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.
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"Libraries need to do something to increase their importance. What, I do not know."
ReplyDeleteI think incorporating end-user technology (Twitter, IM, especially in a reference capacity) will help libraries maintain users' interest.
I was surprised that libraries only made up 2% of that pie graph as well. Although, I would argue that the article is a little outdated. Open source software and the advent of digital libraries would probably make that number much larger than 2%.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that it has grown? Or shrunk? I suspect that the web share is probably about the same or maybe even less. I think libraries really missed the boat about a decade ago, and am not sure if they will ever be able to return to their previous spot as information providers.
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