This is a planet of young people. The majority of people in the world today are too young to have experienced the anticipation (and often dread) of Y2K. Y2K was the moment when all the operating systems on Earth (except the Macintosh OS) would roll over to the date 0000-00-00, and crash. It was the […]
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Notes: Global Descriptors
This record illustrates a descriptor that we classify as a Global Descriptor, or a subject descriptor that will result in a record being included in all of the area studies databases. In this record, that descriptor is “Internet”, Coronavirus, Global Warming, Internet, Oceanography, Offshore Banking and Tax Havens. ===== [Sample Record] Title: “Aramco In Talks […]
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Ethnonyms One subset of Geographic descriptors are Ethnonyms, that is, the names of peoples, often self-selected, often official, sometimes historical and/or anachronistic, occasionally fictitious (Wakandans), but (hopefully) never perjorative. The number of ethnonyms that appear in the databases is more than 10,000, and even this is just a small part of the constantly multiplying numbers […]
Continue readingNotes: Descriptors Are Not Always What They Seem
Notes: Descriptors Are Not Always What They Seem Descriptors seem to be very precise, but that is not always true in the manner one might expect. The descriptor Centralization is used in records that describe both Centralization and Decentralization. In part this is done to reduced them number of descriptors (if all words are descriptors, […]
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