Tentative plans for the new borough center are for a 55,000 square-foot building with in-depth reference collections and a Latino cultural center.
The Gotham's ground floor is a veritable cave of paper, bound floor to ceiling in anthologies, novels, picture books, magazines, reference collections and nonfiction, each stacked or shelved according to subjects that are announced by tattered signs dangling overhead.
By comparing the condition of each sample with what is known about other old parchment and unexposed examples in reference collections, conservators will establish a standard of deterioration for each document, Ms. Nicholson said.
The sites include detailed reference collections, encyclopedias of librettos, fan pages dedicated to performers, archives of rare audio clips and global listings of schedules and performances -- the better for planning that much-anticipated trip to Vienna or San Francisco.
The Web is largely unorganized, and the information on its pages is of greatly varying quality, including commercial information, national databases, research reference collections, and collections of personal material.
He became the most knowledgable and resourceful antiquary of his time, travelling for weeks on horseback as he toured derelict abbeys, drew monuments and amassed huge reference collections of English place names, inscriptions, window shapes (by which he learned to date buildings), and samples of handwriting from across six centuries (which helped him in the dating of manuscripts).
They are aging, and cannot respond quickly to all the calls for their skills; there is limited access to the taxonomic work published so far; identifying and naming organisms can be difficult and time-consuming, and there are too few reference collections and libraries around the world.
The Natural History Museum is making a virtue of necessity, and turning its reference collections and its researchers into exhibits in their own right.At the beginning of 2001, some 20m animal specimens preserved in alcohol will travel the short distance from their old, cramped home to a brand new building next door.
Evaluation is often based on assembling reference collections consisting of documents, queries and relevance judgments done by humans.
Real potential for up-scaling such simple mobile sampling systems will become apparent as more sophisticated technologies are applied that can automate capture, geo-reference collections, and be compatible to either rapid in-situ or downstream analysis (see next section).
The type specimen is the male n°54-4330 from the Centre for Thai National Reference collections, collected by W.A. Neill in 1973 at Wat Tham Prapothisat, in the Saraburi Province (Kaengkhoi District, Thailand, 14°35'N X 101°8'E) (see [ 33] for further details).
