morning. It certainly hurt to remove over 100,000 citations from my database, but if the site comes back, I will quickly return the data to the database.

It seemed to me that having over 100,000 bad links visible to users wasn’t a benefit to anyone, and taking them out was the only thing to do. I hope to follow up with the webmaster and the individual who has been bugging him, to see if there’s anything that can be done here, but I don’t hold out much hope for it.

As with the PMARS datafile (http://blog.shipindex.org/2013/02/deleting-data-sometimes-it-must-be-done/), this is a good example of the true impermanence of digital data. Content online can disappear at any time, for any reason.

Comment on “The Genealogy Event” in NYC, and Glazier ‘Immigrants to America’ series by peter

peter — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:47:24 +0000

Just after posting this, I learned that next year’s show will be November 1 & 2, 2013, again at Metropolitan Pavilion. Put it on your calendar!

Comment on Report from Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE by Joy Fitzpatrick, nee Merry

Joy Fitzpatrick, nee Merry — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:42:41 +0000

My Father , Alan Merry was a Japanese interpreter in the Royal Navy. I know that when we were in Melbourne aout feb 1942 until 1945 he had been working with the US .
I was only a baby then and my parents died 1983 and 1984
so I heard little of what they were doing. I had stoies of the admiral sendin the car US 1 when we were sick to take us up to the hills and friends phoning to say that they had a delivery of food so have the oven on at a certain time as they were coming to dinner. I still have a silver dollar I was given by one of them. I would love to know more about the work they were doing.

Comment on More on US Navy ship naming by Wazzup Now – Still into Ships? « Ash N. Finn

Wazzup Now – Still into Ships? « Ash N. Finn — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:24:08 +0000

[...] me even subscribes to ship related tweets one of which got me to visit the SHIPINDEX.org blog today and here’s what made me anchor there for a [...]

Comment on Watch out for inaccurate citation numbers! by peter

peter — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:13:39 +0000

Everything is back to normal! Great news. Now we head to London to tell the world about ShipIndex.org.

Comment on The death of the semantic web by martynas

martynas — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:34:03 +0000

The rumors of the death of the Semantic Web are greatly exaggerated.
OWL is the answer to all your questions:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-primer-20091027/

Comment on On the naming of ships by peter

peter — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:27:27 +0000

Thanks for the note. I will add that book to our list of titles to incorporate. It’d be a great addition.

Comment on On the naming of ships by Lewis Gordon

Lewis Gordon — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:50:02 +0000

Hope you will find the book interesting and will add it to your list.

Comment on On the naming of ships by Lewis Gordon

Lewis Gordon — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:45:46 +0000

Seeing reference to submarine SSN23 I wondered if there would be any interest in Electric Boat Company and its history of building submarjnes. There is a book written by Jeffrey L. Rodengen titled “The Legend of Electric Boat” It has quite a bit of information about submarines built at that shipyard.I worked at the shipyard from 1951 (start of the Nautilus) to 1984 in the Design Department on Reactor and Engine Room Compartments

Comment on ShipIndex has grown! by peter

peter — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:25 +0000

Thanks very much for the reference. I think I’ve looked at that title, but don’t remember its specifics. I will be sure to add its contents as soon as I have a chance. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Peter