NGA wants a global map for ambient sound

BY SUSAN MILLER APR 30, 2018 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants to map the world’s ambient sounds. The NGA Research Directorate’s Environment and Culture pod wants to “leverage new and emerging technologies to characterize spatial-temporal patterns in sounds and develop corresponding foundational geospatial datasets,” the agency said in a request for information. The same way technology … Read more

Against the effort to delete long-standing but “non-notable” small American manufacturer entries from Wikipedia

Abstract   In the past month (Aug 2015), three decades-old American manufacturer entries have been completely deleted or nominated for deletion from wikipedia. One was unlucky. Two was coincidence. Three is pattern. Has anyone else been targeted?   Content   In the past month (Aug 2015), the entry for the David Berning Company, one of … Read more