Comments on: Garbage 101: Acquiring Domain Knowledge

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience, Janet. I went through a similar process when writing for NCI terminology editors. The editors had varying levels of experience. We included a chapter on how OWL is being used at the NCI, but for more general information, we referred readers to the many outstanding ground-level OWL tutorials that are available on the web.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:34:21 +0000

Thanks, Jay! We’re finally moved in, but we have more boxes than furniture.

By: Janet Swisher

Janet Swisher — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:18:46 +0000

When I was documenting geophysical modeling applications for the petroleum industry, I had to figure out what was “common knowledge” among “ordinary” geophysicists, as opposed to the novel approaches and algorithms that the cutting-edge experts on the project had developed. One strategy I used was to look up concepts in a college geophysics textbook; if it was in there, then “Joe Geophysicist” either knew it, or ought to know it, and I didn’t need to explain it.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:49:25 +0000

Eddie,

You will never know how much I wish I lived nearby! When our disposer died, I thought nothing of going to the store, purchasing a new one, bringing it home and installing it. If I had bee in the neighborhood, I would have gladly done the same you you.

Here’s hoping the move went (or is going) well. Please give Greg a hug from both of us!

Welcome to home ownership!!!!!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:16:13 +0000

Glad to oblige. Now, for those other items… At least wait until I move!