25 July 2026

Las Vegas Strip

Today's Connections was not coming easily to me. There were four words that seemed to be somehow associated with Las Vegas. It turned out that they were associated with "strip" as an adjective or noun. So it was kind of Las Vegas but a bit removed. 

(from the Wikipedia page for Las Vegas Strip)

Sorry if I should have warned about this being a potential spoiler. Or perhaps ... you're welcome.

21 July 2026

FRBR and slug identifiers

300460205 | expressions | multidisciplinary concepts, … Associated Concepts Facet

300460206 | manifestations | multidisciplinary concepts, … Associated Concepts Facet
300460207 | slug identifiers | identification numbers and codes, identifying artifacts, ... Objects Facet

These three terms were in this order in an email announcement of new records in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus. My first attraction was just to the word "slug" so close to two levels of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Then I looked at the slug identifiers record in AAT and now know what to call the "Strings derived from a title or identifier as used in the trailing part of a URL." So I guess it's more like a typesetter's slug than the mollusk.
(orange slug from Wikipedia page)