Opus Unknown: An Exercise In Metadata Cultivation |

Posted by Laurence Cook on Monday, January 16, 2012 11:07 pm

Cinerama Camera In Action

The video below was posted on YouTube this morning (the thumbnail are pans of Black Rock City in 2003; o.k. not Cinerama, but they are stitched together and fun; close enough for this blog post at 11pm). The video is a 15 minute documentary by Michael J. Cahill, that shows a Cinerama camera in...

Posted by Laurence Cook on Monday, January 16, 2012 10:02 pm

Long Road

After getting this blog set up, I stepped back to let things settle a bit. Today, I made some adjustments (e.g., replaced the images first posted with new ones with watermarks, and tweaked the body code to drop the curved corners that were being blown out by the feature images). Two weeks into the...

Posted by Laurence Cook on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:45 pm

A bit of perspective

Things have been a bit intense lately (well, at least for the last four or five millenia). And given the trends, it is going to be ever so much more so, in the near and midterm. So, it is a good thing to keep things in perspective. Scale of the Universe by Cary Huang with technical support by...

Posted by Laurence Cook on Monday, January 2, 2012 9:16 pm

Exhibition of Art by Finley Fryer @ John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

From January 4th through January 28th, 2012, the eclectic Northern California artist Finley Fryer will present an exhibition of his paintings and sculptures at the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts in Davis, CA. There will be an opening reception on Friday January 13th (7-9pm). Perhaps best known...

Posted by Laurence Cook on Sunday, January 1, 2012 9:16 pm

Working out the kinks…

This template comes with a featured post/page slider on the home page. The template name is Aggregate and it comes from Elegant Themes (also see credit link on bottom of this page). I actually preferred the slider for the Evolution template, but have yet to fully crack the code for replacing one...

Posted by Laurence Cook on Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:33 am

And so it begins……

Greetings! This is my initial post to this blog – Opus Unknown. This blog serves a number of purposes, including: 1) I have large backlog of digital and non-digital content to publish; 2) Experimentation in working with WordPress and WordPress templates; and 3) An exercise in the use of...

Metadata analyst, focused upon data analysis, trans-schema mapping, and database design for still images and audio-visual objects within new media environments. I am a LEEP student in the CAS program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, where I obtained a MSLIS with a data curation emphasis in 2010. For details, see my LinkedIn profile.

Opus Unknown

"Opus Unknown" is an experiment with WordPress as a publishing tool, and to have a bit of fun, while studying the use of WordPress categories, tags, excerpts and content to facilitate search & retrieval within the blog and through search engine harvesting.