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Gender Identity Terms in LCSH

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I have two categorical questions as I am working through LCSH related work part of my cataloging course in my MS-LS degree.

In the case of Gender Identity and sexual orientation based terms, there seems to be an over specification on some terms and an underspecification on contrastive terms. I would like to know if I am reading the assumptions correctly.

For example: There is a LCSH term for Flight Attendants. However, there is also a term for Gay Flight Attendants. Linguistically, this split (marked and unmarked) seems fairly common. So my questions are:

1. Am I to understand that the LCSH term "Flight Attendants" excludes "Gay Flight Attendants", or am I to assume that Flight Attendants is a super-ordinant category one sub-class of which is Gay Flight Attendants (with potentially hundreds other sub-classes left unnamed)?

2. Why were terms related to gender identity and sexual orientation not established as free-floating "modifier terms"? It seems that to be overt about gender identity and sexual orientation in a term one should have "Straight Flight Attendants" to contrast with "Gay Flight Attendants", but the gender identity and sexual orientation literature suggests that this is not a two way distinction so where are all the other terms? Are there minimum requirements for the addition of new terms (15 works or something like that, but then how does one go back and re-classify materials like this)? It seems from an entity management perspective that making Gender Identity terms free-floating allows for the fewest number of entities with the greatest amount of descriptive power. The gender identity and sexual orientation modification pattern applies equally well to the religious identity terms. Consider: "Muslim Flight Attendants".

With regard to #2 above is this the difference between a noun-noun construction and a adjective-noun construction?

A couple of Academic Papers on the subject:

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kT4THMkDbE8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA212&dq=gender+identity+Library+of+congress+subject+heading&ots=KASutPRf-9&sig=m6D4lnIUR7-sh8b9XKPKst1uTyo#v=onepage&q=gender%20identity%20Library%20of%20congress%20subject%20heading&f=false

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19322900903341099
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/706989/summary
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J104v43n01_03
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1682848331?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/102490
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0943-7444-2012-5-370.pdf

OLAC and PREMIS

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During the presentation yesterday on PREMIS, which I liked very much, it seemed that a multi-author survey of archival institutions which conduct media transference and also participate in OLAC, would be an interesting group project which would have publishable results.

Such a project might have three components:

  1. A “crosswalk style” mapping between PREMIS data values or fields and where those may appear in the OLAC profile. (How would one know if this information were available? or put another way, if an institution were to use this framework how could they publish that metadata via the OLAC profile?)
  2. A review of current practice as evidenced by what we can see in OLAC records. (Are institutions contributing this metadata? and in what capacitiy?)
  3. A questionnaire or interview with specific institutions conducting digitization. Offhand I think the following do digitization: Alaska Native Language Archive, Kaipuleohone,  SIL L&CA, PARIDESIC, Oxford Text Archive, and the COllections de COrpus Oraux Numeriques (CoCoON ex-CRDO). (In what ways are institutions solving the problems that PREMIS helps to solve?) 
https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

University of North Texas Collects Social Security Numbers for Multi-Factor Authentication

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As part of its security framework, the University of North Texas (UNT) is rolling out DUO. DUO is a personal device approval system for accessing university leased software-as-service offerings. From a business point of view, if the University needs to verify or limit the use of leased licenses to only registered (qualified) individuals (at the behest of the software leasing agency, or in consequence to possible greater financial liability) then the approach makes sense. Duo falls under a broad category of multi-factor authentication (MFA) tools. Some user must use two communication tools to access some knowledge or digital service. MFA is seen as a "best current practice" in the security field. However, it is, from a user's perspective, perhaps the most annoying addition to our lives. It presumes that one has not only the computer that is trying to access the service but also that the person has a cell-based mobile device, and that that device is currently connected to a larger network. It is not clear to me that DUO is not actively recording and reporting other neighboring bluetooth devices as facebook's apps have been reported to do. That is, the security leak that DUO has the potential to be is perhaps just as much as the risk to networks with single factor authentication. The exact technical nature of DUO's "verification" process are not transparent. I have been using DUO at the University of Oregon for over a year.

The UNT process of rolling out DUO requires that potential users enter their US social security number (SSN) into the website during the verification process. This bit of personally identifying information seems to be over-reach or poor information architecture. The UNT web-application collecting the information does not explain to the user:

  • how the SSN is processed (why it is needed), or
  • how it is stored, or
  • when they will dispose of the information submitted on the form.

A student's SSN is part of the federally protected student information and is in general a valuable piece of information to have. Requesting the SSN via a website after a student has already been admitted to the University seems like it opens the University up for a targeted attack on that particular web application. This process put the SSN in the realm of data-in-transit where previously the SSN was only data-at-rest. The clever attacker would not try to spoof DUO or access the UNT network, but rather sniff the data in transit as it is communicated for the purposes of creating an authentication system. Reporting my SSN for the process of creating a DUO account was not necessary when I made my DUO account at the University of Oregon.

