Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Reading Notes Week 11
David Hawking , Web Search Engines
Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A.
Michael K. Bergman, The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
My internship over the summer at a government agency was my first exposure to OAI – Metadata Harvesting. Although I used the harvester I didn’t truly understand what was technically occurring. Because of these readings it finally made sense, I now think of OAI for what it is; a protocol that submits request to a repository.
Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A.
Michael K. Bergman, The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
My internship over the summer at a government agency was my first exposure to OAI – Metadata Harvesting. Although I used the harvester I didn’t truly understand what was technically occurring. Because of these readings it finally made sense, I now think of OAI for what it is; a protocol that submits request to a repository.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Week 10 - Reading Notes
Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work.
This article made me wonder if library science students are prepared to handle the back end of current and emerging technologies, compared to “information technology” or a “telecommunications” students. Althrough I can use the interace, I’m not sure if I could troubleshoot a “bug” in the system. I guess that is what IT departments are for.
Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative.
Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"
As libraries and technology continue to transform I wonder what new possibilities they hold for the actual concept of a book. Will future generations known what the physical container of a book looks like or will it fade away similar to the card catalog. It is not necessarily a bad thing, just interesting.
This article made me wonder if library science students are prepared to handle the back end of current and emerging technologies, compared to “information technology” or a “telecommunications” students. Althrough I can use the interace, I’m not sure if I could troubleshoot a “bug” in the system. I guess that is what IT departments are for.
Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative.
Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"
As libraries and technology continue to transform I wonder what new possibilities they hold for the actual concept of a book. Will future generations known what the physical container of a book looks like or will it fade away similar to the card catalog. It is not necessarily a bad thing, just interesting.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Week 9 - Reading Notes
Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004.
Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Although XML name space creates a slight complication to XML schema it is very important because it promotes interoperability between different standards (such as Dublin Core, MODS, VRA). The name space lets content creators understand the definitions of elements and attributes from different sets.
Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz
I thought this article was a little confusing because it did not have many examples; but reinforcement is important so the more I read the better my understanding will be.
XML Schema Tutorial
The W3 school tutorial does a better job of explaining XML. I appreciate the layout, examples, and practice.
Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Although XML name space creates a slight complication to XML schema it is very important because it promotes interoperability between different standards (such as Dublin Core, MODS, VRA). The name space lets content creators understand the definitions of elements and attributes from different sets.
Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz
I thought this article was a little confusing because it did not have many examples; but reinforcement is important so the more I read the better my understanding will be.
XML Schema Tutorial
The W3 school tutorial does a better job of explaining XML. I appreciate the layout, examples, and practice.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Week 8 - Reading Notes
W3schools HTML Tutorial, HTML Cheatsheet, W3 School Cascading Style Sheet
These three tutorials/guides/cheat-sheets are fantastic for learning about HTML and CSS. They provide a good base of information, the examples are easily to understand, and the “try it yourself” portion was beneficial. Understanding codes and definitions for me is important because I have a hard time remembering what they stand for; also learning about HTML is an important foundation for XML.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system
This research paper reminds me of the importance for information professionals to have a good understanding of technology and web architecture. These skills are useful for small libraries because staff members wear many hats and updating library content will have to be accomplished by someone. Also your resume will thank you.
These three tutorials/guides/cheat-sheets are fantastic for learning about HTML and CSS. They provide a good base of information, the examples are easily to understand, and the “try it yourself” portion was beneficial. Understanding codes and definitions for me is important because I have a hard time remembering what they stand for; also learning about HTML is an important foundation for XML.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system
This research paper reminds me of the importance for information professionals to have a good understanding of technology and web architecture. These skills are useful for small libraries because staff members wear many hats and updating library content will have to be accomplished by someone. Also your resume will thank you.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Assignment 4: Zotero and CiteULike
http://www.citeulike.org/user/sek80
My three topic areas:
My three topic areas:
- Fashion Design and Copyright
- Diet, Nutrition, and Health
- Higher Education, Cost, and Student Debt
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Reading notes for 10/25
Tyson, Jeff. How Internet Infrastructure Works
I wonder what Vannevar Bush’s opinion would be about the growth of the Internet today and the utilization of his automatic citation linking concept in databases (Scopus and Web of Science).
It is also interesting to see how different entities (MIT, scientific researchers looking to create a network of compatible computers, and the U.S. military) were able to create the necessary components (Domain Name System and TCP/IP) and how Tim Berners-Lee was able to tie the concepts together.
Andrew K. Pace (2004). Dismantling Integrated Library Systems. Library Journal, 129(2), p.34-36.
Interoperability of Integrated Library Systems can be expensive, especially for smaller library consortiums, but is important because of the potential for alienation from a shifting patron base that ties the Internet into many daily functions. The transfer protocol Z39.50 and MARCXML start to bridge those gaps but more must be done to incorporate Internet capabilities.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine.
Google has really been instrumental in transforming the Internet and the expectations of users and the services/applications received from content providers.
I wonder what Vannevar Bush’s opinion would be about the growth of the Internet today and the utilization of his automatic citation linking concept in databases (Scopus and Web of Science).
It is also interesting to see how different entities (MIT, scientific researchers looking to create a network of compatible computers, and the U.S. military) were able to create the necessary components (Domain Name System and TCP/IP) and how Tim Berners-Lee was able to tie the concepts together.
Andrew K. Pace (2004). Dismantling Integrated Library Systems. Library Journal, 129(2), p.34-36.
Interoperability of Integrated Library Systems can be expensive, especially for smaller library consortiums, but is important because of the potential for alienation from a shifting patron base that ties the Internet into many daily functions. The transfer protocol Z39.50 and MARCXML start to bridge those gaps but more must be done to incorporate Internet capabilities.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine.
Google has really been instrumental in transforming the Internet and the expectations of users and the services/applications received from content providers.
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