A water ride at Luna Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 1905. LC access. If you’re like most people… … you’ve probably been to an amusement park and gone down a boat that’s pulled up a steep incline, and then shot down a long ramp into water. You’re splashe…
National Digital Stewardship Resident Jessica Tieman is helping the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) prepare to become the first Federal agency to be certified under ISO 16363, the Trusted Digital Repository Checklist (TDR).
Still no answer to Part 1… but I DID find the missing blueprints. Hint: I found it by adding in the “context search term” museum. As in,[ Devil’s Slide museum ] Meaning, “find me entities about Devil’s Slide in museums.” This trick worked remarka…
So… This IS tricky. So I’m just going to answer the second part of last week’s Challenge. We’ll get to the “how to search the coastline” later. (As I kind of suspected, it’s one of those questions that requires a bit more work than usual. Maybe…
Yes, it really is hard to search… … all of the coastlines of all the world. In the comments on last week’s Challenge, a few readers (looking at you, Remmij!) expressed skepticism that my approach would work in general. And in general, that’s true…
From the Cronkite Journalism School in Phoenix… … I’m writing this is one of the classrooms before giving my talk about “Deep Search,” which is pretty much what the topic of SearchResearch is all about. It’s a fascinating time to reflect on the co…
I have a file… … of SearchResearch Challenges that I keep updated with new questions. In that document I’ve got a few in the “Odds & Ends” category. Here are a couple of quick questions that have come up in the past few months that I can’t wo…
Generally speaking… …how do you know if it’s faked or real? These days, with wonderfully competent photo editing software, and the sheer number of people generating content, it’s sometimes really hard to tell. Let’s tackle each of these Challenge…
Sorry folks, but it’s been a busy few days, and I neglected to note that I’d be super-busy today. It’s all good, but I didn’t think to write up my Answer for today well ahead of time. Usually I get up early on Monday morning and write everything up fo…
Unfortunately… … people have been faking stories, photos, and claims for as long as humans have been around. Of course now we’re aided by technology, which sometimes makes these deceptions a bit more difficult to ferret out. Here’s an early famou…
This was simpler than I thought… Although I’m intrigued by flowers and such, I didn’t think that searching out the answer would be as simple as it was! Seems to me that when I looked it up (a few years ago, admittedly), this was a much more difficu…
I was out running… … in Southern California last July. As I ran, I found a remarkable white flower growing by the side of the road near the Santa Monica mountains. It’s a large and beautiful flower, maybe 4 inches across, and quite striking. S…
Turns out, it’s tricky… Well, at least the first couple of images were fairly easy to figure out. Let’s look at these and then talk about the last pair of cake images. The first image appeared in my Facebook stream by a friend who wondered how on e…
The Wikid GRRLS project teaches girls online skills for knowledge projects. It has been found that the use of computers in school can offset the “digital divide” but various factors play a role in how effective schools can be at ameliorating the divide. Depending on what skills are emphasized, it may be that some students know how to use some computer functions, but they do not know how to problem solve and use the computer in a holistic sense. Exploring what it means to know how to use a computer in a holistic sense is a possible area of future study for Wikid GRLLS.
Join Future Tense in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 as they explore some of the most important questions facing libraries.