{"id":4352,"date":"2010-10-07T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/librarianaut.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2010-10-07T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:55:28","slug":"lego-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/2010\/10\/07\/lego-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"lego and the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our classification class the other day we learned about faceted classification systems, which sounds amazingly exciting doesn’t it? I wouldn’t have thought so, except that our in-class activity was building one of these systems for organizing Lego. Which made it awesome.<\/p>\n

I am a bit of a Lego nerd and loved the idea of building a system that would allow you to find things based on your needs at the time. If I may say so, we built a pretty good fucking scheme which, had we had more time, could have been extended to be much better than how Bricklink<\/a> does it. I was really into the whole thing. As in, it was the kind of thing I’d have fun doing a lot of.<\/p>\n

Which is interesting because I didn’t really come into the program thinking “I’m going to be a cataloguer” or anything like that. I’m not anal about keeping everything in its right place, which I’d had the impression was a requirement. But I’m kind of excited about the puzzles sorting Lego can provide. And creating these schemes is sort of a form of describing, right? Describing stuff is why I write, and this is describing with a very controlled vocabulary. Slotting things into their place in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our classification class the other day we learned about faceted classification systems, which sounds amazingly exciting doesn’t it? I wouldn’t have thought so, except that our in-class activity was building one of these systems for organizing Lego. Which made it awesome. I am a bit of a Lego nerd and loved the idea of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[284269,3804,2728,284555,164611,113587,285735,285993,194,7053],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-bricklink","tag-cataloguing","tag-classification","tag-controlled-vocabulary","tag-description","tag-lego","tag-libr502","tag-mlis","tag-school","tag-slais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/unrau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}