The German government's coalition plans to empower the executive branch to designate "safe countries of origin" through regulatory decrees, bypassing parliament... https://news.osna.fm/?p=18742 | #news #classifications #coalition #country #plans
Coalition Plans to Streamline Safe Country Classifications - Osna.FM

Controversial new German law allows government to designate safe countries of origin, bypassing the Federal Council. Learn more about the SPD's defense of this policy and the constitutional debate.

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Current status: babysitting the computer while it is converting #BIC #classifications to #Thema. #OpenAccess #OAPEN Library #DOAB

Prejudice but no pride: The Portuguese Universal Decimal Classification's labelling of sexual orientation

https://doi.org/10.1177/034003522312057

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Six Useful Abstractions

Information architecture is conveyed through diagrams. These six types are key.

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Tabea Lurk (2022). Please mind the gap(s)! Kunst als Daten im Kontext einer wissenschaftlichen Fachbibliothek. Young Information Scientist 7 (2022), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.25365/yis-2022-7-3 #FAIRPrinciples #Arts #DataManagement #Typologies #Classifications
Please mind the gap(s)! | Young Information Scientist

Such a fantastic paper by Moran Levy on the relationship between diagnosis and therapy!

A powerful argument for the importance of social science for understanding medical #classifications and medical practice.

Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221110137

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A book review of "Classifying the Cosmos: How We Can Make Sense of the Celestial Landscape" by Steven J. Dick, that attempts to classify astronomical objects via a taxonomy.

#Astronomy #Space #Classifications

https://astrobites.org/2019/11/21/book-review-classifying-the-cosmos/

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Book Review: A Classification System for All of Astronomy

In his new book, astronomer and former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick outlines a classification system for all of astronomy. Will it catch on?

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