Comments for Unit 12

November 27, 2010 8:56 PM

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November 27, 2010 6:03 PM

Unit 12 Reading Notes

Week 12 Reading Notes

Unit 12: Social Software (11/29)
Required Readings:

1) Reichardt, R., & Harder, G. (2005). Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries.
    Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3), 105-116.

The article explains a  history of blogging from the first website and discusses options for group projects and reference . Emails still seem to be a preferred method as I know I find following blogs tedious and of little interest to me. Credibility in reference based blogs is questionable. The article also offers web sites for a few commercial sites for creating your own wiki. Although I believe this to be out of date/

.  Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
    C&RL News, April 2007 Vol. 68, No. 4http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm

This article addresses the issues of what a wiki is, a way of sharing information and its use in the classroom.  Two advantages to library instruction wikis:  sharing knowledge and cooperating in creating resources.

3) Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
    February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm

Social tagging allows the user to create their own subject headings. Folksonomy created by library patrons can be problematic but allows for a wider range of dissemination of information.

4) Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html 

Jimmy Wales on the Birth of Wikipedia was a very interesting video.  I never knew about this Web site that I use every day.  It’s made possible by thousand of everyday lay people Wales says, "It isn't perfect, but it's better than you'd expect," and that is how I use  Wikipedia--as a start or a launching point. Wales discusses how the Wikipedia Foundation handles controversies, how they handle quality control, what types of software tools they use, and how they are governed.  It is interesting Wales see that teachers beginning to use Wikipedia, and that he sees free-license textbooks as the future in education.

Muddiest Points for 11/22/10

I have no muddiest points for this weeks class.

Unit 11: Web Search and OAI Protocol (11/22)

 ReadingsNotes:

David Hawking , Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2 IEEE Computer, June 2006.

These articles were interesting gave a summary of how search engines work. Part one discussed how information is indexed and how crawlers work. The second part dealt with algorithms and how the searchers, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are processing information faster than ever before. It is astonishing to me when I think of the magnitude and the capacity to process so quickly through so much information.

 Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A. (2005). Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. Library Trends, 53(4), 576-589.

      The Open Archives Initiative, OAI was designed in 2001 to allow interoperability between various groups; to collect their own metadata and then share it. The idea was to have a standard among institution thereby allowing for the ease of sharing and accessing information.

3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN,  “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html

This article was fascinating to me.  I had never heard of such a thing as ‘The Deep Web”. I feel like the web is an infinite entity and now I learn through this article that the majority of information come from the ‘surface web’ and that the deep web is 500 times larger, most is public accessible, generally has a higher satisfaction rating, and a greater number of linked sites. I am left in awe and wonder.

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Muddiest points for 11/15

I have no muddiest points at this time.

Unit 10: Digital Library, Institutional Repositories (11/15)

 Readings Notes:

    Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html

This was an interesting article to me. I had never heard of DLl-1 and DLl-2 before. The article gave a background for some of the early digital library projects. It went on and talked about the funding and how the internet was relatively new at the time and was instrumental in moving libraries forward into the technological age.

 Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html

This article looked at the relationship between computer scientists and librarians. The ‘rift’ between the two was interesting and can still be relevant today. The bottom line is that the two sciences are integrated to bring clear, concise and relevant information to the user.

Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml

This article discusses many of the issues we have touched on in all of our classes. The amount of information produced from institution is exponential and to organize and store it in a way that is easily retrievable is a monumental task.  Institutions must have or develop repositories that are adequate.

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November 19, 2010 6:14 PM

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Muddiest point:

I do not have any muddiest point for this week.

Unit 9: XML (11/8)

Muddiest point

I can not tell you how scary this is and I always hoped there would never be a need for me to learn it. Everything seems muddy to me at this point and I just hope I can get it enough to complete Assignment 6. Can you show me an example of what I might need to know this for as a librarian?

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November 19, 2010 4:24 PM

November 19, 2010 

Reading Notes

      Martin Bryan.  Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm

 Thank you fellow classmates for helping me find and access this. The article was based on the background of XML and it structure. I was confused though ….what students according to the BURKS would need this? Is this entirely out of date?

 Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html

Once again this article or should I say articles went way over my head. With no background in this it has managed to scare me even more should I need to prove capable. However there are good solid tutorials and did give use examples and I will store this away for future reference.

 Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF

This article had some great examples as well and made the differences between HTML and XML a little clearer. Of course one again for one with no background in this area it is so much to try and grasp all at once.

 XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp

The article like the one we read last week had clear and concise tutorials. I think the basics are here. I hope!