If a City Is Set on a Height: The Akkadian Omen Series Shumma Alu ina Mele Shakin, vol.2; Tablets 22-40 (2006, PDF)

Treatise (1963–1967) by Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) is perhaps the largest-scale piece of graphic notation ever written. Cardew created Treatise, influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as a combination of graphic elements that could be read symbolically—as language, a code, or notation. However, Cardew published Treatise with no performance instructions, thereby allowing it to be read as graphic art as well. Treatise has inspired questions on the philosophy and aesthetics of notation, and even to the nature of composition and of performance itself. Solutions for the performance of Treatise have been suggested both before its publication—through excerpts from Cardew's diaries—and after, through post-publication performance accounts.

Abstract Searchers on the Web often aim to find key resources about a topic. Finding such results is called topic distillation. Previous research has shown that the use of sources of evidence such as page indegree and URL structure can significantly improve search performance on interconnected collections such as the Web, beyond the use of simple term distribution statistics.

The discipline of epigraphy is based on manually-drawn facsimiles of ancient inscriptions. This procedure may unintentionally mix up documentation and interpretation. This article proposes a less subjective, empirical method for evaluating manually created ostraca facsimiles. It is based on a simple metric used to compare the facsimile to an image of the ostracon. Results of experiments testing the new metric, using Iron Age ostraca from the Levant, are presented. Shortcomings of the new method and possibilities for further enhancements are also discussed.

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is the premier open access research database for astronomy and astrophysics containing over 13 million bibliographic records. These records include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, historical observatory bulletins, and other gray literature. An exceptional feature of ADS if the visualizations it creates showing author networks, overlapping citations, and frequently occurring terminology giving researchers new ways to explore the literature. It is a unique resource that is as easy for a novice to search as it is for skilled researchers to create precise search queries.

The International Standards Organization definition of usability as documented in ISO 9241-11 is for " …specified users… specified goals… particular environments " which implies that usability varies based on those three factors. The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a ten item questionnaire developed to evaluate systems' usability. Consequently, SUS became the scale of choice for measuring usability, broadly applied to various systems including websites. Contemporary websites are visited by a wide range of users for different reasons and from all kinds of environments-can SUS still effectively measure their usability? For a professional organization such as IxDA whose focus is user interface design a heuristic evaluation aided by the Expert Review Checkpoints provides detailed feedback on its website's compliance with contemporary design standards that affect usability.