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elspethdixon) wrote2007-05-17 07:26 am
elspethdixon) wrote2007-05-17 07:26 am
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A second instalment of "Captain America Explains Information Structure"
Good news on the paper front-apparently, it only has to be five-ten single-spaced pages, not eight to ten, so if I can write another page (getting me to a solid five) I should be able to append my three pages of hierarchical linear arrangement for comics titles and get eight pages, and hand that in for a solid B )at least I'll have fulfilled the requirement of proving I understand the course concepts and citing the text and readings five times).
So, for those who care deeply about hierarchical arrangements (probably about as many of you as cared about entity-relationships), here's another excerpt from the paper:
Marvel and DC comics titles (particularly Marvel, which is more tightly structured than DC) are all connected with one another to varying degrees, and the publishers themselves loosely organize groups of titles into “families” based on setting or characters. I have expanded upon this loose structure to create a linear arrangement of titles organized by setting and character category. Here is an example from a segment of the “Marvel” section of the arrangement to demonstrate (the full list is appended to the end of this paper):
Marvel (inclusive)
.....1602 (inclusive)
..........1602
..........1602: Fantastic Four
.....Marvel Adventures (inclusive)
..........Marvel Adventures: Avengers
..........Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four
..........Marvel Adventures: Hulk
..........Marvel Adventures: Iron Man
..........Marvel Adventures: Spiderman
.....Marvel 616 (inclusive)
..........Avengers (inclusive)
...............Avengers
...............Captain America
...............Iron Man
...............Mighty Avengers
...............Ms. Marvel
...............New Avengers
...............Young Avengers
These titles would all be linked by binary relationships, as demonstrated in the lecture notes for lecture 4.2. For example, “Captain America [included in] Avengers (inclusive) [included in] Marvel 616” and the converse, “Marvel 616 [has subdivision] Avengers (inclusive) [has subdivision] Captain America.” Offspring neighborhoods of concepts, as stated in the readings for Week Four, “implement inclusive (hierarchically expanded) searching, searching for a descriptor and all its narrower descriptors.” This arrangement of titles would allow the user to search inclusively for all titles set in the “Marvel Adventures” universe, for example, or all titles featuring the Avengers. Or all titles set in Gotham, arranged under “Batman (inclusive),” and including Nightwing, Birds of Prey, and other Batman-related titles as well as “Batman.”
This categorization scheme can also be used to physically shelve single and bound issues of comic books, the same way that Dewey or LCC could be used. I have tested it on my own collection of Marvel comics and found that it works very well, and is more efficient for locating issues than simply shelving them alphabetically (as most comic book stores do). It can even be expanded to encompass DVDs as well (the Spiderman movie DVDs can be included under the Spiderman section, the Iron Man cartoon under the Avengers section, and so forth).
Steve doesn't agree that his presence makes hierarchical categorization more interesting. Look how sullen he looks in the GIP (Tony, on the other hand, probably would find it fascinating).
So, for those who care deeply about hierarchical arrangements (probably about as many of you as cared about entity-relationships), here's another excerpt from the paper:
Marvel and DC comics titles (particularly Marvel, which is more tightly structured than DC) are all connected with one another to varying degrees, and the publishers themselves loosely organize groups of titles into “families” based on setting or characters. I have expanded upon this loose structure to create a linear arrangement of titles organized by setting and character category. Here is an example from a segment of the “Marvel” section of the arrangement to demonstrate (the full list is appended to the end of this paper):
Marvel (inclusive)
.....1602 (inclusive)
..........1602
..........1602: Fantastic Four
.....Marvel Adventures (inclusive)
..........Marvel Adventures: Avengers
..........Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four
..........Marvel Adventures: Hulk
..........Marvel Adventures: Iron Man
..........Marvel Adventures: Spiderman
.....Marvel 616 (inclusive)
..........Avengers (inclusive)
...............Avengers
...............Captain America
...............Iron Man
...............Mighty Avengers
...............Ms. Marvel
...............New Avengers
...............Young Avengers
These titles would all be linked by binary relationships, as demonstrated in the lecture notes for lecture 4.2. For example, “Captain America [included in] Avengers (inclusive) [included in] Marvel 616” and the converse, “Marvel 616 [has subdivision] Avengers (inclusive) [has subdivision] Captain America.” Offspring neighborhoods of concepts, as stated in the readings for Week Four, “implement inclusive (hierarchically expanded) searching, searching for a descriptor and all its narrower descriptors.” This arrangement of titles would allow the user to search inclusively for all titles set in the “Marvel Adventures” universe, for example, or all titles featuring the Avengers. Or all titles set in Gotham, arranged under “Batman (inclusive),” and including Nightwing, Birds of Prey, and other Batman-related titles as well as “Batman.”
This categorization scheme can also be used to physically shelve single and bound issues of comic books, the same way that Dewey or LCC could be used. I have tested it on my own collection of Marvel comics and found that it works very well, and is more efficient for locating issues than simply shelving them alphabetically (as most comic book stores do). It can even be expanded to encompass DVDs as well (the Spiderman movie DVDs can be included under the Spiderman section, the Iron Man cartoon under the Avengers section, and so forth).
Steve doesn't agree that his presence makes hierarchical categorization more interesting. Look how sullen he looks in the GIP (Tony, on the other hand, probably would find it fascinating).
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Ah, run-on sentences. Apparently, school ending has destroyed my ability to think in a grammatical fashion.
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".. and I'm a DC."
All Marvel characters are Mac people. Superman as we all know, is the PC guy.
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