When I called the UNT IT office to ask about this I was put in a hold que by an automated answering service and then the automated service terminated the call without a response from me.

South Sister Climb

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I took Katja to climb South Sister. We made our attempt on September 17th. We left Eugene on the 16th and camped on OR-126. Made it to the Dee Wight observatory for sunrise.

Took a stop in Bend at the grocery store for yogurt for breakfast.

I wasn't sure if we were going to summit and down in one day or if we were going to camp around Moraine Lake and summit the next day. The camping area on T36 and the trail to Moraine Lake is slightly out of the wind but has lots of prickly grass. Not a super smooth place to camp.

Broken Top from T36

We started up TR36.1, joined TR36 and marched to the top — almost. We started at about 5500 feet elevation and ended just at about 8,000 feet with a distance round trip trek of about 3.84 miles one way (7.68 miles round trip). Great work for a 7 year-old! I need to bring us gloves next time and more food and more water. Finding a backpack for her would be awesome and take some of the weight off of my shoulders. She needs shoes that tie rather than velcro shoes.

Start: 1,44.03711822899115,-121.76427483558656,5479.003

Turn-around point: 4,44.08561748668657,-121.76805038005115,8028.215

map with trail outlined.

Approximate trail. T36 is not visible through the woods on satellite view.

Some links for planning south sister climb

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In honor of my little girl's seventh birthday I planned an accent to south sister for us.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/deschutes/recarea/?recid=38846
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd509056.pdf
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/oregon/south-sister-trail

Three Sisters Loop: Devils Lake to Green Lakes


https://www.oregon.com/recreation/hike-south-sister

Upgrading Lenovo ThinkPads

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Lenovo ThinkPads (T530 edition) seem to be my all time favorite laptop... Extremely rugged... I run ubuntu. I'm looking at upgrading to a W530.

Here are some links.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/475177/clone-a-hard-disk-using-dd-from-a-smaller-hard-disk-to-a-larger-disk

https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Intel/Core_i7_Mobile_Extreme_Edition/i7-3940XM.html
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_W530.pdf

I need to update the BIOS:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-bios-version-linux/

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t530/downloads/DS029246
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update-lenovo-bios-from-linux-usb-stick-pen/

How To Make Ubuntu Look Like Mac (In 5 Steps)

wifi:

T530 Wireless Upgrade?
byu/MambaBlanca inthinkpad


https://photonicsguy.ca/projects/t530
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=N-6300+Card+with+the+FRU+60Y3233&_sacat=0

upgrade the hd
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/475177/clone-a-hard-disk-using-dd-from-a-smaller-hard-disk-to-a-larger-disk

Buy usb
https://www.amazon.com/USB-Flash-Drives-Storage-Add-Ons/b?ie=UTF8&node=3151491

update the network:
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/beginners-guide-to-setting-up-a-network-level-ad-blocker-fbac66dbac0
https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/mk83/

Home

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Install+an+mSATA+SSD+for+the+OS+and+keep+the+HDD+as+storage/129625

https://www.wastalinux.org/tutorials/inplace-upgrade/

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update-lenovo-bios-from-linux-usb-stick-pen/

In my upgrade process I want to make sure that I am also able to use Zotero with my workflow and either use a remarkable tablet or a boox tablet. Here are some links in that direction:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/91246/zotero-and-onyx-boox-worth-it
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/97517/remarkable-2-integration
https://michael.mior.ca/blog/zotero-remarkable-sync/
BOOX Note Air Set With Free Accessories

Experience using the reMarkable 2 as a Linux tablet
byu/eRancherCO inRemarkableTablet


https://remarkable.com/#Specifications

BCP-47 and sign languages

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For the purposes of tagging language resources By language, when a language code for a sign language is used is the default assumption that the language resource is in the visual/video modality, rather than the textual format? Or is BCP-47 agnostic to these assumptions of modality? For the purposes of ANIA repository of tags, is there a specified suffix for the written modality of sign languages?

What is the case for Brail? Is there a script tag for brail? (Yes there is). But the orthographic representation in brail is still ambiguous.

iOS mail app and UNT

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It seems that iOS mail app does not work with the UNT servers. This seems to be an overgeneralization. I contacted UNT helpdesk for assistance. I set up my account correctly and then it downloaded one message which stated that the service was blocked on my device. So account creation was successful, but there is something on their end... The UNT help desk was unhelpful in that they couldn't tell me anything except that "sometimes the mail app doesn't work with our servers, we recommend using the outlook app". Well it does work, else I wouldn't have successfully downloaded the email message saying I was blocked...

The best guess I can come up with is that older versions of mail app in iOS are blocked because they have a security flaw in them or UNT has middleware deployed on its ActiveSync connections.