Friday, November 27, 2009
Muddiest Point Lecture 11
I have the same muddiest point as Kristine. You said indexing was a fixed process. Can you go back and change the information? How?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
11th readings
1st reading
I could not find this reading without having to pay for it.
2nd reading
I found this article interesting. I am all for free ways in which libraries can increase their serve to patrons. It would be a way in which libraries can help each other and build on their knowledge. Wikis seem to be a simple way to organize information. As a librarian, organization is a key job description. Also, patrons can easily access the information on a wiki.
3rd reading
Social tagging is a great idea. I am glad Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania have incorporated it into the library. Social tagging is like free cataloging. It helps to organize the information for the common person to find. There are huge cooperation that depend on social tagging like Flickr. I believe more libraries need to jump on the bandwagon. It is a great tool which can be Incorporated with minimum costs.
4th reading
This video with Jimmy Wales was extremely interesting. I did not know that the English sites of wikipedia only make up about 1/3 of the organization. I would have thought it to be bigger than that. In addition, I liked his response to reporters on academics hating wikipedia. His use of his Harvard email was brilliant. After all, I have found the wikipedia sites used for this class extremely helpful.
I could not find this reading without having to pay for it.
2nd reading
I found this article interesting. I am all for free ways in which libraries can increase their serve to patrons. It would be a way in which libraries can help each other and build on their knowledge. Wikis seem to be a simple way to organize information. As a librarian, organization is a key job description. Also, patrons can easily access the information on a wiki.
3rd reading
Social tagging is a great idea. I am glad Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania have incorporated it into the library. Social tagging is like free cataloging. It helps to organize the information for the common person to find. There are huge cooperation that depend on social tagging like Flickr. I believe more libraries need to jump on the bandwagon. It is a great tool which can be Incorporated with minimum costs.
4th reading
This video with Jimmy Wales was extremely interesting. I did not know that the English sites of wikipedia only make up about 1/3 of the organization. I would have thought it to be bigger than that. In addition, I liked his response to reporters on academics hating wikipedia. His use of his Harvard email was brilliant. After all, I have found the wikipedia sites used for this class extremely helpful.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
10th readings
1st reading
This article basically explained how people find websites on the web. It is a crawling process looking for information. Google institutes this algorithm for their search site. I found this article a little bit repetitive from other readings. However, no matter how easy the article makes the process sound. There are billions of websites on the web. The process of crawling is probably more complicated than presented.
2nd reading
OAI is a collaboration database of different people. This is a great example of people being able to connect through the technology. There will of course be some problems because of metadata language barriers, but we are stepping in the right direction. The important thing is collaboration is encourage through open communication that spans across boundaries.
3rd reading
The thing I found most interesting from this article was the pie graph dividing web sites by their content. Topic databases was the biggest group. Libraries only are 2% of the total. This illustrates that libraries have not been the main holders of information for a while. It is more useful to search topic databases for your answer than the library. The topic database cover a wider range of areas. Libraries need to do something to increase their importance. What, I do not know.
This article basically explained how people find websites on the web. It is a crawling process looking for information. Google institutes this algorithm for their search site. I found this article a little bit repetitive from other readings. However, no matter how easy the article makes the process sound. There are billions of websites on the web. The process of crawling is probably more complicated than presented.
2nd reading
OAI is a collaboration database of different people. This is a great example of people being able to connect through the technology. There will of course be some problems because of metadata language barriers, but we are stepping in the right direction. The important thing is collaboration is encourage through open communication that spans across boundaries.
3rd reading
The thing I found most interesting from this article was the pie graph dividing web sites by their content. Topic databases was the biggest group. Libraries only are 2% of the total. This illustrates that libraries have not been the main holders of information for a while. It is more useful to search topic databases for your answer than the library. The topic database cover a wider range of areas. Libraries need to do something to increase their importance. What, I do not know.
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