Waldo Gifford Leland: Archivist by Association

Waldo Gifford Leland and the Origins of the American Archival Profession. Ed. Peter J. Wosh. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2011. 397p. alk paper, $62.95 (ISBN 1931666407). LC2011-028500

As any professional in the field of archival (or library) science can attest, our field is in flux, as globalization, automation, digiti-zation, and other forces of progress loom on the horizon. With so much transforma-tional change coming so fast, it's tempting to believe that no one has witnessed as much tumult in one lifetime as we have. But reading this volume may offer a pallia-tive view. ...

MAP TRANSFORMATIONS OF GEOGRAPHIC SPACE by WALDO

Many geographic and economic models of human behavior in a spatial context indicate that the measuring rod of the geodesist or surveyor is less relevant than a scaling of distance in temporal or monetary units. It is necessary to take into account not only the shape of the earth but also the realities of transportation on this surface. Automobiles, trains, airplanes, and other media of transpor...

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Jini technology assumes a changing network, in terms of both the components that make up the network and the way these components interact. Networks are generally long-lived entities that, as they grow to include ever-larger populations of users and machines, become increasingly difficult to upgrade as a single entity. That’s why the Jini architecture is designed around support for incrementall...

Mick Thacker and Louis Gifford

Where’s Waldo? Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics

Collinearity diagnostics are widely used, but the typical tabular output used in almost all software makes it hard to tell what to look for and how to understand the results. We describe a simple improvement to the standard tabular display, a graphic rendition of the salient information as a ‘‘tableplot,’’ and graphic displays designed to make the information in these diagnostic methods more re...