A few commenters even listed catalogs, whether from B. Altman or Bonwitt Teller or more generally, as News Viewer wrote, "What kid didn't drool over the Christmas toy catalog?" The comments often told a story.
The widget catalog (recent comments/ feed/ Flickr / Delicious and others) is not huge yet, but it sure will be soon.
His personal behavior and at times off-kilter remarks drew attention, and the Web site Gawker set up a running feature cataloging his comments.
Together, they learned to catalog, transcribe, comment on, and mark up (according to TEI standards) two medieval manuscript rolls from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's collection.
The efforts of the Manchu rulers, from the beginning of their rule, to become assimilated into Chinese culture bred strongly conservative Confucian political and cultural attitudes in official society and stimulated a great period of collecting, cataloging, and commenting upon the traditions of the past.
"We're really still in the stage of just cataloging," Leahy commented, pointing out that there are "many years of hard work" to better understand these factors.
Running like a doleful leitmotif through the catalog are such comments as "Cesnola's 'restorations' have drastically altered this unusual sculpture" and "these heads may not have originally belonged to the bodies".
In an interview in the exhibition catalog, Mr. Mu comments that the notes are neither a literary work, nor calligraphy or painting, and says that they cannot be interpreted.
Mr. Crosno said that of about 60 staff members, half focused on data collection — by scraping information from public Web sites, submitting open-records requests, perusing course catalogs and gathering student comments — and the other half focused on turning that data into user-friendly applications.
In form, the book is a catalog of his writings with comments on the circumstances of their composition and with the retractions or rectifications he would make in hindsight.
Mr. Thomson would not comment on the catalog notation.
