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.
Muddiest Point Lecture 9
Digital libraries seem to cover a lot of different websites: University of Pittsburgh online database and second life. Is there terminology to distinguish between the different online libraries?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Assignment 5
http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves.pl?viewshelf=46
I do not know why the links is not working. If you go to the list options for the public. My list is LIS2600 Subject War. If you have any problems please tell me.
I do not know why the links is not working. If you go to the list options for the public. My list is LIS2600 Subject War. If you have any problems please tell me.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Muddiest Point Lecture 8
I did not understand part of assignment 6. How do we download our website into the pitt address?
9th readings
1st reading
The first website seemed to me to be in a foreign language. I understood the idea behind XML but failed to grasp the way XML interacts with the computer. I felt this article did not give enough examples. XML is its own language. I understand it serves the purpose of helping us interact with computers and documents. I guess I would almost call it the computer's language.
2nd reading
The second website provided links to XML programs designed for specific purposes. XML is a standard tool which can than be used for many things. I found the second section on the website to be extremely helpful. It defined XML as a "standardized generalized markup language." This helped clarify my thoughts from the first website.
3rd reading
Wow, this article had a lot of XML code. This article was about comparing HTML and XML. People have been portraying XML as a simple tool that will replace XML. All I can say is all that code did not make XML simple to me. It made it look even more confusing. I did, however, understand the basic concept that HTML and XML interact differently with computers and users. Those differences are the part of the article that confused me.
4th reading
This website reminded me of last week readings. It provides a place in which a person can interact and create code through XML. I find these sites extremely useful because we can experiment without worrying about harming the site. It allows students to interact like we are XML coders. Again, I am an absolute horrible XML coder, but everyone has to start somewhere.
The first website seemed to me to be in a foreign language. I understood the idea behind XML but failed to grasp the way XML interacts with the computer. I felt this article did not give enough examples. XML is its own language. I understand it serves the purpose of helping us interact with computers and documents. I guess I would almost call it the computer's language.
2nd reading
The second website provided links to XML programs designed for specific purposes. XML is a standard tool which can than be used for many things. I found the second section on the website to be extremely helpful. It defined XML as a "standardized generalized markup language." This helped clarify my thoughts from the first website.
3rd reading
Wow, this article had a lot of XML code. This article was about comparing HTML and XML. People have been portraying XML as a simple tool that will replace XML. All I can say is all that code did not make XML simple to me. It made it look even more confusing. I did, however, understand the basic concept that HTML and XML interact differently with computers and users. Those differences are the part of the article that confused me.
4th reading
This website reminded me of last week readings. It provides a place in which a person can interact and create code through XML. I find these sites extremely useful because we can experiment without worrying about harming the site. It allows students to interact like we are XML coders. Again, I am an absolute horrible XML coder, but everyone has to start somewhere.
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