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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

Comment on ShipIndex has grown! by Christopher D. Cook

Christopher D. Cook — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:26:27 +0000

You have a few of Donald Shomette’s works in your resources list, but you do not have his _Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608-1978_ (Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1982).

Comment on Comments catastrophe! by peter

peter — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:10:39 +0000

This problem has been fixed; we’re very sorry about this. As a reminder, messages sent in the first few weeks of April weren’t received. Very, very sorry.

Peter

Comment on Last night’s dream by Mary Devine

Mary Devine — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:44:50 +0000

That’s a pretty cool dream. Love the library/freeway thing.

Comment on The messiest metadata yet… by peter

peter — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:32 +0000

Richard –

That’s an interesting thought; I hadn’t considered rescanning the resources that are currently available online. One problem, though, is that the site is using URLs based on their scanned ship names to link from the incorrect OCR’d data to the original scans. So, in order to link to the original scans, we need to keep using the URLs that they created. I’ve been correcting the ship name, or the date of launch information, but not the URL – since its inaccurate name doesn’t matter, as long as it gets you to the original scan.

Peter

Comment on The messiest metadata yet… by Richard

Richard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:17:03 +0000

Do you know if the original scans are available from whatever this was (or available from another source)? Clearly these are OCR errors, I wonder if some of them might be corrected by a) tweaking some of the images so they OCR better. b) some “free” OCR software has a built in limit on accuracy, full versions may be more accurate. Also if this was created using earlier OCR software you might have better luck with the latest versions.