Codification is really a special case of something we might call "fragmentary re-use" — an application in which a document snippet, or other excerpt from an object, is reused outside its parent.
This post is about identifiers, and particularly document identifiers : snippets of text that uniquely identify documents that are either generated by the legislative process or are found in its vicinity.
As she was writing what became Is it Evil, she had been calling the collection of word documents Creative Snippets and Observations.
The app creates thumbnails for "nearly every kind of file you can imagine, camera RAWS, office documents, code snippets, images, videos and many others," Cloudup Engineer TJ Holowaychuk wrote on Medium last week.
You upload a document or text snippet and the system scans it, looking for the least common words and phrases — which generally indicate things like topic, experiment type, equipment used, that sort of thing.
Today, most of the world's information is organized in digital documents, videos, and information snippets stored on a server, and ubiquitously accessible on the net.
Pearltrees, the Paris-based online curation service that launched in late 2009, was always known for its rather quirky Flash-based interface that allowed you to organize web bookmarks, photos, text snippets and documents into a mindmap-like structure.
The gussied-up baby, the record-breaking fish… but outside of a half-dozen randomly beautiful instances throughout the year (never the expected ones), isn't the desire to document distracting from the snippet of time we're so desperate to preserve?
She was also a keeper of the Altman history, documenting his career and their life together in papers, photographs, film snippets and scrapbooks, a personal archive that is at the heart of the Robert Altman Collection at the University of Michigan.
(This one comes in at an overly, sometimes awkwardly, compressed 75 minutes). "Ordinary Miracles" is extremely likable and has value as a historical document specifically because it includes snippets from a dozen later-life interviews with Photo League members like Rosalie Gwathmey and Mr. Engel.
