Ooh prize money, D3 those are fun, where you can map a million things/zoom into it
Visualizing All ISBNs
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Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#102> Each pixel represents 2,500 ISBNs. If we have a file for an ISBN, we make that pixel more green. What do you mean by "more green"? I don't see any shaded green. And I presume the black pixels are unregistered ISBNs?
I'd suggest you try a color blindness test. The green is very obvious, especially about 40% of the way down the whole image.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worthless semantics in the context of the mission of the project. What you've described is that the archived content can be mapped to multiple ISBNs. It's clear the only element of concern here is the content itself. The failure to preserve a particular binding or printer's choice of typeface is irrelevant. Failing to recognize this requires an almost malicious level of pedantry
>Worthless semantics in the context of the mission of the project. Hardly worthless... often times, the edition of the book matters as much as the title. Steven King wrote two books named The Stand , and one isn't anything like the other. He pulled a Lucas pretty early on. He's hardly the only author to ever do this. But it's not just authors either. Editors, collectors, translators all make their mark, and give you…
> Steven King wrote two books named The Stand, and one isn't anything like the other
Then those two texts would map to different ISBNS, or perhaps each maps to multiple different ISBNs, it doesn't matter. That some texts exist with the same title but different content is similarly irrelevant.
The content is all that matters. Two different bodies of content, two different entries in the archive. Each entry may map to one or more ISBN numbers.
> the differences actually matter to the rest of us
The only differences that matter are what matters to the archive that made the blog post. Your concerns are for entirely different things, which is fine, but don't say the OP's concerns or initiatives are impossible or ill-suited based on a criteria you're projecting onto them.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Are you saying they actively remove ISBN numbers from scans? No, he‘s playing the pointless „well, actually a scan of a book is a different thing from the book itself“ game.
No, I'm saying that the ISBN doesn't describe titles, it describes editions, and editions matter.
You said:
> From a strict point of view, they've released new editions of these books.
And this is clearly a semantically worthless distinction from the point of view of the archive.
When different editions have different content, archiving those differences in that content may matter (arguably not for simple typographical corrections, printing errors, etc). When different ISBNs have identical content, it is totally irrelevant to the goals of the archive.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worthless semantics in the context of the mission of the project. What you've described is that the archived content can be mapped to multiple ISBNs. It's clear the only element of concern here is the content itself. The failure to preserve a particular binding or printer's choice of typeface is irrelevant. Failing to recognize this requires an almost malicious level of pedantry
A successful archival of one of those ISBNs will light up; four of those ISBNs remain dark. Yet they have that content archived. It means that lighting up the entire grid is not necessary to achieve their goal. Indeed a bigger problem is that it’s much harder to know which areas of the grid are never going to light up because the ISBN has not been used.
This is a separate problem, but a notable one.
Lighting up the entire grid is still the goal, you're describing the problem of ensuring the right set of squares is illuminated for each piece of archived content. One is a problem of archiving the content, the other is a problem of bookkeeping.
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#106I see that bounty at the bottom, so tossing away my chances here, but this visualization is just asking to be mapped onto a Hilbert Curve. [0] When you "stripe" the data like this, points that are sorted close together could end up pretty far apart, since a distance in the Y axis skips an entire row of data as you move down, rather than a distance in the X axis which is 1-to-1 with the source data. If you map it onto…
What property makes the Hilbert curve desirable compared to, say, a snake pattern, with which neighbouring ISBNs are also neighbours in the visualisation?
The worry I have with Hilbert curves is that they make the result look like there are distinct "squares" of data [0] when really this is just an artifact of how Hilbert curves work. In that sense, the current visualization is more useful, because it's straightforward to identify the location of each country in it.
[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakubcerveny/gilbert/maste...
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The problem with such judgment is that they are subjective and subject to biases that change over time. Almost every scrap of information from ancient civilizations is considered priceless at this point because so few is left of it. Anything from obscene graffiti, shopping lists, personal messages, etc. All of it. Many autocratic regimes editorialize and censure all forms of publications. But even in the US, which is…
> you now have states like Florida forcing changes to literature works and banning books entirely for religious and ideological reasons.
This is not honest. They're not banning any books, they are stopping school teachers from forcing certain books on children. The difference is immense.
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#108It appears that the IP of the server is blocked in the EU. I get this from my ISP (Ziggo, in the Netherlands): Deze website is geblokkeerd Europese sancties De Raad van Europa heeft besloten dat de websites van RT (voorheen Russia Today) en Sputnik News niet meer mogen worden doorgegeven. De website die je probeert te bezoeken, valt onder deze Europese sanctie. VodafoneZiggo is verplicht de sanctie uit te voeren en h…
No issue in Finland.
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#109Anyone else seeing this? "This server couldn't prove that it's annas-archive.org; its security certificate is from *.hs.llnwd.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection."
I get a valid-looking cert issued by Google Trust Services. Finnish ISP's DNS.
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#110What is Anna's archive and why is it blocked by law enforcement in several European countries (EU + UK)?